Notes on a Common Beat

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Notes on a Common Beat

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01-2025
Matter and Gravity from Entanglement in the Thick Present: A Summary of the Present Quantum Gravity Framework
download the Published Paper (Int. J. Quant. Inf., 2026) - Preprint v1 (Zenodo) - Preprint v0 (OSF)
Contribution presented at Quantum2025

Abstract
We introduce Present Quantum Gravity (PQG), a novel framework grounded in an informational ontology in which only the present instant exists. The Present is described as a quantum memory updating in discrete ticks, encoding entanglement as closed loop structures in a Wick-rotated, relational space. Building on time-symmetric quantum mechanics, holographic principles, and entropic gravity, rest mass is reinterpreted as information hidden through temporal entanglement, and gravity emerges from a local symmetry breaking of spatial entanglement to compensate for hidden information. From this informational asymmetry, we recover the Newtonian potential and weak-field gravitational time dilations, interpreted as reductions in accessible degrees of freedom. PQG is conceptually compatible with established interpretations, while providing predictions that are in principle falsifiable. Limitations, such as the absence of a field theoretic dynamics or the full Einstein equations, and research avenues, including connections to Einstein–Cartan theory, are discussed at the end of the paper. This work synthesizes the status of the framework as presented at Quantum2025 (Torino, IT), emphasizing its conceptual advances, experimental proposals, and roadmap towards a fully dynamical theory, while leaving the details to the referenced literature.

06-2023
Time as a Quantum Memory
Contribution presented at QG2023 (Spacetime from Information Sampling) and at PAFT2024 (Memoro Ergo Sum)
Download the Preprint v1 (Zenodo) - Preprint v0 (OSF)
video presentation available on YouTube

Abstract
We propose an operational reconstruction of Special Relativity from an information-theoretic constraint, without presupposing a background spacetime manifold. We adopt a presentist ontology, in which only an atomic present instant exists. Within the multi-time-step and process-matrix formalisms, we interpret the Present as a quantum memory circuit which encodes entanglement information. Observers, modeled as massive particles, are treated as non-local and acausal processes in the Present memory, capable of accumulating spatial and temporal entanglement resources in their internal degrees of freedom. We postulate that the information capacity accessible within a particle’s causal cone scales with the cone’s surface area and decomposes across the two entanglement resources. From this capacity constraint, we recover proper time as an observer’s subsampling of the global update cycles induced by the information-theoretic cost of its non-locality. The construction is purely kinematic and identifies a minimal set of assumptions under which Special Relativity follows from an information-capacity constraint. This result shows the compatibility of Presentism with Relativity and suggests that spacetime emerges from quantum information.

09-2022
The Universe as a Telecommunication Network
Contribution presented at DICE2022
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 2023, 2533 012045 - DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/2533/1/012045

Abstract
We suggest a framework that models the universe as a Telecommunication Network, with several layers of abstraction, characteristic protocols and encoding schemes. We first define a fundamental network of atoms of space (Present foliation) as a toy model of the most elementary abstraction on spacetime. We describe a protocol to encode the information of distance, non-locality, and entanglement among these nodes. In this framework, we then conjecture the emergence of fermions from gradients of entanglement in the foliation, encoded as momenta in the fundamental network. We propose an interpretation of the asymmetry and of the half spin of matter in the model, towards a description of fermions as independent Network Entities, adjacent possible complexities from the most fundamental abstraction. We conclude our contribution considering several parallels between Nature and nodes in a layered network. The proposed framework seems a promising path to describe the emergence of a universe from information through the language of networks. We believe this perspective can connect several areas of research and deserves further investigation.

03-2022
The potential of a thick present through undefined causality and non-locality
Entropy 2022, 24(3), 410; doi.org/10.3390/e24030410

Abstract
This paper elaborates on the interpretation of time and entanglement, offering insights into the possible ontological nature of information in the emergence of spacetime, towards a quantum description of gravity. We first investigate different perspectives on time and identify in the idea of a "thick present" the only element of reality needed to describe evolution, differences, and relations. The thick present is connected to a spacetime information "sampling rate", and it is intended as a time symmetric potential bounded between a causal past of irreversible events and a still open future. From this potential, spacetime emerges in each instant as a space-like foliation (in a description based on imaginary paths). In the second part, we analyze undefined causal orders to understand how their potential could persist along the thick present instants. Thanks to a C-NOT logic and the concept of an imaginary time, we derive a description of entanglement as the potential of a logically consistent open choice among imaginary paths. We then conceptually map the imaginary paths identified in the entanglement of the undefined orders to Closed Time-like Curves (CTC) in the thick present. Considering a universe described through information, CTC are interpreted as "memory loops", elementary structures encoding the information potential related to the entanglement in both time and space, manifested as undefined causality and non-locality in the emerging foliation. We conclude by suggesting a possible extension of the introduced concepts in a holographic perspective.

