Nerd from birth, it seems, I was always fascinated by how things work. A cuckoo clock kit was meant to keep me busy all the Christmas holidays. But I heard Santa coming in, around midnight. Goodies! A fantastic puzzle to be solved. I sat bolt upright and got to work. It took a while. And it didn’t work. I’d got it wrong. So I took it apart and put it back together again. And it still didn’t work. Durrh! Complicated little things, mechanical clocks. So I took it apart again, and put it back together again. And it worked. Huge excitement. I rushed into my parents’ room to thank them and say how wonderful it all was. This was day break, or a bit before, Christmas monring. The reception was very, very, cool.
One of my vague lasting memories! My dear mother told me many years later that it was hugely expensive, and they bought it hoping it would keep me amused for the holidays. But geeks can’t stop! The takeaway is that knock three times often works.
Halfway though my life, the popular science genre exploded in the 1990s, and I read voraciously. This was like a miraculous extension of my love for science fiction. The whole point of SF for me is that it depicts a different type of world. New things are real or unreal, and different rules apply. It is a different type of system. The mechanism fascinates me, how it works, what does it mean? And here, suddenly, was a field of study delving into the workings of a totally different and unfamiliar type of world. But yet this was nonetheless the mechanics of this reality, here and now, in which I am actually living in. Turbogeek excitement.
Naturally, I never expected to have any new insights in the field of physics itself. That is pretty well covered these days. And that is not what I discovered. This is something else. It is literally metaphysics, outside physics, ‘bigger’. But the effects show up in physics. That is the weird of quantum mechanics. That is the ‘measurement problem’, and more besides. It is physics, but it is the physics of a different ‘bigger’ type of world.
Interest lead to systems analysis of the reality, and this lead to discovery. The whole basis of modern physics was stuck on a paradox. The trouble is that something not in the physics was actually happening, which of course made no sense. That is the ‘measurment problem’. What became clear is that the weirdness is a different type of thing going on. The solution is just a new perspective on the well-established science that has been discovered. There is no new physics in what I am describing. The explanation has been invisible becuase this is literally meta-physics, the bigger picture, the context in which everything is going on.
Just as in the most difficult programming bugs, something outside of the system was having an effect. So coming from an I.T. perspective, the resolution to the major longstanding paradox became strangely obvious. The incomprehensible aspects of modern physics are actually the physics of a different type of world, literally a ‘higher reality’! This is the physics of a ‘metaworld’, a ‘class-of-world-as-world’. This is actually the type of world you are actually in, right now. This is the shocker of the millennium.
The real world is a ‘metaworld’, meaning it is a world ‘made of’ the superpostion of a whole class of worlds. This is the meaning of quantum mechanics, the astonishing truth that has been discovered but not recognised. It seemed too weird to be possibly true, but now the full mathematial basis is discovered. This is a real scientific theorem.
Yes, it all sounds a bit unlikely. It is well known that the days of the lone theorist making a significant discovery are long gone. But this is exactly what happens with each ‘scientific revolution’ as Thomas Kuhn documented. New evidence appears, revealing new framework. As Kuhn makes clear, the breakthroug each time is the new ‘lexicon’, the form and language of the new worldview.
This time the new perspective is logical type. Once I began to realise the implications, I found myself compelled to do my best to communicate the ideas. It means there is much more to us, and very much more to life, than we have ever understood. The implications are profound. Observer-dependent reality is not just philosophical speculation but what the physics demonstrates. The incomprehensible holographic universe is not a flaw but a feature. It is not a cosmological curiosity buit the physical reality one inhabits. What appeared as quantum paradoxes resolve into natural features of metaworld architecture.
This framework connects physics with questions humanity has pondered for millennia, but through rigorous science rather than speculation. The convergence is remarkable, and worth exploring carefully.
All the reference material for this work will be available at Avant Garde Science.
New book soon.