Dense Matter Organization and Emergent Gravity: An Entropy-Based Unification of General Relativity and Quantum Information

We present a conceptual framework linking gravitational curvature to entropy gradients arising from dense matter organization, grounded in recent theoretical advances in entropic gravity and validated against observational data from LIGO gravitational-wave events (p. 1). Our central hypothesis posits that as matter concentrates at extreme densities, the relative entropy between the quantum information encoded in matter fields and the ambient spacetime metric increases sharply, driving emergent gravitational curvature through an entropy-minimization principle (p. 1). Using public gravitational-wave data from GW150914 (binary black holes) and GW170817 (binary neutron stars), we demonstrate that horizon entropy increases correlate with matter density compression, supporting an informational interpretation of gravity rather than purely geometric one (p. 1). This work bridges general relativity, quantum mechanics, and thermodynamics, suggesting gravity may be an emergent phenomenon tied to quantum information organization in matter-spacetime systems (pp. 1, 10).

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-01-26
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18381752
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Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
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Dense Matter Organization and Emergent Gravity: An Entropy-Based Unification of General Relativity and Quantum Information

Mathew Ward
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
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Dense Matter Organization and Emergent Gravity: An Entropy-Based Unification of General Relativity and Quantum Information

Mathew Ward
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Abstract

We present a conceptual framework linking gravitational curvature to entropy gradients arising from dense matter organization, grounded in recent theoretical advances in entropic gravity and validated against observational data from LIGO gravitational-wave events (p. 1). Our central hypothesis posits that as matter concentrates at extreme densities, the relative entropy between the quantum information encoded in matter fields and the ambient spacetime metric increases sharply, driving emergent gravitational curvature through an entropy-minimization principle (p. 1). Using public gravitational-wave data from GW150914 (binary black holes) and GW170817 (binary neutron stars), we demonstrate that horizon entropy increases correlate with matter density compression, supporting an informational interpretation of gravity rather than purely geometric one (p. 1). This work bridges general relativity, quantum mechanics, and thermodynamics, suggesting gravity may be an emergent phenomenon tied to quantum information organization in matter-spacetime systems (pp. 1, 10).

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