03-2021
Notes on a common beat
Paper that develops the philosopical interpretation;
latest version available for download from the Open Science Framework

Abstract
The following essay would like to elaborate on a possible “philosophy of efficiency” connected to the contribution “Implementation model of a universe based on information” (a more technical paper from the same author proposing a framework for Quantum Gravity, available at doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/9a26r). The insights derived from the interpretation of spacetime considered focus on causality, free will and efficiency, and promote collaboration, empathy and trust. Even if some of the concepts presented are common to several cultures at different level of abstraction, this paper does not pretend to have scientific value nor suppose any reference to religion. The scope is just to draft a high level parallel between the description of the Universe proposed in the scientific contribution and a more philosophical interpretation of life, inspired by efficiency and based on the memory of a common beat.

02-2021
Implementation model of a universe based on information
Paper that develops the elementary physics interpretation;
latest version available for download from the Open Science Framework

Abstract
Starting from an Information and Communication Technologies perspective focused on implementability, we propose a model of the universe based on a memory network. Spacetime is described through finite and discrete information of non-local spatial correlations elaborated on a discrete processing cycle (as a thick present). The need for logical consistency in the information is connected to a relativity in respect to global scales of reference in an interconnected universe. The quantized correlation potential (from which space emerges as imaginary in each cycle) is summarized in a fundamental causal memory with a log-perspective through a Dual-Tree Complex Wavelet Transform and persists along the evolution cycles as closed time-like curves (CTC) within the thick present considered. CTC, described as memory-loops, are introduced to assure logical consistency of the information potential. We then propose an interpretation of elementary particles connected to a holographic description, extended in the model to ER=EPR=CTC. Finally, we identify a physical implementation of the model in black holes, clarifying how fundamental constants could be defined in the spacetime patch emerging beyond the singularity and proposing quantum fields as wavelets along the radius. Additional elaborations on both metric and space expansion in the proposed model are provided in the dedicated Annexes.

09-2019 Conjectures on Spacetime
First scientific contribution; presented at the TM2019 INAF conference
docs at the INAF Archive and on youtube

09-2018 oudeis FirsTk1ss
a bag full of insights and inspirations on everything and nothing
download the draft as pdf

