Space, Time, and the Information Bang: Emergent Spacetime in the Holographic Ledger Framework

Space and time are the two most fundamental concepts in physics — and the two least understood. No consensus exists on what time is, and competing theories of spacetime describe incompatible structures. This paper proposes a reframing within the Holographic Ledger (HL) framework: both space and time are emergent structures arising from the irreversible commitment of information. Time is the ordered sequence of commit events; space is the commit-correlation structure between physical systems. Neither is a fundamental background. Applied to its cosmological limit, this architecture yields the Information Bang (Informationsknall): the structural proposal that the Big Bang was the Ur-Commit — the first irreversible information event, from which space, time, and thermodynamic history subsequently emerged. Within the HL framework, this structurally displaces Penrose’s entropy fine-tuning problem: the pre-commit initial state has zero von Neumann entropy by construction, shifting the question from “why was entropy low?” to “why did the first commit occur?” — the latter remaining an open problem explicitly flagged here. The commit process is proposed to span a spectrum from the Landauer cold limit at biological temperatures (k_B T_bio ln 2) to the Planck-energy hot limit of the Ur-Commit (k_B T_Planck ln 2) — a structural conjecture across thirty orders of magnitude in temperature. Three empirical anchors follow from this architecture: a thermodynamic scaling consistency conjecture across the commit spectrum with one confirmed laboratory endpoint (F1); a pre-commit entropy signature in the CMB large-scale power anomalies, theoretically grounded here and linked to the GRID-CMB analysis programme and Paper G (F2); and entropy-dependent spatial discreteness at the Planck scale, distinguishable in principle from loop quantum gravity and causal set theory (F3). All claims are structural proposals within the HL preprint programme; open problems are stated explicitly throughout.