Energy-Space Conjugacy and the Elimination of Time as a Fundamental Variable: Toward a Unification Condition R·V·λ = 8πGh/c³

The century-long failure to unify general relativity and quantum mechanics may originate not from the incompatibility of the two theories themselves, but from an interpretive error on the relativity side. This paper argues that the geometric interpretation of general relativity mistakes the success of Riemannian geometry as a calculational tool for evidence that spacetime curvature is the physical essence of gravitation. This conflation creates an artificial barrier to quantum unification. We propose a framework in which energy and space form a conjugate pair, and time is not a fundamental variable but a parametric one that tracks their flow. Eliminating time from the Einstein field equations and the wave equation independently, we obtain two expressions for energy as a function of spatial quantities alone. Equating these yields a unification condition: R·V·λ = 8πGh/c³, where both sides carry purely spatial dimensions [L²] with all time dimensions cancelling exactly. This framework dissolves the frozen-formalism problem (Wheeler-DeWitt equation), avoids black hole singularities under discrete space, eliminates the circular reasoning behind the thermodynamic arrow of time, and questions the validity of natural units (c = 1). The present derivations use dimensional analysis under simplifying assumptions; generalization is deferred to future work.