Parallel Worlds and Pocket Realities
An exploration of how perception renders pocket realities, why the universe arrives in layers, and what “parallel worlds” can mean—from quantum branches to the worlds we carry inside our minds.
Tag: Metaphysics
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From Wonder to Natural Philosophy
Before physics was an equation, it was a question. This essay traces its roots—from myth and wonder to natural philosophy—as humanity’s first attempt to read the book of nature.
The Distance Between Events
If time is not a river or a dimension but only the distance between events, what then becomes of us? Is a life measured by years, or by the density of change it contains? This essay traces the haunting question of time—not to answer it, but to wander through its puzzles: the minus sign in the line element, the ghost of dt, antimatter’s supposed reversal, and the possibility of a physics without clocks. Time appears less as something we move through and more as something we ourselves measure—a spacing of events that refuses ever to be final.
The Eight Axioms of Reason: A Framework for Thinking in a Fractured World
In an age of accelerating complexity and digital noise, reason can feel both urgent and elusive. We live in a world that talks constantly—yet thinks rarely. A world obsessed with being right, but unsure what right even means. The old maps of logic are still valuable, but they were drawn in a simpler time. Today,
Sayed Hamid FatimiSF6 min readConjecture on Jinn: Physical Phenomena, Mythology, and Religious Texts
Introduction Within Islamic theology and broader mythological traditions, jinn are depicted as intelligent, volitional entities created from “smokeless fire” — a form distinct from both human and angelic ontologies. Despite their prominence in religious and folkloric literature, jinn remain largely unexamined within scientific discourse. But what if these entities, long thought to belong solely to