Proposed here is a new approach to the known disparity between the 4d spacetime designs of quantum field theory (QFT) and general relativity (GR). The reason for calculus in physics, and how and why QFT developed as flat 4d spacetime and GR as curved 4d spacetime shall be outlined. The key difference between QFT and GR in the context of the GR based ΛCDM model shall be confirmed as the condition of QFT requiring independent inertial frames of reference and GR requiring dependent inertial frames of reference. Following such, a brief account of current attempts uniting QFT and GR as the search for quantum gravity shall be outlined. In making use of the known QFT and GR data, their flat/curved 4d spacetime disparity, and the difficulty in proving quantum gravity, a new approach forward is proposed via a zero-dimensional number theory application to physical data. By this zero-dimensional number theory, the QFT and GR data and associated flat/curved spacetime disparity are confirmed, together with presenting a zero-dimensional quantum gravity paradigm termed as "zero quantum gravity" outlining QFT processes that prescribe a proposed zero-point gravitational field effect that can be tested experimentally. Here, the intention is not to disrupt or dispel the current quests for quantum gravity, yet to offer a current theoretic and experimental utility to the known mismatch between QFT and GR on that path to quantum gravity.