Quantum Completion of Quantum Vacuum Polarization Gravity (QVP-G) via the Information Resonance Network (IRN)
Đulović, Damir
Abstract
This paper develops the quantum completion of Quantum Vacuum Polarization Gravity (QVP-G) by introducing the Information Resonance Network (IRN) as an underlying quantum substrate. While the macroscopic QVP-G framework describes gravity as an emergent effect of vacuum polarization encoded in a scalar field P(x), the present work provides an ontological and dynamical picture of how quantum states, decoherence, and the Born rule arise from microscopic IRN degrees of freedom. We model the IRN as a many-body quantum system on a graph whose nodes carry localized information degrees of freedom and whose edges encode resonance couplings. Quantum states of matter and of the polarization field are reinterpreted as collective excitation patterns of this network. Within the open-quantum-systems framework, we identify the relevant system–environment split, derive an influence functional for the IRN environment, and obtain effective master equations for macroscopic matter degrees of freedom coupled to the polarization field. In the quasi-static, Markovian regime we show that IRN-induced decoherence rates are governed by a polarization energy functional E_P[Δρ] of the mass-density difference between superposed configurations, leading to scalings of the form Γ_IRN ∝ E_P[Δρ]/ħ. In suitable limits the polarization energy E_P[Δρ] reduces to the gravitational self-energy |E_G[Δρ]|, and the IRN-induced decoherence channel reproduces a Diósi–Penrose-type scaling Γ ∝ |E_G|/ħ as a derived property rather than a phenomenological postulate. We analyse the conditions under which this mechanism can dominate over conventional environmental decoherence, and delineate the parameter range compatible with laboratory interferometry constraints and cosmological observations within the validity of the effective field theory. A detailed case study of the double-slit experiment is presented in the IRN picture. Interference patterns, which-path detection, and measurement outcomes are described in terms of competing IRN branches, each corresponding to macroscopically distinct polarization configurations correlated with different detector states. The Born rule emerges from the combinatorics and relative stability of IRN microstate ensembles under coarse-graining, rather than being imposed as a separate axiom. Classical trajectories, pointer states, and quasi-localized “worlds” appear as robust IRN patterns stabilized by resonance structure and network connectivity. We compare the QVP-G/IRN completion to leading collapse and decoherence models such as the Diósi–Penrose proposal and Continuous Spontaneous Localization (CSL), highlighting similarities in the dependence on gravitational or polarization energies but emphasising the different ontological status of the underlying degrees of freedom. The IRN framework provides a single unified language for modified gravity, decoherence, and quantum foundations, tightly linked to the macroscopic QVP-G phenomenology on galactic and cosmological scales. This quantum-layer preprint is part of a coordinated QVP-G/IRN series: it builds on (i) the core QVP-G effective field theory unifying dark matter and dark energy, (ii) the cosmological background and linear perturbations paper (Boltzmann-code implementation), and (iii) the microscopic mQVP-G papers on gravitational “chemistry” and near-critical MOND behaviour, and provides the quantum completion that connects polarization fields, decoherence, and the structure of quantum theory. The author gratefully acknowledges the use of a novel multi-agent artificial intelligence system based on iterative Socratic dialogue as a conceptual support tool in the development of this work.