The Charge-Separation Ontology: Spacetime as the Manifold of Unresolved Entanglement

This work presents a minimal ontological framework in which charge polarity asymmetry is taken as the sole fundamental primitive. Entanglement is identified with the physical separation between + and − poles. The collective stretch of unresolved separations is represented as a smooth 4-dimensional Lorentzian manifold (M) with metric g_. Resolved knots act as sources of curvature (gravity as mass attraction), while the vacuum repulsion parameter α functions as a conformal stabilizer (energy repulsion). Three independent derivations performed on the manifold converge on a bare (“cellar”) value α (bare) ≈1/132, consistent with the observed low-energy effective coupling 1/137. 036 once logarithmic running arising from resolution dynamics is included. The resolution process is derived from a variational action principle on (M), yielding a deterministic flow on the space of metrics. The Born rule emerges statistically from the microstate counting (132 configurations per local chart). The framework recovers standard general relativity and quantum mechanics as effective descriptions at accessible scales while reducing the ontology to a single primitive. The paper includes discussions of black hole horizons as macroscopic detectors for entanglement resolution, accretion heating as forced decoherence rather than friction, and qualitative expectations for high-energy behavior. This is a speculative ontological proposal. It is presented for open discussion and further development.