Month: June 2026
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Tracing the Origin of Spacetime: What the First Ten Essays Reveal
This is the eleventh essay in a series exploring the origin and description of spacetime, which began with the simple question: What is curving? The question itself is rarely addressed directly. Yet in a 1920 lecture, Einstein noted that spacetime presents a puzzle. It is described as geometry, but it also exhibits substance-like properties. Because…
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Why Did Supermassive Black Holes Form So Early?
In this essay series I have been exploring Einstein’s puzzle of spacetime as a physical category (see essay #3). One possibility considered was that spacetime may emerge from some deeper, pre-geometric substrate rather than existing as a substance in its own right. If such a condition existed, observation suggests it was expanding, and that continued…