Matter and Gravity from Entanglement in the Thick Present: A Summary of the Present Quantum Gravity Framework

We introduce Present Quantum Gravity (PQG), a novel framework grounded in an informational ontology in which only the present instant exists. The Present is described as a quantum memory updating in discrete ticks, encoding entanglement as closed loop structures in a Wick-rotated, relational space. Building on time-symmetric quantum mechanics, holographic principles, and entropic gravity, rest mass is reinterpreted as information hidden through temporal entanglement, and gravity emerges from a local symmetry breaking of spatial entanglement to compensate for hidden information. From this informational asymmetry, we recover the Newtonian potential and weak-field gravitational time dilations, interpreted as reductions in accessible degrees of freedom. PQG is conceptually compatible with established interpretations, while providing predictions that are in principle falsifiable. Limitations, such as the absence of a field theoretic dynamics or the full Einstein equations, and research avenues, including connections to Einstein-Cartan theory, are discussed at the end of the paper. This work synthesizes the status of the framework as presented at Quantum2025 (Torino, IT), emphasizing its conceptual advances, experimental proposals, and roadmap towards a fully dynamical theory, while leaving the details to the referenced literature.