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  "abstract": "This hypothesis develops a speculative alternative interpretation of physical reality based on the framework of General Relativity. Its starting point is not a modification of Einstein's field equations, but a change in their ontological interpretation.\n\nThe central assumption is:\n\nUniverse = E\n\nThe universe is understood as a connected physical energy system. In this interpretation, matter is not treated as an independent fundamental building block, but as a stable, bound, and organized state of the underlying energy.\n\nThe hypothesis therefore initially introduces neither a new theory of gravity nor a new field equation. Instead, it abandons the fundamental ontological separation between matter, radiation, and other forms of energy. It asks whether matter can be understood entirely as a particular organized state of energy.\n\nThe Einstein field equations remain unchanged:\n\nG_mu_nu = (8 * pi * G / c^4) * T_mu_nu\n\nThe change therefore lies not in the equation itself, but in its interpretation:\n\nStandard interpretation (simplified): Matter / Energy → T_mu_nu\n\nThis interpretation: Energy → T_mu_nu\n\nMatter is consequently understood as a specific state of the underlying energy rather than as a fundamentally separate category.\n\nBuilding on this starting point, the hypothesis explores the possibility that photons represent fundamental carriers of free energy and can, under suitable conditions, organize into stable, bound energy states. Within the hypothesis, such photonic structures could form the basis of matter and potentially of elementary particles.\n\nProperties such as energy, polarization, spin, interactions, and the gravitational effect of the combined energy distribution may play a role in this process. Whether such structures can actually produce stable particle states remains an open question and would have to be investigated mathematically and physically.",
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