Category: Books

  • The Universe in a Single Atom

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    Bob Hoyng
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    With the work on Nothing Becomes and Living in the Moment complete, I’ve turned my focus even deeper on those ideas. During the work on Nothing Becomes, I was introduced to a Buddhist thinker Nagarjuna, who I plan on examining deeply in a future book. However, Nagarjuna’s work is highly demanding, and I want to…

  • One Year Later…

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    Bob Hoyng
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    It’s now been about one year since I started my self-work that led to the experience that launched both of my books and my general calling to writing. I wanted to spend a moment reflecting on that experience. All along, what was beneath the surface in all of my seeking was a desire to have…

  • Causal Fermion Systems and Nothing Becomes

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    Bob Hoyng
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    I’ve always been upfront that my work comes from a lay perspective – observational, philosophical, and based on personal experience. Even so, I’ve argued there’s potential in these ideas for formal mathematical models of reality. Recently, I watched an interview Curt Jaimungal did with Felix Finster on Youtube. While I can’t claim to follow all…

  • What Inspired Nothing Becomes and Living in the Moment?

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    Bob Hoyng
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    Early this year, I went through a period of deep introspection. I was trying to resolve any issues I’d left in the background of my life – working through who I was and what that meant for how I moved through the world. I set about the process of identifying baggage I was still carrying,…

  • The Question I Hadn’t Asked

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    Bob Hoyng
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    “Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it – in a decade, a century, or a millennium – we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise?”John Archibald WheelerNothing Becomes was born of an experience that I’ve come to understand was my mind’s…

  • Living in the Moment

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    Bob Hoyng
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    I spent decades with a mind that wouldn’t shut up. Intrusive thoughts, existential questions, endless loops of regret and anxiety. Meditation helped, philosophy helped, but something was still missing. Then came the moment of alignment I describe in Nothing Becomes – one quiet moment that changed everything. But here’s what I didn’t fully address in…

  • Dual Descriptions and the Shape of Convergence

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    Bob Hoyng
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    The Value of Alternative Descriptions I came to an important realization while thinking about the relationship between physical and informational descriptions of reality: even if information is “just” describing an underlying physical substrate, that doesn’t diminish its value as a framework. Physics already accepts this principle through “dual descriptions” – different mathematical formulations that describe…

  • Paperback Now Available

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    Bob Hoyng
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    Just an update, the paperback version of Nothing Becomes is available from Amazon now! I’m excited to have the book fully available now, and look forward to hearing from readers about it, especially when I start visiting local bookstores and libraries in the next few months!

  • The Meaning Behind the Image

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    Bob Hoyng
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    From the cover of the book to the publishing company materials, I’ve used the image above as a recurring motif. It carries a deep meaning – one rooted in my vision of the void – and I wanted to share that here. I call the image Emergence. It weaves together three distinct ideas: The outer…

  • Nothing Becomes Release Date

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    Bob Hoyng
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    Substrate Books is proud to announce the upcoming release of Nothing Becomes, a book that explores the miracle of existence through the lenses of cosmology, consciousness, and quiet attention. This is not a book of answers – it’s a book of presence. A vessel for questions that don’t resolve, but resonate. Release Date: Nothing Becomes…