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=== You asked for compatibility with older models (Hooke, Kelvin/Bjerknes, Le Sage, Alfvén). Short map: ===
* Bjerknes / Kelvin pulsation analogies (hydrodynamic attraction from phase coherence): these are very close in spirit to QAT: pulsating spheres in a medium attract if in-phase. QAT’s idea that spherical wavefronts and phase coherence can create attractive tendencies maps naturally to that picture. (Historical references: Bjerknes, Kelvin.) Wikipedia<ref>{{cite web|title=Wikipedia|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_explanations_of_gravitation|publisher=en.wikipedia.org|access-date=2025-12-16}}</ref>
* Le Sage / corpuscular push gravity: conceptually similar (particles hitting and shadowing cause net push) but historically rejected because of runaway heating and energy bookkeeping problems. QAT differs: its entities are photons and the mechanism is exchange (absorb/re-emit) not a net push with inelastic loss. Still, any push/corpuscle style account must carefully handle energy conservation and entropy (Maxwell’s objections remain a warning). Wikisource<ref>{{cite web|title=Wikisource|url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Corpuscular_Theories_of_Gravitation|publisher=en.wikisource.org|access-date=2025-12-16}}</ref>
* Alfvén / plasma cosmology & cellular structure of space: Alfvén’s ideas about plasma currents forming large-scale structure and filamentary/cellular patterns are congenial to the QAT emphasis that plasma-phase geometry plays a role at large scales (charge flows, sheets, double layers). QAT’s conformal geometry + boundary shells naturally extends to plasma cells where many shells act coherently. (Alfvén did not propose QAT-like micro-mechanism, but his emphasis on electromagnetic structure at cosmic scales is compatible.) Lindau Nobel Mediatheque<ref>{{cite web|title=Lindau Nobel Mediatheque|url=https://mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/recordings/31429/how-space-research-changes-our-view-of-the-universe-1982|publisher=Lindau Nobel Mediatheque|access-date=2025-12-16}}</ref>Wikipedia<ref>{{cite web|title=Wikipedia|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannes_Alfv%C3%A9n|publisher=en.wikipedia.org|access-date=2025-12-16}}</ref>

Bottom line: several historical mechanical/EM analogues echo QAT’s spherical/phase-coherence origin for attraction, but the classical versions failed on thermodynamic/energy bookkeeping grounds. QAT must address those bookkeeping issues explicitly (energy flow, entropy production) to be viable. Your note about the third law / absolute zero ties into this: any exchange picture must show energy is conserved and does not create impossible heat fluxes.