Gravity Without Metric Gravitons: A Structural Argument from RealClock Quantum Mechanics

This paper develops RealClock Quantum Mechanics, a reformulation of quantum theory in which phase is a physical internal clock rotation generated by J(x) and transported by an internal gauge connection Γμ(x). This structure yields a minimal quantization rule: matter and internal phase transport must be quantized, while external spacetime geometry remains classical. Within this framework, gravitational waves arise as classical geometric disturbances, and no fundamental graviton quanta are required unless future experiments force that extension.