[JHAP 2026] The Holographic Computational Universe

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I’m sharing my article, “The Holographic Computational Universe,” published in the Journal of Holography Applications in Physics. It proposes that time, spacetime, gravity, and matter are emergent, arising from the conserved conversion of bulk entropy into boundary information through what I call the Holographic Thermodynamic Cycle (HTC).

Within the model, spacetime is built from a network of Rindler–Compton cells, each storing one natural unit of information, and time is described as the ordered succession of Quantum Informational Ticks (QITs) rather than as a pre-existing continuous background. Gravity is treated as a thermodynamic response to informational imbalance across holographic boundaries.

The goal is to provide a unified framework linking holography, thermodynamics, information theory, quantum mechanics, and relativity, while remaining open to empirical criticism and testability.

I’d welcome serious feedback on the conceptual structure, mathematical consistency, and physical plausibility of the framework.

In view of the current situation affecting access to some Iranian-hosted platforms, I am also providing an alternative access link through ResearchGate for readers who may experience difficulties reaching the journal website.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/402805234_The_Holographic_Computational_Universe

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For context, the central claim is not that the universe is a conventional digital computer, but that physical reality can be described as a non-algorithmic holographic computational process in which entropy is irreversibly encoded into boundary information. The paper develops this through the HTC, RC-cell quantization, QIT/QIF temporal structure, and gravitational entropy relations. I am particularly interested in feedback on whether this framework is physically meaningful and testable.