Gamma-Ray Emission as a Signature of Informational Dynamics: Observational Predictions of ZIP Cosmology

This work presents a phenomenological analysis of gamma-ray emission within the framework of ZIP cosmology and examines its implications for the nature of dark matter. In ZIP, spacetime is treated as an informational field, and gamma radiation is interpreted as a manifestation of rapid, non-continuous informational reconfiguration rather than a product of particle annihilation or decay. Dark matter corresponds to a static or slowly evolving informational configuration and is therefore not expected to produce intrinsic gamma-ray emission. The work formulates clear and falsifiable observational predictions, most notably the absence of a universal, dark-matter-specific gamma-ray spectral line at any energy scale. These predictions are confronted with existing gamma-ray observations, including long-term measurements of dwarf spheroidal galaxies and dynamically active astrophysical systems. The persistent non-detection of gamma-ray emission from dark-matter-dominated, dynamically stable systems is shown to be a natural and expected outcome within ZIP cosmology. By contrasting ZIP with particle-based dark matter models, this work demonstrates that the two frameworks make mutually exclusive long-term observational predictions. ZIP remains fully consistent with current gamma-ray data without requiring parameter tuning, and its predictions become increasingly testable as observational sensitivity improves.