Gravitational Record Formation: A Unified Mechanism for Wave Function Collapse and Spacetime Emergence

This upload contains the preprint “Gravitational Record Formation: A Unified Mechanism for Wave Function Collapse and Spacetime Emergence” by SIKX HILTON (Independent Physics Research Team). The paper introduces the Entangled Spacetime Mediator (ESM) framework, which defines “measurement” operationally as gravitational record formation and models spacetime as a finite-capacity record channel. The core contribution is a signaling-safe Option A architecture: sharp localization in single experimental runs (a first-passage stopping-time event) while the ensemble evolution remains linear CPTP, preventing superluminal signaling. The model predicts a distinctive first-passage (inverse-Gaussian) distribution of collapse times and proposes a gravity-only discriminator via source-mass modulation. A closed-form gravitational distinguishability functional for homogeneous spheres is used to derive scaling targets for high-mass interferometry (MAQRO-class). Cosmology and black-hole sections are presented as application/interpretation programs based on the same capacity mechanism.