The Big Questions
Everything transforms.
Stars ignite, ecosystems adapt, civilizations rise and fracture, companies grow and collapse, people change — sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse.
But the deeper questions remain:
Is there a universal mechanism behind how potential becomes real?
Can systems learn to work with that mechanism instead of against it?
The Physics of Everything explores these questions through Genesis — a proposed physics of the meso-scale, the domain where humans, organizations, and civilizations live.
This is open research. Every reader is a potential collaborator, critic, or validator.
The Crisis (and the Opportunity)
Humanity’s greatest crisis is unrealized potential.
Not because potential is rare — but because most systems can’t convert what they have into what they could become.
Potential isn’t passive. It behaves like stored energy:
constructive when released well, destructive when blocked.
People have it. Organizations have it. Cities, cultures, and institutions have it.
When potential can’t transform constructively, it corrodes — in individuals, teams, companies, and civilizations.
If we can understand how generative change works, we can learn to:
activate dormant value,
route energy toward what matters,
and prevent destructive cascades before they begin.
That’s the opportunity.
What You’ll Find Here
Two parallel tracks:
1. Transformation literacy
Plain-language explainers of Genesis Theory:
how systems maintain themselves (Existence Physics),
how they transform (Transformation Dynamics),
how potential becomes reality (Potential Physics).
This is the emerging Transformation Science — the discipline that studies how organized systems survive and become.
2. Scientific validation
How do we know if Genesis is right?
Through:
retrodictions (explaining known past transformations),
predictions (falsifiable forecasts),
diagnostics,
calibration studies,
and transparent quarterly updates — successes and failures included.
Everything is published publicly.
Regular content includes:
pattern exploration across scales (cellular → human → organizational → civilizational)
practical transformation diagnostics
analysis of systems, stories, histories, and failures
alternative histories and counterfactual simulations
community-driven requests and open Q&A
research updates with honest confidence levels
Why Genesis?
Genesis proposes that the same physics governing cell death and battery corrosion also governs burnout, company collapse, political fragmentation, and civilizational decline.
Not metaphorically.
Thermodynamically.
If true, then transformation is not mysterious or artistic — it is engineerable.
If false, we discover exactly where thermodynamic reasoning breaks in social complexity.
Either outcome advances understanding.
Stay up-to-date
Every post is delivered directly to your inbox.
For an ad-free, distraction-free experience — plus audio and community features — download the Substack app.
For theorists and scientists
Genesis is a testable hypothesis, not established fact.
The four SIRF functions come from validated physics.
The synthesis — that these functions form a complete minimal set, that the pattern is universal, that capacity obeys the proposed equations — requires testing.
All predictions, failures, and updates are published transparently.
If you’re interested in the validation program or want to run your own falsification tests, you’re welcome here.
Get Involved
Review the research
Run your own tests or replications
Share observations from your domain
Challenge the theory (we publish critiques)
Request analyses (systems, stories, cases, histories)
Email: (we’ll update this once you choose the new address)
Or submit through the contact form.
