Tag: nothingbecomes
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The Universe in a Single Atom
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…
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Causal Fermion Systems and Nothing Becomes
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…
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What Inspired Nothing Becomes and Living in the Moment?
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,…
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The Question I Hadn’t Asked
“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…
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Dual Descriptions and the Shape of Convergence
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…
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Paperback Now Available
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!