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Explore the emergence of spacetime from quantum entanglement through a new framework.

April 1, 2026Open Access

Proto-Space: A Formal and Philosophical Framework for Spacetime Emergence from Quantum Entanglement

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Explore the emergence of spacetime from quantum entanglement through a new framework.
Develop a formal and philosophical framework for proto-space.
Examine relationships between different physical regimes: sub-Planck scales, black hole interior, and pre-Big-Bang state.
Utilize information-theoretic parameters to formalize spacetime emergence.
Introduced proto-space as a state between spatial and non-spatial.
Identified three distinct physical regimes that are structurally related regarding spacetime emergence.
Formulated the central hypothesis for falsifiability in tensor network simulations.

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This paper develops a formal and philosophical framework for understanding the pregeometric ground state of reality, as implied by the spacetime emergence thesis. Building on results from the AdS/CFT correspondence (Maldacena 1998; Ryu Van Raamsdonk 2010), the ER=EPR conjecture (Maldacena Knox 2019), through implications for ontic structural realism, and through the transformation of Leibniz’s question “Why is there something rather than nothing?” into a structural question about the physical state space. Throughout, the epistemic status of each claim is explicitly marked.

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