VES: Informational Field Theory and Emergent Spacetime

This monograph develops VES (Viscous Emergent Spacetime), a unified informationalframework in which spacetime, particles, forces, and cosmology emerge from a fundamental quantum informational network. Building on Wheeler’s "it from bit" paradigm andmodern developments in entropic gravity, analog condensed matter systems, and entanglement geometry, we construct a hierarchical theory with information as the primarysubstance.Key results include: (i) a thermodynamic derivation of the Einstein field equationsfrom coarse-graining and dissipation of an informational fluid, yielding gravity as thegeometric imprint of information loss; (ii) an interpretation of particles as topologicallyquantized vortices in the informational fluid, with mass from core energy and spin fromcirculation; (iii) emergence of gauge fields (U(1), SU(2), SU(3)) from local phase symmetries of multi-component informational fields, with the Higgs mechanism as informationalcondensation; (iv) unification of dark matter and dark energy via a single scalar fieldwhose quadratic potential produces pressureless oscillations and whose flat floor yieldslate-time acceleration, naturally addressing the σ8 tension through bulk viscosity; and(v) a two-layer ontology in which the fundamental quantum network (with entanglementdefined distances d ∼ − ln E) projects to emergent spacetime, resolving EPR non-localityand grounding black-hole entropy.The framework synthesizes ideas from Jacobson’s horizon thermodynamics, Volovik’ssuperfluid analogs, Van Raamsdonk’s entanglement geometry, and topological field theoryinto a coherent informational paradigm. Extensive Python simulations illustrate key concepts: informational diffusion and coarse-graining, quantized vortex formation, emergentgeometry from entanglement networks, and viscous cosmological dynamics with testablepredictions (H(z) deviations, σ8 suppression, fuzzy dark matter cores).While speculative, VES offers an internally consistent, mathematically explicit, andcomputationally explorable candidate for a unified theory of fundamental physics.