Could Gravity Emerge from Computational Latency?
The curvature of space imagined as a computational delay, where information itself shapes the pull we call gravity. Could gravity be the tug of a busy universe catching up with itself, a gentle pull created by delays in how reality updates information? I want to pose the question in plain words because plain words carry weight. We live under gravity. We measure it, plan for it, push against it, and trust it to be there tomorrow. Newton gave us a clean rule about masses and distance. Einstein gave us a deeper picture about curved spacetime. Both pictures work, and both deserve respect. Yet they leave a simple “why” on the table. Why does gravity exist at all? Today, a growing group of researchers is answering that “why” with a bold idea. They say gravity might not be fundamental. It might appear when the universe processes information with finite speed and limited bandwidth. If the world behaves like a computation, and every computation takes time, then lag is not an accident. Lag...
