Нашел статью, близкую по духу
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.10503.pdfОни пишут:
The idea that gravity and spacetime originate from some underlying microscopic reality in which they do not exist is a widely held belief in, for example, the string theory community.
Т.е. идея старая, обсуждалась еще в прошлом веке, например,
Edward Witten. Reflections on the fate of space-time. Physics Today, 49N4:24–30, 1996.
Nathan Seiberg. Emergent spacetime. In The Quantum Structure of Space and Time: Proceedings of the 23rd Solvay Conference on Physics. Brussels, Belgium. 1 - 3 December 2005, pages 163–178, 2006.
Erik P. Verlinde. On the origin of gravity and the laws of Newton. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2011(4):1–27, 2011.
Erik P. Verlinde. Emergent gravity and the dark universe. SciPost Phys., 2(3):016, 2017.