This article offers a critical–propositional examination of Mayank Singh’s Quantum Elastic Spacetime Theory (QuEST) in confrontation with the Theory of Objectivity (TO). The study investigates QuEST as a contemporary proposal of emergent gravity grounded in a quantum-elastic spacetime medium, focusing on its treatment of singularity avoidance, gravitational echoes, black hole core regularization, cosmological bounce, and structural discreteness. From the perspective of the Theory of Objectivity, the article identifies important zones of compatibility, especially in QuEST’s rejection of mute singularities, its structural-relational orientation, and its interpretation of gravity as an emergent phenomenon rather than an irreducible primitive. At the same time, the paper argues that QuEST remains ontologically underdetermined when examined under modal discipline, since it does not fully derive its substratum from logical minimum conditions, does not explicitly incorporate triadic relational observation, and does not sufficiently thematize the transcendent element. The article further develops a propositional bridge between QuEST and TO by interpreting strain fields, discrete configurational states, and gravitational echoes as possible phenomenic expressions of tensions, memories, and informational radiations produced through atomic relations. In this way, the study articulates QuEST with the phenomenic table of TO, the Inductor Effects, the cosmogenic theorem, and the cosmological eras of the Theory of Objectivity. Rather than treating QuEST as a rival framework to be dismissed, this work presents it as a valuable interlocutor whose physical formalization may illuminate processes that TO seeks to ground at a deeper modal-ontological level. The article thus contributes to the growing dialogue between modal ontology, emergent gravity, contemporary cosmology, and AI-assisted philosophical-physical analysis. KeywordsTheory of Objectivity; Quantum Elastic Spacetime Theory; QuEST; emergent gravity; modal ontology; spacetime elasticity; singularity avoidance; gravitational echoes; black hole core regularization; cosmological bounce; phenomenic elements; Inductor Effects; atomic radiation; information ontology; critical–propositional analysis; Zenodo dialogue; AI-assisted analysis.
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