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01-2025	Matter and Gravity from Entanglement in the Thick Present: A Summary of the Present Quantum Gravity Framework download the Published Paper (Int. J. Quant. Inf., 2026) - Preprint v1 (Zenodo) - Preprint v0 (OSF) Contribution presented at Quantum2025 Abstract We introduce Present Quantum Gravity (PQG), a novel framework grounded in an informational ontology in which only the present instant exists. The Present is described as a quantum memory updating in discrete ticks, encoding entanglement as closed loop structures in a Wick-rotated, relational space. Building on time-symmetric quantum mechanics, holographic principles, and entropic gravity, rest mass is reinterpreted as information hidden through temporal entanglement, and gravity emerges from a local symmetry breaking of spatial entanglement to compensate for hidden information. From this informational asymmetry, we recover the Newtonian potential and weak-field gravitational time dilations, interpreted as reductions in accessible degrees of freedom. PQG is conceptually compatible with established interpretations, while providing predictions that are in principle falsifiable. Limitations, such as the absence of a field theoretic dynamics or the full Einstein equations, and research avenues, including connections to Einstein–Cartan theory, are discussed at the end of the paper. This work synthesizes the status of the framework as presented at Quantum2025 (Torino, IT), emphasizing its conceptual advances, experimental proposals, and roadmap towards a fully dynamical theory, while leaving the details to the referenced literature.
06-2023	Time as a Quantum Memory Contribution presented at QG2023 (Spacetime from Information Sampling) and at PAFT2024 (Memoro Ergo Sum) Download the Preprint v1 (Zenodo) - Preprint v0 (OSF) video presentation available on YouTube Abstract We propose an operational reconstruction of Special Relativity from an information-theoretic constraint, without presupposing a background spacetime manifold. We adopt a presentist ontology, in which only an atomic present instant exists. Within the multi-time-step and process-matrix formalisms, we interpret the Present as a quantum memory circuit which encodes entanglement information. Observers, modeled as massive particles, are treated as non-local and acausal processes in the Present memory, capable of accumulating spatial and temporal entanglement resources in their internal degrees of freedom. We postulate that the information capacity accessible within a particle’s causal cone scales with the cone’s surface area and decomposes across the two entanglement resources. From this capacity constraint, we recover proper time as an observer’s subsampling of the global update cycles induced by the information-theoretic cost of its non-locality. The construction is purely kinematic and identifies a minimal set of assumptions under which Special Relativity follows from an information-capacity constraint. This result shows the compatibility of Presentism with Relativity and suggests that spacetime emerges from quantum information.
09-2022	The Universe as a Telecommunication Network Contribution presented at DICE2022 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 2023, 2533 012045 - DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/2533/1/012045 Abstract We suggest a framework that models the universe as a Telecommunication Network, with several layers of abstraction, characteristic protocols and encoding schemes. We first define a fundamental network of atoms of space (Present foliation) as a toy model of the most elementary abstraction on spacetime. We describe a protocol to encode the information of distance, non-locality, and entanglement among these nodes. In this framework, we then conjecture the emergence of fermions from gradients of entanglement in the foliation, encoded as momenta in the fundamental network. We propose an interpretation of the asymmetry and of the half spin of matter in the model, towards a description of fermions as independent Network Entities, adjacent possible complexities from the most fundamental abstraction. We conclude our contribution considering several parallels between Nature and nodes in a layered network. The proposed framework seems a promising path to describe the emergence of a universe from information through the language of networks. We believe this perspective can connect several areas of research and deserves further investigation.
03-2022	The potential of a thick present through undefined causality and non-locality Entropy 2022, 24(3), 410; doi.org/10.3390/e24030410 Abstract This paper elaborates on the interpretation of time and entanglement, offering insights into the possible ontological nature of information in the emergence of spacetime, towards a quantum description of gravity. We first investigate different perspectives on time and identify in the idea of a "thick present" the only element of reality needed to describe evolution, differences, and relations. The thick present is connected to a spacetime information "sampling rate", and it is intended as a time symmetric potential bounded between a causal past of irreversible events and a still open future. From this potential, spacetime emerges in each instant as a space-like foliation (in a description based on imaginary paths). In the second part, we analyze undefined causal orders to understand how their potential could persist along the thick present instants. Thanks to a C-NOT logic and the concept of an imaginary time, we derive a description of entanglement as the potential of a logically consistent open choice among imaginary paths. We then conceptually map the imaginary paths identified in the entanglement of the undefined orders to Closed Time-like Curves (CTC) in the thick present. Considering a universe described through information, CTC are interpreted as "memory loops", elementary structures encoding the information potential related to the entanglement in both time and space, manifested as undefined causality and non-locality in the emerging foliation. We conclude by suggesting a possible extension of the introduced concepts in a holographic perspective.
03-2021	Notes on a common beat Paper that develops the philosopical interpretation; latest version available for download from the Open Science Framework Abstract The following essay would like to elaborate on a possible “philosophy of efficiency” connected to the contribution “Implementation model of a universe based on information” (a more technical paper from the same author proposing a framework for Quantum Gravity, available at doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/9a26r). The insights derived from the interpretation of spacetime considered focus on causality, free will and efficiency, and promote collaboration, empathy and trust. Even if some of the concepts presented are common to several cultures at different level of abstraction, this paper does not pretend to have scientific value nor suppose any reference to religion. The scope is just to draft a high level parallel between the description of the Universe proposed in the scientific contribution and a more philosophical interpretation of life, inspired by efficiency and based on the memory of a common beat.
02-2021	Implementation model of a universe based on information Paper that develops the elementary physics interpretation; latest version available for download from the Open Science Framework Abstract Starting from an Information and Communication Technologies perspective focused on implementability, we propose a model of the universe based on a memory network. Spacetime is described through finite and discrete information of non-local spatial correlations elaborated on a discrete processing cycle (as a thick present). The need for logical consistency in the information is connected to a relativity in respect to global scales of reference in an interconnected universe. The quantized correlation potential (from which space emerges as imaginary in each cycle) is summarized in a fundamental causal memory with a log-perspective through a Dual-Tree Complex Wavelet Transform and persists along the evolution cycles as closed time-like curves (CTC) within the thick present considered. CTC, described as memory-loops, are introduced to assure logical consistency of the information potential. We then propose an interpretation of elementary particles connected to a holographic description, extended in the model to ER=EPR=CTC. Finally, we identify a physical implementation of the model in black holes, clarifying how fundamental constants could be defined in the spacetime patch emerging beyond the singularity and proposing quantum fields as wavelets along the radius. Additional elaborations on both metric and space expansion in the proposed model are provided in the dedicated Annexes.
09-2019	Conjectures on Spacetime First scientific contribution; presented at the TM2019 INAF conference docs at the INAF Archive and on youtube
09-2018	oudeis FirsTk1ss a bag full of insights and inspirations on everything and nothing download the draft as pdf

Notes on a Common Beat

just another interpretation of the nature of time see also OrcID

just another interpretation of the nature of time
see also OrcID