Geometry & gravity
Could spacetime geometry offer a deeper account of matter and its interactions?
A nonprofit research foundation
Exploring the deep connections between gravity,
information, and the nature of existence.
01 / The foundation
We divide knowledge into fragments. Nature invites us to look for the connections.
Graviton is a nonprofit research foundation bringing fundamental physics, information, philosophy, and the study of consciousness into conversation. Our purpose is to connect the knowledge we build with the existence we experience.
Read our founding visionPeople / Graviton
02 / Our inquiry
Our mission is to investigate the “unchanged code”: the principles that could underlie every possible change. We call this research ambition the Theory of Timeless Gravity.
This is an exploratory program, not an established or experimentally verified theory. Progress requires explicit mathematics, testable predictions, and independent scrutiny.
Could spacetime geometry offer a deeper account of matter and its interactions?
What can quantum correlations tell us about the emergence of spacetime?
How should physics and philosophy address subjective experience without confusing a hypothesis with evidence?
03 / The observatory
Seven interactive models at the edge of what we know. Change the parameters. Follow the mathematics. Question the assumptions.
Loop quantum gravity describes quantum states of geometry using spin networks. Enable JavaScript to adjust the spin label and explore seven interactive physics models.
Read the review of loop quantum gravityBeyond the model / questions worth testing
Compare entanglement measures on small spin networks with boundary-area observables. Which correlations survive a change of graph or coarse-graining?
Exploratory exercise: robustness across different graphs would motivate a stronger conjecture; failure would delimit it. A two-qubit entropy curve alone does not derive spacetime.
Start with a stationary clock–system state. Condition on a clock reading and compare the resulting dynamics with an external-time description.
Research direction inspired by Page–Wootters: test sensitivity to finite clock resolution and interactions. This is a bridge to the Timeless Gravity inquiry, not proof of it.
Compare predictions of effective quantum black-hole geometries for ringdown modes. Identify a deviation that cannot be mimicked by ordinary spin or environmental effects.
A useful proposal must quantify uncertainty and observational reach. The Page curve itself is not an observational detection of quantum gravity.
04 / Research library
A curated starting point, from landmark contributions to recent preprints.
Selected and checked 18 September 2026. Not an exhaustive ranking.
19 PAPERS
A quantum-level connection between constrained spin networks and homogeneous cosmological models.
Probes interior quantum effects through quasinormal modes in a specific 2+1-dimensional black-hole model.
Recent work on mathematical measures and asymptotic entanglement.
A proposed quantization of near-horizon dynamics using the double-scaled SYK model.
A guide to quantum scale symmetry and potential observational tests of asymptotic safety.
Studies LQG-inspired effective geometries; predicted signals are model-dependent, not detections of quantum gravity.
A derivation of the quantum area operator and its discrete spectrum.
A key calculation connecting semiclassical geometry and the Page curve.
A photon experiment illustrating the Page–Wootters relational-time mechanism.
An accessible introduction to quantum geometry, cosmology, and the challenges of loop quantum gravity.
A landmark contribution to recovering the Page curve using quantum extremal surfaces.
A proposed experiment to test the quantum character of gravity through entanglement between masses.
The first direct gravitational-wave detection. Evidence for dynamical spacetime, not a detection of gravitons.
The ER=EPR conjecture explores connections between entanglement and spacetime bridges.
An influential argument linking connectivity of spacetime to quantum entanglement in holography.
A broad reference on the characterization, detection, manipulation, and uses of entanglement.
Connects boundary entanglement entropy to bulk geometry within holographic duality.
Introduces the AdS/CFT correspondence, a central framework for studying quantum gravity.
A historical entry point into background-independent quantization and the quantum structure of geometry.
Preprints are shared before, or independently of, journal peer review.
Inclusion is for study and does not imply endorsement.
05 / Writing
Essays, research, and reflections
from the foundation.
“We invite everyone to join us on this adventurous journey that we all are part of.”
Read the manifestoHow biological rhythms might shape temporal experience. A testable hypothesis with an interactive clock-alignment model, equations, and experimental gates.
Explore the research proposalAhmed Farag Ali, H. Alshal, and Inam Haq explore a proposed geometric origin of particle fields. Supplied manuscript; publication and peer-review status unverified.
Read the manuscriptA conditional argument about consciousness, non-computability, and the limits of materialist explanation.
The manuscript asks what would follow if future evidence established an irreducible, non-computable basis for conscious experience. It draws on the proposed Orch OR framework.
The premise remains unverified. Quantum entanglement does not establish quantum consciousness, and non-computability alone would not rule out an evolutionary origin. Evolutionary biology is not refuted by this philosophical proposal.
Eric Weinstein’s Geometric Unity (2021 working draft) is an external, speculative unification proposal included in our reference material. It is not a Graviton result or an established physical theory.
The inquiry is open.