Gravitational Waves and the Whispering Void: Is Spacetime Made of Information?

The dark between the stars has always been our definition of nothingness. We treat it as a passive container, a blank canvas where matter plays out its violent dramas. Einstein taught us to see it as a smooth, geometric fabric, bending only under the weight of massive objects but possessing no internal life of its own. This emptiness is seductive. It suggests simplicity. It implies that if you remove the stars and the gas, you are left with zero. A perfect, silent zero. We built our understanding of the cosmos on this foundation of absolute vacancy. But this silence might be a trick. By assuming the void is featureless, we blind ourselves to the texture of reality. We gaze into the deep black and see only distance, missing the grain of the wood because we are too focused on the lack of paint. The vacuum is not a neutral observer. It is a shroud. It hides the machinery of existence beneath a veneer of smooth geometry, deceiving us into thinking the universe is simpler than it is.

Now, we have a flashlight. A revised formulation of the Unified Theory of Informational Spin (TGU) offers a radical plot twist in our reading of the cosmos. It suggests that the stage is not empty at all.

How Gravitational Waves Could Expose the Substrate

In this new framework, the vacuum is described not as a geometric void, but as a structured informational substrate. When cataclysmic events occur—like the black hole merger observed in GW150914—they send ripples through this structure. The study proposes that these gravitational waves are phase-coherent excitations. As they travel, they do not just pass through empty space; they interact with the information inherent in the path.

The consequences of this interaction are measurable. Numerical simulations indicate that the informational coherence gradients acts like a prism. It modulates the amplitude of the wave. More importantly, it creates polarisation anisotropies. These are specific twists in the signal that cannot be mapped to any physical source geometry allowed by General Relativity. If the vacuum were truly empty, these twists would not exist. Their presence would imply the void has a texture.

Testing the Theory

This is not merely philosophical musing. The revised formulation lays out explicit criteria for falsification. It separates the emission of the wave—still governed by General Relativity—from its propagation, which is where the TGU takes effect. By analysing the polarisation ratios and frequency behaviour of signals received by current and next-generation interferometers, physicists may soon determine if space is a smooth sheet or a woven code. The silence of the void may soon be broken.