Tag: gravity

🌀 Radial Genesis: A Universe That Grows from Within

What if space isn’t a container — but a consequence?

That’s the question I explore in my latest paper, Radial Genesis: A Finite Universe with Emergent Spacetime Geometry, now available on ResearchGate.

The core idea is surprisingly simple — and deeply rooted in general relativity: matter and energy don’t just move through space. They define it. Every object with mass–energy generates its own curved, local geometry. If we take that seriously, then maybe the Universe itself isn’t expanding into something. Maybe it’s unfolding from within — one energy event, one radial patch of space at a time.

This new paper builds on two earlier lecture-style essays on general relativity. But unlike those, this one has no equations — just plain language and geometric reasoning. It’s written for thinkers, not specialists. And yes, co-written with GPT-4 again — in what I call a “creative but critical spirit.”

We also explore:

  • Why the Universe might be finite and still expanding;
  • How a mirror version of electromagnetism could explain dark matter;
  • Why the so-called cosmological constant may be a placeholder for our conceptual gaps;
  • And whether our cosmos is just one region in a greater, radially unfolding whole — with no center, and no edge.

If you like cosmology grounded in Einstein, Dirac, and Feynman — but with fresh eyes and minimal metaphysics — this one’s for you.

🧠 Read it here:
Radial Genesis on ResearchGate

👁️‍🗨️ For context, you might also want to check out the earlier lecture papers:

—JL

🌀 A Bug on a Sphere — And Other Ways to Understand Gravity

I just published a new lecture — not on quantum physics this time, but on general relativity. It’s titled Lecture on General Relativity and, like my earlier papers, it’s written in collaboration with GPT-4 — who, as I’ve said before, might just be the best teacher I (n)ever had.

We start simple: imagine a little bug walking across the surface of a sphere. From there, we build up the full machinery of general relativity — metric tensors, covariant derivatives, Christoffel symbols, curvature, and ultimately Einstein’s beautiful but not-so-easy field equations.

What makes this lecture different?

  • No string theory.
  • No quantum gravity hype.
  • No metaphysical hand-waving about time being an illusion.

Just geometry — and the conviction that Einstein’s insight still deserves to be understood on its own terms before we bolt anything speculative onto it.

If you’ve enjoyed earlier pieces like Beautiful, but Blind: How AI Amplifies Both Insight and Illusion, or my more pointed criticism of pseudo-GUTs here, this one is part of the same lineage: a call to return to clarity.

📝 You can read or download the full lecture here on ResearchGate — or reach out if you want a cleaner PDF. — JL