Rethinking Potential Energy and Time: Conservation through True Space

This paper presents an extension of the Continuity Drive Hypothesis, proposing a foundational shift in our understanding of potential energy and time. It challenges the existence of potential energy as a separate entity and reinterprets it as a manifestation of kinetic energy conserved through dense space, referred to here as "true space." Rejecting spacetime as a necessary framework, this hypothesis proposes that mass is dense space, and the continuity of spatial density governs motion and conservation laws. The paper introduces a novel interpretation of the law of conservation of energy as the conservation of kinetic energy through true space, suggesting that perceived potential energy results from changes in spatial density. Time is framed not as an absolute dimension, but as an emergent property—an internal rate of motion of matter—altered by the need to conserve motion in regions of varying density. The paper thus aims to reconceptualize the interplay between mass, motion, and time in a way that is continuous, dynamic, and rooted in spatial structure rather than classical forces or fields.