Informational Gravity: Time, Spacetime, and Dark Energy as Emergent Properties of Informational Structure

We present a conceptual framework in which spacetime, gravity, and dark energy areemergent phenomena arising from the informational structure of bound energy. The central thesis is thatgravitational mass measures informationally bound energy: structured, causally connected energy thatmaintains internal relationships or constraints within a rest frame. Proper time — the time measuredalong a system's worldline — emerges from these internal causal relationships. Systems withoutinternal structure (such as massless excitations) define causal structure but have zero proper time alongtheir worldlines. Spatial distance is identified with causal separation in the resulting network: two systems are "far apart"if many…