Gravity as a Sub-Quantum Wave Phenomenon: Planck Density as the Quantization Floor and Planck Time as the Temporal Unit of Gravitational Quantization

For over a century, attempts to reconcile gravity with quantum field theory have assumed that gravity operates at the same quantum scale as the other three fundamental forces. This paper proposes that this assumption is the source of the failure. Gravity is not a particle propagating through spacetime, it is a wave phenomenon intrinsic to spacetime itself. As such, its quantization structure is not the quantum scale shared by electromagnetism, the weak force, and the strong force, but a finer scale defined by two independent physical parameters, exactly as a digital audio signal requires both a sample rate and a bit depth to be fully described.

Planck time functions as gravity’s sample rate: the minimum temporal resolution of the gravitational field. Planck density functions as gravity’s bit depth ceiling: the maximum amplitude the gravitational field can express. Together, these two axes fully characterize the quantization structure of gravity, and explain why a century of searching at the quantum scale has come up empty. We have been looking at the wrong sample rate.

This reframing eliminates gravitational singularities inside black holes, replaces mathematical infinities with physical density limits governed by mass, and produces a speculative but falsifiable prediction: aliasing-type signatures in LIGO gravitational wave data during black hole merger events, contingent on instrumentation sensitivity approaching the relevant scale

Note: Work in progress. Core framework fully established, sources and mathematical formalization are in development. Questions welcome in the meantime at justinlomiglio@gmail.com.