The Standard Model of cosmology (ΛCDM) and particle physics faces escalating observational tensions, including the Hubble disparity, the S₈ tension, and the fundamental nature of the dark sector. This work introduces the Theory of the Density-Time Metric (IMZD), which proposes that the time component of the metric (the Lapse function N) is a dynamic, thermodynamic degree of freedom coupled directly to local energy density. By abandoning the assumption of a static temporal background, the IMZD framework demonstrates that phenomena currently attributed to Dark Matter and Dark Energy emerge naturally as geometric relaxation processes of the vacuum, strictly regulated by information-theoretic constraints (the Bremermann Limit). Through a comprehensive scalar-tensor field formulation, this work resolves several major paradoxes across cosmic and quantum scales. We demonstrate that galactic rotation curves and the MOND phenomenological limit arise from metric relaxation in cosmic halos, while the Hubble tension is an observational artifact of time dilation in cosmic voids (Nᵥoid ≈ 1. 12). Furthermore, this geometrodynamic approach resolves the Proton Spin Crisis by identifying gluon spin as metric frame-dragging, provides a dynamic derivation of mass-energy equivalence (E = mc²) and inertia from the elastic stiffness of the time-density field, and naturally accounts for the matter-antimatter asymmetry via spontaneous CPT breaking. Finally, the theory offers strict, falsifiable observational signatures for upcoming astronomical missions, including "Dark Damping" of gravitational waves for LISA, as well as specific scale-dependent non-Gaussianities and distance-duality violations for Euclid. The IMZD theory presents a self-contained, mathematically rigorous synthesis of general relativity, quantum mechanics, and information thermodynamics without the need for unobserved dark sector particles.
Vlodrop et al. (2026) studied this question.