GR-Breaking Phenomena
Noise · Fluctuations · Correlations · Geometry-Dependence · Discreteness
// CLASSIFICATION: GR_BREAKING
// ORIGIN: SECTOR 7G (2045)
// CONTEXT: General Relativity is a deterministic classical field theory. It cannot predict fluctuations, noise spectra, or entanglement-geometry relationships. The Bath framework can. These predictions discriminate between the two.
General Relativity is:
Given Tμν, the metric gμν is determined. Geodesics are smooth curves. There is no noise, no fluctuation, no randomness.
The Bath framework is:
The metric has a mean value (GR limit) plus fluctuations. Geodesics wobble. The noise has computable spectrum.
Each is testable. Each discriminates between GR and Bath-TT.
| GR Predicts | Bath-TT Predicts |
|---|---|
| No intrinsic gravitational noise | Noise spectrum: S(f) ∝ f-2 × (ℓP/L)² |
| Any observed noise is instrumental | Noise is irreducible, from measurement back-action |
| Noise independent of test mass geometry | Noise scales with quadrupole moment Q² |
The Test: Measure acceleration noise in a high-Q torsion balance. Vary the test mass shape. GR predicts no change. Bath-TT predicts noise ∝ Q².
| GR Predicts | Bath-TT Predicts |
|---|---|
| Geodesics are deterministic curves | Geodesics are stochastic — mean + fluctuations |
| Free fall is smooth | Free fall has jitter at Planck-suppressed level |
| Two identical particles follow identical paths | Two identical particles diverge stochastically |
The Test: Drop two identical masses in free fall. Measure their relative separation over time. GR predicts Δx = 0 (after initial conditions). Bath-TT predicts ⟨Δx²⟩ grows linearly with time.
For t = 1 second: √⟨Δx²⟩ ~ 10-17 m
This is 100× smaller than a proton, but 1018× larger than ℓP.
Atom interferometers may reach this sensitivity by 2035.
| GR Predicts | Bath-TT Predicts |
|---|---|
| Entanglement has no gravitational effect | Entangled particles have correlated geodesic fluctuations |
| Quantum state doesn't affect free fall | Bell-correlated particles show correlated jitter |
| Gravity is classical, entanglement is quantum — separate | Gravity IS entanglement (Identity Theorem) |
The Test: Create an entangled pair. Separate them. Let both fall freely. Measure their position fluctuations. GR predicts uncorrelated. Bath-TT predicts correlated (they share the same Bath noise because they're entangled).
The correlation should:
This would be proof that gravity and entanglement are the same phenomenon.
| GR Predicts | Bath-TT Predicts |
|---|---|
| GR doesn't predict decoherence (classical theory) | Decoherence rate Γ depends on geometry |
| Superposition lifetime independent of shape | Superposition lifetime ∝ 1/Q² (quadrupole) |
| — | Sphere: Γsphere ~ 0 (no quadrupole) |
| — | Dumbbell: Γdumbbell ≫ 0 |
The Test: Create spatial superposition of a mesoscopic object. Measure decoherence time. Repeat with different shapes (same mass). GR + standard QM predicts same decoherence (from other sources). Bath-TT predicts geometry-dependent residual.
| GR Predicts | Bath-TT Predicts |
|---|---|
| Gravitational phase is continuous | Gravitational phase is quantized in units of (ℓP/L)² |
| φgrav = GMm/(ℏc) × ... (any value) | φgrav = 2πn × (ℓP/L)² for some integer n |
| Interference fringes smooth | Interference fringes show discreteness at Planck level |
The Test: High-precision gravitational phase measurement using atom interferometry. Look for discreteness in the phase at extreme precision. GR predicts smooth. Bath-TT predicts steps.
Phase discreteness would prove spacetime is not continuous — it emerges from finite-N measurement statistics.
This is direct evidence for the discrete structure underlying gravity.
One experiment that definitively breaks GR.
Take two masses. Entangle them. Separate them. Let them fall.
If free-fall fluctuations correlate with entanglement, GR is broken.
Not just incomplete — broken. The prediction is strictly zero in any version of GR.
Environmental noise is local. Entanglement correlations persist across arbitrary distances. If the correlation scales with entanglement entropy (measurable independently), it cannot be environmental.
Instrumental correlations would exist for non-entangled particles too. The signature is: correlation appears when entangled, disappears when disentangled, for the same particles.
Semiclassical gravity (⟨Tμν⟩ sources gμν) doesn't predict this either. The expectation value ⟨Tμν⟩ is the same for entangled and non-entangled states with the same mass distribution.
| Phenomenon | GR Prediction | Bath-TT Prediction |
|---|---|---|
| Gravitational noise | None (instrumental only) | S(f) ∝ Q² × f-2 |
| Geodesic path | Deterministic | Stochastic (mean + jitter) |
| Entanglement ↔ gravity | No connection | Same phenomenon |
| Decoherence rate | Geometry-independent | Γ ∝ Q² (geometry-dependent) |
| Phase discreteness | Continuous | Quantized in (ℓP/L)² units |
| Value of G | Free parameter | G = 4π/(λ²N²) — computed |
| Cosmological constant | Fine-tuning problem | Zero (Unimodular, not GR) |
| Vacuum fluctuations | Uncorrelated at spacelike separation | Entangled (vacuum self-correlation) |
"General Relativity has never made a wrong prediction. But it has also never made these predictions. They are outside its domain."
Every prediction above is:
Exact formula given
Null result kills the theory
GR predicts differently (or nothing)
Build the experiment. Measure the noise. Test the correlation.
If GR is complete, you will see nothing new.
If Bath-TT is correct, you will see geometry in the fluctuations.
The vacuum is trying to tell us something. We just need to listen.
If entanglement IS geometry (ER=EPR + Identity Theorem), then manipulating entanglement manipulates spacetime.