This research expands Tenev’s Cosmic Fabric Model (CFM) to include the large strain and inelastic cases which provide new insights into anomalies of General Relativity. CFM considers an ethereal universe (the "cosmic fabric") and applies continuum mechanics at the galactic and cosmic length scales to effectively recover equations from General Relativity where the Laplacian of strain corresponds to the Laplacian of the gravitational potential in the weak field approximation. While still at the very beginning of the research, this project explores several possible leads related to the inelastic behavior of the fabric. (A) With a Poisson ratio of 1, the fabric likely has a fibrous substructure on the lowest length scales, and inelastic strain will likely cause an aligned texture of the fibers which could lead to predictable behaviors of the fabric. (B) The thermodynamic behavior of the fabric may lead to explanations of why matter bends spacetime: if matter-energy induces a thermodynamic response from the fabric, causing it to soften and bend, then matter-matter interactions would propagate at a slower rate and the energy state of the fabric near gravitational wells may produce an acceleration of mass, essentially producing the lapse rate and kinematic effects observed by General Relativity. (C) If the cosmic fabric exhibits inelastic behavior due to cosmic stretching or damage, then anisotropic structure would be expected, including possibly the stretching and spins of macro-scale grains which may offer one explanation for the filament structure of galaxies observed at the higher length scales as well as possibly the generation of some or all black holes. Cosmic and functional structure, both macro- and micro-, implies design from God, the Great Engineer of the universe.
