Reconstructing Dark-Matter Inference via STT-CR: An Empirical Calibration Law for Low-Acceleration Dynamics

This paper re-examines dark-matter inference within the auditing framework of Sequential Time Theory-Critical Review (STT-CR) and then pushes that audit toward a physically testable low-acceleration phenomenology. Rather than treating the flat rotation curves of galaxies as immediate proof of an additional unseen ontological component, I first localize the discrepancy as a defect in the calibration structure connecting baryonic reconstruction and kinematic observation. I then introduce a dimensionless calibration factor relating the observer-reconstructed velocity to the locally operative dynamical velocity. Once the empirical radial acceleration relation (RAR) is adopted as the primary datum, the effective calibration law can be reconstructed directly, yielding the standard Newtonian limit at high acceleration, the quarter-power scaling in the deep low-acceleration regime, and the baryonic Tully-Fisher relation. To make the proposal physically viable, I further extend the model to an environment-sensitive form, kappa(g_N, g_ext), and formulate its empirical burden in terms of Solar-System consistency, wide-binary discrimination, and galaxy-scale rotation-curve fits. The claim advanced here is narrower than a full alternative cosmology. Its contribution is to show that, within STT-CR, the route from discrepancy to dark matter is not audit-neutral, and that a falsifiable calibration-law interpretation exists at least at the level of low-acceleration galactic dynamics.