  Interactions with ordinary matter of a flux of high-speed uncharged dark
matter particles pervasively present in space are examined. In this model, we
find that the property of matter that we designate as mass becomes a measure of
the interaction cross section of ordinary matter with the flux of dark matter.
  From this model emerge both a flux-mediated attractive inverse-square force
between particles of ordinary matter as well as a characteristic
nondeterministic behavior of ordinary matter that originates from statistical
variations in the flux. The occurrence of effects similar to gravitational
phenomena and effects similar to quantum phenomena in this model may enable a
straightforward examination of the convergence of gravitational physics and
quantum mechanics.
