Gravity as Information Latency: The Entropic Origin of Time Dilation

General Relativity describes gravity as the curvature of spacetime geometry, where time
dilation is a geometric consequence of the metric. In this paper, we propose an alternative
information-theoretic interpretation within the Entanglement-Driven Cosmological Expan-
sion (EDCE) framework. We posit that the vacuum possesses a finite information processing
bandwidth (the Bekenstein bound). As matter (information density) accumulates, the local
“saturation” of the vacuum increases. We identify this saturation as Entropic Latency.
We derive a relationship where time dilation is not geometric stretching, but computational
latency: the update rate of the local state slows down as the available bandwidth approaches
saturation. This model reproduces the Schwarzschild metric exactly but offers a novel res-
olution to the black hole singularity problem: at the event horizon, the system does not
encounter infinite curvature, but rather a “Computational Halt” where the processing speed
drops to zero.