A Universe-of-One
What if your mind were the only one that truly exists? Modern physics has been moving toward the observer for a century. This book takes that thread and pulls it all the way—rebuilding quantum mechanics, spacetime, and cosmology around a single perspective. Not as metaphor, but as architecture.
Modern physics has quietly been moving toward the observer for a century. Quantum mechanics collapses when you look. Spacetime is relative to your motion. Information is what you can extract. The universe seems to exist in relation to measurement.
This book takes that thread and pulls it all the way.
Starting from solipsism—the idea that only your own mind is certain—it rebuilds physics around a single observer. Not as metaphor, but as architecture. What does quantum mechanics look like when there's genuinely one perspective? What is spacetime when it's woven around a single worldline? Where does the information paradox go when there's no "outside" to count bits?
Each chapter takes a cornerstone of modern physics and asks: what if this was always about you?
Quantum mechanics, QBism, and Wheeler's participatory universe already place the observer at center stage. What if we took that seriously?
The information paradox arises from conflicting observer descriptions. With only one observer, the conflict dissolves.
Why are the constants of nature perfect for life? In a universe-of-one, they're not coincidence—they're necessity.
If experience is fundamental, what distinguishes waking perception from dreams? Less than you might think.
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