Dear Kurt,

The fundamental hypothesis of the theory of informatons is that a material object manifests itself in space by the emission of mass- and energy less entities. These enities are called “informatons” because they are carriers of nothing else but information about the position and the velocity (and the electric status) of their emitter. Informatons are the constituent elements of the gravitional (and electric) field of an object.

According to the theory of informatons, the rate  dN/dt  at which an object emits informatons is proportional to its rest mass m0 , what implies that it is determined by the energy   E0 = m0.c2   of that object.   Indeed according to the postulate of the emission of informatons ( “Theory of Informatons" - § 4. 3):   dN/dt=E0 /h.

So, in the context of the theory of informatons, the mass/energy is a fundamental characteristic of an object;  it is  the source of its gravitational (and electric) field.