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relativity

2 essays follow this thread across the codex.

The Theory of Invariants That Was Named After Its Shadows

If everything depends on the frame of reference, how can the speed of light be the same from every one of them? Is it really? And what does it mean to call everything relative while pinning the whole edifice to a constant? The honest answer is that relativity is not about what is relative. It is about what is not—and it was given the wrong name.
Physics · September 2026 · 18 min
Does Time Flow, or Do We?

Physics keeps taking time apart—no universal now, laws that run equally backward, no ticking t at the bottom of things. Yet a fly outruns your hand because its moment is finer than yours, and a childhood summer outlasted a decade—two truths that refuse to be one.
Philosophy · July 2026 · 13 min