Month: April 2026
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How Does Motion Evolve Into Structure?
In the previous essay, I suggested that one plausible way to approach Einstein’s puzzle is to consider that spacetime may have emerged from a deeper, pre-geometric condition. If such an underlying substrate existed at the universe’s beginning, it would have formed alongside the universe itself and shared its earliest characteristics. Observation points to three defining…
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What Could Spacetime Geometry Emerge From?
In the previous essay, I asked what current physics would require if spacetime geometry were emergent rather than fundamental. Observation placed surprisingly strict demands on any deeper organization. Whatever lies beneath geometry would need to transmit influence across distance, preserve conservation relationships, respond dynamically to matter and energy, remain stable under extreme conditions, be Lorentz…
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Defining Einstein’s Unfamilar Category
The last six essays explored the puzzle left to us by Albert Einstein regarding spacetime. In General Relativity, spacetime is described mathematically as geometry, yet that geometry behaves as though it possesses physical properties. Spacetime therefore appears to belong to what Einstein once called an “unfamiliar category”, something neither ordinary matter nor mere abstraction. In…