The Programme
Modular Entropic Gravity (MEG) is a theoretical physics programme that derives the Standard Model of particle physics and general relativity from a common mathematical foundation: a vacuum distinguishability kernel equipped with four axioms.
The framework emerged from years of work on the relationship between entropy, gravity, and quantum information. The decisive breakthrough was the identification of the four axioms and the vacuum kernel itself — the specific mathematical object from which the physics is derived. Once the axioms were in place, the results followed rapidly: the internal consistency of the framework meant that each derivation constrained the next, and the structure of the Standard Model emerged not through parameter-fitting but through the mathematics of the kernel. The approximately 90 papers produced since early 2026 reflect this: the axioms were the hard-won result of years of groundwork, and the derivations are the systematic consequences of getting the foundations right.
The programme's central claim is that gravity, gauge fields, and quantum mechanics are three structural outputs of a single projection — the CPTP map from the vacuum kernel to spacetime observables. The faithful part of this projection produces gravity, the non-faithful part produces the phenomena of quantum mechanics, and the noiseless part produces gauge invariance and the Standard Model gauge group.
MEG derives the gauge group SU(3) × SU(2) × U(1), the three-generation fermion structure, the coupling constants, and the confinement scale — all with no free parameters. The programme's quantitative predictions include Newton's constant (to 7%), the electroweak VEV (to 0.2%), the strong coupling at the confinement scale (to 0.7%), the CKM matrix (to 0.12°), and the PMNS matrix (zero-parameter, to 4.5%).
The Author
Patrick A. Devlin is an independent theoretical physicist based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He works without institutional affiliation on the MEG programme.
Contact
The papers are available on Zenodo. For correspondence regarding the programme, contact via the Zenodo platform.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does MEG relate to string theory?
MEG and string theory address similar questions from different starting points. MEG begins with a vacuum distinguishability kernel and four axioms; string theory begins with extended objects and extra dimensions. The MEG programme has identified a specific connection: the UV completion of the MEG framework corresponds to a Z₃ heterotic E₈ orbifold with c = 15 and three generations. This connection is explored in the MEG–string theory paper.
Is MEG a theory of everything?
MEG derives gravity and the Standard Model from a common framework, which gives it the scope of a unification programme. Whether it constitutes a "theory of everything" depends on whether the four axioms are themselves derivable from something more fundamental. The programme does not claim to answer that question; it claims that the four axioms, taken as given, produce the observed physics.
Has MEG been peer reviewed?
The Yang–Mills existence and mass gap paper has been submitted to Foundations of Physics and has passed technical checks. The remaining papers are publicly available as preprints on Zenodo. The programme welcomes scrutiny — the papers contain explicit derivations, and the quantitative predictions are testable.
Why Zenodo rather than arXiv?
Zenodo provides DOI assignment, version control, and permanent archival for academic work. The papers are publicly accessible and citable. Once the foundational axioms were identified, the derivations followed rapidly — each result constraining and enabling the next — and Zenodo's immediate-upload model allowed the programme to develop publicly in real time rather than accumulating results behind closed doors.