Relational Information Elasticity (RIE)
I came up with a theory that reconciles QM and GR.
Core postulate:
Space and time are not fundamental. Instead, the universe consists of a vast network of elementary "information relationships." Every relationship has a finite capacity to exchange quantum information. Geometry emerges from the pattern of these relationships. Gravity is not a force or a field in the traditional sense—it is the large-scale elastic response of the information network when its communication capacity becomes unevenly distributed.
Quantum mechanics:
Each elementary relationship has a complex probability amplitude. Quantum superposition occurs because information can propagate simultaneously through many alternative paths in the network. Interference is simply constructive or destructive overlap of these network paths. Interference is simply constructive or destructive overlap of these network paths. Entanglement means two regions share an unusually dense set of direct informational relationships rather than being connected only through ordinary geometric distance. Distance therefore becomes an emergent statistical property rather than a fundamental one.
General relativity:
Matter locally consumes network communication capacity. Where capacity is heavily occupied, the network becomes harder for additional information to traverse. Observers interpret this slowing as time dilation, spacetime curvature, length contraction. Instead of saying mass curves spacetime, the hypothesis says mass redistributes information capacity, and geometry is our macroscopic description of that redistribution. The familiar curved metric would emerge as an effective approximation.
Why gravity appears classical:
Quantum fluctuations continually rearrange tiny portions of the network. However, because every region connects to trillions upon trillions of neighboring relationships, fluctuations average together. This averaging naturally produces smooth geometry. Classical spacetime is therefore analogous to how a smooth fluid emerges from individual molecules.
Black holes:
A black hole isn't a place where space is curved infinitely. Instead, it's an area where all the local information it can hold is completely filled up. There's no more room for new, independent information to be added. The event horizon is like a border that separates the area where information can still flow freely from the area where it's all saturated. When Hawking radiation happens, it's because the network is slowly changing itself to reduce the amount of information it's holding. The important thing to remember is that information is never actually lost - it's just rearranged into new connections within the network. Think of it like a big library where all the books are filled up, but then someone comes and rearranges the shelves, so the information is still there, just in a different order.
The Big Bang:
The Big Bang was not the beginning of space. It was the beginning of network expansion. Initially nearly every information relationship connected to nearly every other. As the network evolved, specialization increased, causing effective spatial dimensions to emerge. Cosmic expansion corresponds to continual rewiring that increases average separation between informational neighborhoods.
Measurement problem:
The idea of wavefunction collapse isn't really a basic part of how things work. Instead, what happens is that when a system interacts with a bigger environment, one possible way that the system can be set up becomes much more stable than the other options. So, the collapse is more like a shift in how stable the system is, rather than something that happens suddenly and physically. It's all about the system's network becoming more stable in one way, rather than a big change happening all at once.
Possible mathematical direction:
Very schematically, Geometry=F(information capacity distribution) rather than Geometry=F(stress-energy) with stress-energy itself emerging from the same underlying informational dynamics.
Why I came here: 1. I am looking for a potential strong mathematical direction that I could undertake to support my theory. 2. I am looking for ways to make my idea testable. 3. I want general feedback.
Thank you.