Why we cannot feel the field
The Eternal Consonance presses on everything equally from every side. Like a deep-sea fish in the ocean, we are built to that pressure and cannot feel it.
If the Eternal Consonance is real and under immense tension, why does no one feel it? RSI answers with an image from the ocean.
A deep-sea fish lives under thousands of pounds of water pressure. It does not feel crushed, because the pressure presses equally from every direction and the fish's own structure has adjusted completely to it. Bring the fish to the surface and the pressure becomes catastrophically apparent.
The medium works the same way. Its 0.73 N tension presses inward on every knot of matter, from every direction, at every moment. What the undisturbed medium does not produce is a difference in force from one side of an object to the other, and differences are what instruments detect. Our instruments are made of the same medium they would be measuring, so they are already balanced against it. What we can measure are departures from that balance: gradients, asymmetries, disturbances. In RSI's account, those disturbances are everything physics has ever observed.
The narrative stresses that this is not the Victorian Aether. It is a universal continuum very similar to a superfluid. Superfluids are real: helium-4 cooled below 2.17 kelvin flows without friction, climbs the walls of its container, and organizes its rotation into quantized vortices. RSI holds that the Eternal Consonance belongs to that same class of medium, operating at cosmic scale.
From The Eternal Consonance (narrative), VI. The Nature of the Field. Read the related section of the paper
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