A Cybernetic Model of Spacetime Emergence and Physical Reality
Gihan Soliman*
Contemporary physics describes how matter moves and interacts, but not how spacetime itself comes into being. General Relativity treats spacetime as a geometric manifold whose curvature encodes gravitational dynamics, while quantum theory treats energy as structureless and information as abstract. This paper introduces a cybernetic model that resolves this conceptual gap by treating spacetime as an emergent, dynamically updated fabric generated by the interaction of two primitive processes: Timing (the constructive rhythm of event-resolution) and Resonance (the coherence or seclusion of quantized energy-information waves). Their interaction produces the fundamental unit of physical reality—the spacetime event—expressed generatively as [ 𝒮(x,t) = T(x,t), R(x,t) ].
From this cybernetic engine, classical geometric structures arise naturally: curvature emerges from Resonance gradients, acceleration becomes the kinematic shadow of shifting coherence, and matter crystallizes from stabilized Resonance patterns. Dark matter corresponds to sub-threshold Resonance; black holes represent total seclusion. Quantum paradoxes—including superposition, entanglement, and wave–particle duality—are reinterpreted as behaviours of the emergent Layer-1 cybernetic domain, while macroscopic geometry appears only in Layer-2 as stabilized Resonance.
The model unifies diverse physical phenomena—gravity, forces, refraction, confinement, and spacetime emergence—under a single Timing × Resonance mechanism. It clarifies the partial successes and limitations of quantum gravity, emergent spacetime theories, and information-theoretic physics by supplying the physical mechanism they lack. The result is a coherent, cybernetic interpretation of the universe in which spacetime is not a static backdrop but a living, dynamically recombined fabric generated by the continual interplay of Timing, Resonance, and information flow.
Resonance, Matter, Black Holes, Cybernetics, Spacetime, Fabric, Curvature, Physics, Timing, Quantum Gravity, Emergent Spacetime
Gihan Soliman, The Linnean Society of Mineral Cybernetics, Leadhills, Scotland, UK.
Soliman, G. (2026). The cybernetics of physics and the fabric of spacetime. J. Cogn. Comput. Ext. Realities, 2(1), 01-32.