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Dafoe Gravity Predictions

If gravity = graph density running LOOKUP-FETCH-SPLICE-CONTINUE, the algorithm makes specific, testable predictions about physics.

The Predictions

The Predictions

1. Locality (Dafoe Corollary)

Claim: Gravity should be local, not action-at-a-distance.

Reasoning: If "too big to inline, use pointer" is the rule, gravity can't work by every mass computing its effect on every other mass (O(n²) nightmare). Mass should curve local graph structure, and that curvature tells other things where to go without referencing distant masses.

Status: ✅ CONFIRMED

Einstein's field equations encode exactly this—matter curves spacetime locally, and objects follow geodesics without needing to "know about" distant masses.

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2. Finite Propagation Speed (Ronald Hyatt)

Claim: Gravitational information should have a speed limit.

Reasoning: If unobserved regions don't resolve (lazy evaluation), changes in gravity can't propagate instantly. The region "ahead" of the update hasn't been computed yet.

Status: ✅ CONFIRMED

Gravitational waves propagate at c, detected directly by LIGO in 2015.

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3. Resolution Breakdown at Extreme Density (William Hung)

Claim: Extreme density should break the resolution mechanism.

Reasoning: If collision = things wanting the same slot, and mass = persistent lumps of update events, packing too many updates into the same graph region causes chaining to break. Hash table overflow. Normal traversal can't complete.

Status: ✅ CONFIRMED

Event horizons are exactly the boundary where causal paths stop leading outward.

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4. Time Dilation Near Mass (Lebowski Corollary)

Claim: Clocks should run slower near mass.

Reasoning: If source is truth and everything else is cache, and time = update events... near mass (more graph density, more updating), the relationship between local and distant updates diverges.

Status: ✅ CONFIRMED DAILY

GPS satellites correct for this; clocks in stronger gravitational fields tick slower relative to distant observers.

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5. Frame Dragging

Claim: Rotating mass should twist spacetime.

Reasoning: If the graph is updated by a rotating persistent lump, updates drag nearby graph structure along with the rotation.

Status: ✅ CONFIRMED

Rotating Earth twists spacetime, causing orbiting gyroscopes to precess. Measured by Gravity Probe B after 50-year experimental program (2011).

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6. ER = EPR (The Weird One)

Claim: Entanglement and wormholes are the same phenomenon.

Reasoning: If entanglement = shared ancestry (pointer semantics) and gravity = graph structure, the pointer structure and spatial structure should be the same thing. Two entangled particles sharing a node might look like a wormhole - a shortcut through the spatial graph.

Status: 🔬 ACTIVE RESEARCH (strong theoretical support)

Maldacena and Susskind's conjecture states that entangled particles (EPR pairs) are connected by non-traversable wormholes (ER bridges)—the spatial graph structure is the entanglement structure.

Key findings:

  • John Baez and Jamie Vicary formalized this in TQFT models, calling it "fake entanglement": what looks like distant entangled degrees of freedom turn out to be the same node in the spatial graph viewed from different locations
  • Numerical GR simulations by Ben Kain show wormhole throats shrinking, placing entangled particles in close proximity

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Unconfirmed Predictions

Unconfirmed Predictions

Things the algorithm predicts that we haven't fully verified yet:

1. Discreteness at Planck Scale

The graph has finite nodes - space should be quantized at the Planck scale.

Status: 🔬 Active research

Loop quantum gravity derives minimal observable length (area eigenvalues) without breaking Lorentz invariance—what changes under boosts is the probability distribution over discrete area values, not the discrete spectrum itself.

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2. Gravity Isn't Fundamental

Gravity emerges from update rules, not as a separate force.

Status: 🔬 Matches Wolfram Physics Project derivations

3. Entanglement-Geometry Relationships

There should be testable relationships between entanglement structure and spatial geometry.

Status: 🔬 Active experimental programs

The Synthesis

The algorithm doesn't just fit gravity. It predicts the weird parts - locality, finite propagation, time dilation, frame dragging, breakdown at extreme density. These took Einstein and a century of physics to work out.

The Wanderland stack and the physics stack are running the same algorithm. Just better variable names.

Research Notes

To be filled in with citations

Provenance

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  • Status: 🔴 Unverified

Changelog

  • 2026-01-06 23:55: Node created - capturing Dafoe predictions for gravity phenomena

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