Theory of Timeless Gravity
Our central proposal asks whether matter can arise from geometry. We are checking its constraints and studying relational clocks as a separate supporting problem.
Learn moreA nonprofit research foundation
Exploring quantum gravity, quantum information,
and the physical basis of conscious experience.
01 / The foundation
We want to understand how matter, information and conscious experience fit into the same physical world.
Graviton is a nonprofit research foundation studying gravity, quantum information and consciousness. We work across these fields through questions we can make precise, calculations others can repeat, and ideas that remain open to correction.
Read our founding visionPeople / Graviton
02 / Our inquiry
Three questions guide our work. Can matter arise from geometry? Could a quantum reaction affect neural processing? When does quantum information tell us something about spacetime? Each needs evidence of its own.
Our central proposal asks whether matter can arise from geometry. We are checking its constraints and studying relational clocks as a separate supporting problem.
Learn moreStart with a specified chemical reaction. Calculate what it produces, then ask whether that product could change a neuron’s response.
Learn moreStudy quantum correlations and the models that connect them to geometry. Our latest calculation tests how much a conclusion depends on the observation window.
Learn moreThese are research programs in progress. Each page identifies what has been checked, what is assumed, and what needs to be measured next.
03 / The observatory
Seven ways to explore the physics. Adjust a parameter, see what changes, and read the assumptions behind the result.
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
Papers we return to, alongside recent work worth a closer look.
October additions checked 27 October 2026; earlier selection checked 18 September 2026.
22 PAPERS
Develops finite-window bounds using a stationary-subtracted mean-square correlation diagnostic. Its observable differs from Graviton’s mean-absolute diagnostic.
Sets out proposed interferometer requirements and low-frequency noise challenges for a test of gravity-mediated entanglement.
Studies memory-dependent environmental effects in a radical-pair model, including a comparison with Markovian dynamics.
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
What we’re working on, what we’ve checked,
and what still needs an answer.
“We want researchers to be able to explain both what their methods reveal and where those methods stop.”
Read the manifestoWe tested 180 quantum-model settings across four observation windows. An earlier result holds in its original window, but a wider claim does not. Explore every comparison, including the reversals.
Read the new studyA small chemical effect matters only if a cell can respond to it. This protocol works through the quantities we would need to measure, and when they would rule the pathway out.
Read the research noteCould poorly synchronized biological clocks make our judgments of duration less consistent? Explore the prediction, its equations, and the measurements needed to test it.
Explore the research proposalAhmed Farag Ali, H. Alshal, and Inam Haq explore a proposed geometric origin of particle fields. The original manuscript is preserved; publication and peer-review status are unverified. Read the new consistency checks.
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 conditional argument.
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.