Topic

physics

3 essays follow this thread across the codex.

The Node We Call Now

Suppose only one universe exists at a time, and every future is drawn from a probabilistic tree growing out of the present, the way a learning agent’s next state follows from its last. Quantum physics has a surprising amount to say about that picture—where it holds, where it breaks, and whether thinking in branches can change which branch comes.
Physics · September 2026 · 18 min
The Theory of Invariants That Was Named After Its Shadows

If everything depends on the frame of reference, how can the speed of light be the same from every one of them? Is it really? And what does it mean to call everything relative while pinning the whole edifice to a constant? The honest answer is that relativity is not about what is relative. It is about what is not—and it was given the wrong name.
Physics · September 2026 · 18 min
Does Time Flow, or Do We?

Physics keeps taking time apart—no universal now, laws that run equally backward, no ticking t at the bottom of things. Yet a fly outruns your hand because its moment is finer than yours, and a childhood summer outlasted a decade—two truths that refuse to be one.
Philosophy · July 2026 · 13 min