Relational Gravity: An Informational–Coherence Foundation of Spacetime Curvature

This paper presents the ontological foundation of the Relational Gravity program. It advances the claim that spacetime curvature is the geometric expression of coherent relational information, with energy–momentum understood as a derived and effective description of localized high-coherence structure rather than an ontologically primitive source. The paper is intentionally foundational and conceptual: it clarifies the relational and informational assumptions underlying the framework, situates Relational Gravity within the relational tradition in philosophy and physics, and contrasts it with entropic, emergent, and other information-based approaches to gravity.