About me

This project did not start with physics.

Until 2020, I never dreamed of discovering anything related to physics. To be honest, I never even liked physics. It always seemed “made up” to me — less real than logic or algorithms.

Physicists had formulas that were useful for predicting the behavior of matter, and they used those formulas to calculate things. But why these formulas? Why the principle of least action, for example? Where did it come from?

For some reason, I always liked logic more than formulas.

So I became a programmer.

An average programmer, earning modest money on projects that did not feel very important.

From time to time I had ideas that seemed beautiful to implement. Usually I went only as far as simple prototypes, small websites, or small projects — and then stopped after they received no traction.

My last such idea was related to travel.

To test it, my wife and I started a travel blog in 2019. We had several car trips planned through a service I created. We shared those plans with our followers, and then showed how those plans turned into reality.

I hoped that maybe, if the idea was interesting enough, it would get traction and we would quickly build a large audience.

The miracle I expected did not happen.

At our peak we had around 5,600 followers. Later, because of business problems and the COVID restrictions that became reality in 2020, we had to stop the blog project.

It looked like another failure.

But while working on posts for that blog, I got stuck on a question that led me to another idea.

I was asking myself: how can it be that some people say we should “live for today”, while others say we should “live for tomorrow”? How can both ideas exist? Which one is right? And how is it possible that our goals can change during our lives?

Then one idea struck me:

What if we do not live for specific goals, but for changes?

The idea sounds ordinary until you connect it with genetic algorithms.

As a programmer, you know those classical algorithms where you apply randomness and selection rules, and somehow they solve certain classes of problems — including biological evolution.

So I started thinking: what if we, as humans, are being “randomized” too? What if our creator, whoever or whatever that is, gave us an evolutionary algorithm that makes us change our life goals?

The idea that all humans — including me — might be manipulated by something unknown that periodically makes us change our lives seemed scary and beautiful at the same time.

I tried to justify this idea and prove it to the world, because it felt like my baby. I posted about it in my blog, but again there was not much traction.

Still, I loved the idea. I had to save it. I had to let it survive.

So I started digging.

I read about biology and psychology, looking for anything that could support or challenge the idea. Eventually I came to the conclusion that what makes us change our lives — not necessarily for the better — is a biological instinct.

Our happiness, eureka moments, depression, obsessions, and changing goals may all have algorithmic reasons.

Nature gave us an algorithm that made us build civilization. This algorithm is what makes us different from other animals.

In short, I call it the instinct to change the world our way.

That model seemed logical and novel, so I shared it and tried to show evidence. Still no success. I discovered that biologists and psychologists are not eager to hear a “novel idea” from someone outside their fields.

So I kept digging.

At some point I asked myself: how can I prove that I am controlled by an algorithm?

The answer I found was unexpected: I would have to find and show the low-level algorithm of matter.

The logic was simple:

If matter executes an algorithm, and we consist of matter, then we execute algorithms as well. If we accept that, then human behavior can be studied as an algorithmic continuation of matter itself.

Maybe trying to find the algorithm of matter is not the most reasonable way for a programmer to spend his time. But by then I could not stop. It was 2020, COVID restrictions were everywhere, and the future was unclear. I had nothing to do but keep digging.

So I started reading and watching everything I could find about special relativity, general relativity, and quantum mechanics.

In other words, I turned into what physicists call a “crank”.

And, in short, I succeeded.

I found a possible algorithm that matched what I had been looking for:

particles are cyclic machines.

To be honest, my expectations at that moment were not very strict. The algorithm only had to explain, at least qualitatively, limited speed, inertia, and the existence of rest mass.

But just like with psychologists and biologists, I found out that physicists also do not like people who appear from nowhere with “novel ideas”.

So I kept trying to prove, at least to myself, that I was not an idiot. I tried to find evidence that the model was right.

It took me maybe three months to “solve” humans. It took me maybe half a year to discover what I believe is the true nature of reality and to partially find the algorithm of matter. It took me three months to find predictions that would disprove Special Relativity (“slow photons”).

Then I spent six years testing and developing these ideas.

Now I have something to show.

I have evidence and predictions to show you. I think I understand what elementary particles do, but I still do not know how they interact.

Also, I understand what humans do and why.