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Another physicist here, not an expert. This is my understanding of the work:

The paper (and related papers) aims to unify classical electromagnetic (Maxwell equations) and gravitational forces (Newton laws) in a new proposed framework, the informatons.

Assuming the maths check out, my understanding is that the author proposes the informatons, and successfully rewrites Newton and Maxwell's equations in terms of the informatons.

If I understand correctly, the author believes informatons are a better theory because electromagnetic and gravitational fields are mathematical constructs, just like informatons, but with the informatons you have one framework capable of explaining both phenomena. It sounds to me like a unification theory for both gravitational and electromagnetic fields.

Having one theory for all fundamental forces has been a goal of theoretical physics for a long time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_interaction

There are four forces to be unified (strong nuclear, weak nuclear, electromagnetic and gravitational). The weak and electromagnetic forces have already been unified (awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics, 1979). The electroweak unification has been experimentally proven. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroweak_interaction

It seems to me the author aims to unify gravity and electromagnetism. The proposed theory may be mathematically correct but to my understanding it has two big limitations:

(1) there is no experimental setup devised to verify the existence of these informatons

(2) classical electromagnetism has already been unified with the weak nuclear force.

There have been several attempts to unify classical forces (electromagnetism and gravitational), but since the electroweak unification in 1979 physicists do not tend to focus much on a electromagnetic-gravitational unification. And physicists have a reason: If you already have the electroweak unification, why would you want to find a theory that allows you to merge electromagnetic and gravitational forces without considering the weak nuclear force?

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/462122/unificati...

It is hard for me to find the author contributions valuable without:

(a) A focus on how informatons should be experimentally validated, just like it happened with the electroweak unification. This is a major problem for this theory, in my opinion.

(b) How does the author deal with previous proven unification work, for instance the electroweak unification?

(c) In general, the author does not seem to be able to put his work in context of other unification theories. This is usually a red flag to the community because it implies that, as a reviewer, I can't assume the author knows the state of the art of the field.

Having said this, I am no theoretical physicist and I am no expert, so I will be very happy to be corrected.