GIBM 2.1: A Scale-Dependent Framework for Physical Organization, Records, and Emergent Geometry

The Gravity–Information Base Model (GIBM) is a conceptual research framework for examining how physical organization, persistence, records, scale, observation, and effective geometry may emerge from deeper relational structure. This revised version, GIBM 2.1, consolidates and audits earlier work on gravity, inertia, energy, entropy, curvature, scale-dependent smoothness, classical recovery, and the quantum measurement interface.

The framework treats composition as organized physical structure, persistence as continued recoverability across dependent updates, history as retained dependency, and records as persistent physical constraints produced by prior interactions and recoverable through later interactions. Observation is therefore described as the acquisition or recovery of a stable record by an embedded physical subsystem rather than as the creation of reality or the global selection of a uniquely actual outcome. Scale is treated as an objective organizational regime in which particular structures, distinctions, and effective regularities remain valid within specified limits of resolution.

GIBM 2.1 also introduces a recoverability principle: the first stable description accessible at a given scale need not mark the beginning or full extent of the underlying physical process. Classical behavior is provisionally associated with cross-scale stability, in which defining distinctions remain recoverable through repeated interactions, coarse-graining, and changes of resolution.

The framework preserves experimentally established physics while distinguishing between recovered results, empirical inputs, working hypotheses, and unresolved questions. Existing recovery programs for Newtonian gravity, relativistic curvature, inertia, energy conservation, entropy, and the arrow of time are retained as candidate mathematical realizations subject to consistency review. In the quantum domain, interference and squared-amplitude measures are preserved, while global collapse, primitive actuality, proportional sampling, and single-outcome selection are not assumed. The equality between squared-amplitude measure and observed record frequencies is retained as an empirical interface law whose deeper derivation remains open.

GIBM 2.1 is therefore presented not as a completed theory of everything, but as an audited physical architecture and research program. Its purpose is to identify the minimum concepts required for a unified account of organized physical reality, determine which established mathematical structures can implement that account, and clearly expose the remaining conceptual, mathematical, and experimental problems.