So why go to the trouble of writing down new field equations at all?
Because if gravity really emerges from information, that idea has to do real work. It can’t just be philosophical language layered on top of Einstein’s equations. A genuine theory of emergent gravity must tell us how information constrains spacetime locally, dynamically, and consistently — in exactly the same way Einstein’s field equations tell us how energy and momentum shape geometry.
Field equations are the point where intuition becomes testable physics. They are what turn statements like “time emerges from entropy flow” or “black holes are saturation surfaces” into precise, falsifiable claims. Without equations, those ideas remain metaphors. With equations, they become predictions: how entropy gradients evolve, how horizons form, how cosmology behaves, and where deviations from General Relativity should or should not appear.
In the VERSF–TPB–BCB framework, the field equations serve a very specific role. They are not invented to replace Einstein’s equations, but to explain why Einstein’s equations work so well — and why they must fail or deform in regimes where information saturation becomes unavoidable. The equations encode four unavoidable constraints: bits are conserved, ticks are conserved, irreversible updates align with entropy structure, and geometry must close consistently. Writing down the field equations is simply the act of enforcing those constraints everywhere in spacetime, simultaneously.
There’s also a deeper reason. Any theory that claims spacetime is emergent must answer a hard question: what replaces curvature as the fundamental organizing principle? In this framework, the answer is information regulation. The field equations are the minimal mathematical expression of that regulation. They tell us how the universe keeps track of irreversible change, how it budgets distinguishability, and how geometry arises as the bookkeeping mechanism that makes those constraints mutually consistent.
So we write field equations not because physics demands more equations, but because reality demands closure. If information truly underlies space and time, then the universe must obey local, covariant rules governing how that information can change. The VERSF–TPB–BCB field equations are the simplest possible way of stating those rules — and Einstein’s equations emerge as the smooth, low-gradient limit where information never comes close to saturation.