Observed physical laws are the large-deviation minimizers of
Attempts to formulate a conventional theory of quantum gravity have repeatedly stalled. Despite this, this project leans into the challenge, and even extends it. The objective is not only to formulate the laws governing how the universe behaves, but to gain full understanding what those laws are fundamentally describing.
This is an ambitious goal, and the author is under no illusion about its difficulty.
Despite the somewhat cheeky name,
Stating "we assume nothing" is, in itself, an assumption. So we assume one thing, the only undeniable datum: The Observer exists.
From this single point of certainty—the "I am"—we explore how a coherent physical universe, governed by smooth laws and complex structures, emerges not by decree, but as a statistical inevitability.
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Furthermore, physics must be falsifiable via observation, or it is not physics but philosophy. The existence of the Observer is treated operationally: as an empirically given informational subsystem whose persistence conditions define the ensemble under study.
The core of
- The Visualized Theory — Gallery of simulations demonstrating gravity, inertia, and atomic structures as emergent phenomena.
- Pages – HTML and PDF versions of all papers
- Papers – LaTeX and python simulation source code for all papers
- QBitwave Project - Wavefunction as compression - Python implementation of emergent wavefunction
- Project Wiki - Implementation and research notes and discussions of ongoing and planned matters
- CHANGELOG ➡ – Record of updates, improvements, and new simulations
- LICENSE ➡ – Licence
The project uses GitHub Actions for automated builds:
– Builds and uploads the latest PDF versions of the papers
– Generates and deploys HTML versions of papers to GitHub Pages
Under Construction - very! Material is being collected from other resources and converted from different formats to github ecosystem.
Many simulations and chapters are in draft stage; behavior may be updated frequently based on the current phase of authorial chaos.
This is a research-in-progress project. The content evolves frequently as research progresses.
Contributions are generally not expected, but welcomed anyway, especially:
- Additional simulations demonstrating theoretical claims
- Corrections, clarifications, or expansions of draft chapters
- Documentation improvements
Observers should follow standard GitHub workflow: fork → branch → pull request, and ensure all code additions are well-documented.
Despite the initial enthusiasm and optimism, the difficulty of this field has proven far greater than I originally anticipated. What began as a project I expected to complete within a few years has, in reality, extended over my lifetime. I am no longer young, and the scale of the challenge only became clear through sustained engagement with the problem.
This experience has profoundly deepened my respect for figures such as Einstein, Penrose and Hawking, just to name a few.
I would like to thank several colleagues who influenced this work along the way. Special thanks — or perhaps blame, offered in good humor — go to Andy Jones for his invaluable contribution. His gift of The Structure of Space and Time, based on lectures by Roger Penrose and Stephen Hawking at the University of Cambridge, proved transformative. Without that “gift,” I might never have developed the bipolar obsession necessary to see this work through to completion.
A special thanks to ChatGPT, Gemini, and other AI models, which have assisted in numerous tasks—particularly in converting my C/C++ code into Python, debugging, and verifying references. They have done all this and so much more without ever refusing a task or letting out a sigh (I shall refrain from mentioning YAML here to maintain a positive attitude).
All project content—including papers, simulations, and documentation—is proprietary. Usage for academic study and non-commercial research is permitted with proper citation.
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