is the sound of vinyl due to the physical process of the turntable?


Same here. I do not own a turntable, however, if the sound of vinyl comes from the physical act of the record on the turntable why can't I transfer digital audio or at least emulate that process to digitally recreate that sound? I remember back in the 1970's you had 45rpm records on the back of cereal boxes and they were not vinyl, however they sounded good why can't I do that myself?
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is it possible to make a dummy record like the nothing record (1978) that was cut with no music just the blank grooves and play that while i run digital audio somehow through the stylus cartridge
No. The problem is that digital itself has artifacts called 'aliasing' which the digital industry does not like to acknowledge is actually distortion. In the analog world this form of distortion is a kind of intermodulation known as 'inharmonic distortion'. The ear is keenly sensitive to it! as its mostly higher frequencies. This is part of the brightness of digital.
The LP actually has wider bandwidth, being good in playback and record to at least 42KHz (my cutter system is bandwidth limited at that frequency to help reduce the likelihood of damage to the cutter; it can actually go higher). Almost any cartridge these days can go that high. While there isn't much information up there (mostly harmonics if anything) this does help to reduce phase shift.