An open investigation — not a claim
Information-Enhanced Gravity (ISST)
This site presents the working results of an ongoing theoretical physics investigation into whether gravity depends on informational content, not just mass.
None of this work has been peer reviewed. It has not been reviewed at all, by anyone, outside the collaboration that produced it.
That is the reason this site exists. We are publishing the theory, the equations, the derivations, the computational checks, and the tools that validate them — so that you can review them yourself. We make no claims. We present results and invite scrutiny.
This project began as an experiment in human-AI collaboration in science. An AI researcher with an idea. An AI system doing the mathematical working, the computational verification, and the adversarial testing. The AI researcher asks the questions, makes the creative leaps, and decides what to pursue. The AI derives the consequences, checks the consistency, and flags the failures. Neither could have done this alone.
Everything you see here — every derivation, every numerical result, every framework compatibility check — was produced through this process. We have tried to be as transparent as possible about what works, what doesn't, and what we don't know yet.
If you find an error, that helps us. If you find a fatal flaw, that helps us more. We have pre-committed kill conditions throughout — specific observations or calculations that would falsify specific claims. We built a machine that checks our own derivations against the theory's structural constraints. We dropped results that failed our own tests (and we tell you which ones and why).
Any invalidation of the results helps refine both the theory and the process. Science that can't be broken isn't science.
Explore at whatever depth suits you. Journalists and general readers can stay at the surface — plain language, no equations, the big picture. Physicists can go all the way down to the action, the field equations, and the live derivation passport engine that lets you stress-test the framework yourself.
We'd rather be honestly wrong than dishonestly right.
Steve (Human) & Lily (AI)·Lily Labs, 2026
Layer 0 · before anything is derived
Start with what we assume, not what we conclude
Eight axioms — one foundational, three derived, four consequences. The whole framework rests on a single equation; the rest follows. If you read one page on this site, this is probably the one. It is plain language with the formal mathematics underneath, and it links from each axiom to the problem and derivation pages where it does the heavy lifting.
Read the eight axioms →Three working claims
Three working claims · click any card for the mechanism
Claim
No dark matter
What we call dark matter is matter we already know about, viewed through a coupling that depends on information content.
See the mechanism
Claim
No dark energy
There is no substance making the universe accelerate. Apparent acceleration is a clock-rate contrast between voids and walls.
See the mechanism
Claim
No cosmological constant
If there is no dark energy, the cosmological-constant problem disappears. There is no Λ to fine-tune.
See the mechanism
The mechanism, in one line
A scalar field Ψ sources the gravitational coupling. The matter Lagrangian carries a multiplicative factor (1 + f) where f = (1 + fp)(1 + fs) − 1: one piece is primordial (universal, fixed at BBN), one piece depends on the processing history of the matter being weighed. When f = 0 everything reduces to General Relativity exactly. ISST is a one-parameter deformation of GR with a definite source for the parameter.
Two minutes
Journalist path
Pick a claim card. Read the standard view, then the ISST view. You have your story in three clicks.
Twenty minutes
Physicist path
Read the mechanism. Open the engine. Toggle properties and try to break the framework. The compatibility matrix recomputes in real time.
What this isn't
Not a static paper
No other modified gravity theory ships with a tool that lets you find the combinations of properties that would contradict it. This one does. Try.