Spacetime Geometry as the Emergent Relational Expression of Physical Field Activity
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: This paper examines whether spacetime geometry should be understood as an independently existing background structure or as the relational expression of physical activity itself. The argument does not reject General Relativity or its successful description of curvature. Instead, it asks what curvature may represent at a deeper ontological level.Drawing from General Relativity, Quantum Field Theory, modern vacuum physics, black hole thermodynamics, and emergent or relational approaches to spacetime, the paper develops a philosophy-of-physics interpretation in which spacetime geometry may be the stable large-scale expression of field activity, fluctuation, excitation, energy distribution, interaction, organization, and relational change.The proposal remains conceptual rather than a completed mathematical replacement theory. It does not attempt to replace the equations of General Relativity, nor does it claim to derive spacetime geometry mathematically from quantum fields. Its purpose is to examine whether spacetime curvature may be interpreted as the observable relation between physically expressed conditions rather than as the literal deformation of an independently existing spacetime substance.
Author: Silveira, David
Language: English
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7162651710
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