Gravity as Collapse: The Emergence of Determinism from the Quantum Future
“Quantum reality manifests as a field of probabilistic futures; interaction induces collapse into the present, and the resulting geometry of collapse generates light, gravity, mass, vacuum, and the temporal dimension.”
This paper introduces the Converged Transaction-Collapse Model, proposing a novel framework where gravity is fundamentally linked to the quantum measurement problem. It explores how the deterministic nature of the classical world might emerge from the inherently probabilistic quantum future through a unified mechanism of transaction and wave-function collapse.
The model proposes that spacetime and gravity are not fundamental entities, but emergent records of quantum measurement. Collapse, traditionally treated as an interpretive problem, is reframed as the core physical process that converts probabilistic futures into realized geometry.
In this view, spacetime is constructed through discrete acts of quantum-to-classical transition, gravity is the curvature left by realization, and time advances only through collapse events. The classical world thus arises as the accumulated geometry of resolved quantum potentials.
This inversion unites measurement and gravitation within a single framework, linking Heisenberg’s uncertainty, Planck-scale discreteness, and Einsteinian curvature as successive stages in the conversion of probability into physical spacetime.
The Big Bang is not a singularity - it is the first collapse event in the history of the universe. In the -Gravity as Collapse (GAC) model-, pre-Bang spacetime is a timeless void with collapse density $\rho_C = 0$ everywhere, yielding scalar curvature $R = 0$. No geometry, no time, no physics. At $t = 0$, a null hypersurface $\Sigma$ marks the first objective collapse: $\rho_C$ jumps from $0$ to $>0$. Proper time begins ($d\tau = k\, dC$), and spacetime emerges. The universe does not explode from a point - it collapses into existence. This resolves the cosmological singularity without inflation or quantum gravity, and is falsifiable via -CMB collapse asymmetry- and -large-scale structure void patterns.