In General Relativity, matter curves spacetime through the stress-energy tensor. In the present framework, matter reduces the resolution of observable space by consuming free fabric. These are two descriptions of the same phenomenon: the presence of a composite structure makes the surrounding space less addressable, which an internal observer reads as curvature. Gravity is not a force acting on a background geometry; it is the geometric consequence of information being redistributed from fabric to structure.
The cosmological constant problem asks why Λ is so small relative to the vacuum energy predicted by quantum field theory. In the present framework, Λ is not a property of the vacuum — it is the fraction of the bit budget that is currently unbound. Its value at any cosmic epoch is determined by how much matter has formed and how much has decayed. The problem dissolves: there is no vacuum energy to cancel, only a fabric density that evolves with the entropy of the universe.
The bit-flip parameter t is not an external clock. It is the internal measure of entropy increase established in Papers I–IV. The expansion history of the universe is parameterised by how far the system has progressed from zero entropy toward full saturation, not by an absolute time coordinate. This is consistent with the static, timeless picture of Paper I: the entire expansion history is encoded in n, and t is the internal observer’s reading of their position along the entropy gradient.