Gravity is a network effect
So I was thinking about spacetime. It’s hard to understand because the name is misleading. It seems to indicate that there is a hidden dimension. Graphical models paint it in 3D, where space is “curving” or “bending”, but that’s not true at all.
It’s not about the entropy outside of a gravitational network either. This is wrong, and it always seemed counter-intuitive.
I was thinking about gravity and computation. Within a gravitational system, particle events are more likely to take place towards the center of gravity. Is this due to a limit in local computational capacity? Not at all — if it were, events in a dense causal network would be slower, the opposite of gravity.
In network theory, the value of a network is the square of the number of it’s participants. As the network grows it becomes more valuable. Once it reaches a critical mass, it becomes self sustaining, because it’s participants attract others to join. The critical mass required depends on the context. If there is already many networks, a new network will need to present more value to gain members. On the surface of the earth, nothing presents sufficient weight to have any relevant amount of gravity.
The question is, why? In biological networks, there are always tangible reasons, like economic of scale. It’s cheaper to find things inside of the network than outside of them. There is a system of incentives. The incentive is to live, and to grow.