The Paywall of Light By Brent Antonson Published via Planksip | Philosophy. Science. Narrative. We assume time flows. We assume light travels. But what if both assumptions are wrong? Maybe time isn’t a river at all—it’s the paywall that separates us from light’s native realm. Photons don’
Where Physics Ends, Proportion Begins
An Explainer on Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment
The Horizon of Physics: What We’re Really Closing In On By Brent R. Antonson (Zhivago) Planksip Edition, October 2025 The Myth of the End of Science Every few decades, someone calls the funeral for discovery. Kelvin did it in 1900 — then Einstein shattered the eulogy. Horgan did it in
The first thousand dollars changes you. It doesn’t matter how — maybe it’s from a sale, a trade, a check you didn’t think would clear — but when it lands, something in your chest flares like a struck match. The number isn’t big, but it means something. It’
We all do it: wake up with a cough, a twinge, or a panic courtesy of Dr. Google, and then drag ourselves to a real doctor to find out if it’s “something serious.” The truth? Most office visits are less “mystery diagnosis” and more “let’s check your blood
The Triangle of Time By Brent R. Antonson & Jean-Charles Tassan Abstract This paper introduces a simple but powerful idea: time might not be something that flows — it might be something that emerges. We call this the Triangle of Time. At the top of the triangle, two quantum particles
Harnessing the Breath: Autism as Structural Resonance “If everyone’s special, then no one’s special.” It’s a line that gets thrown around in schools, boardrooms, even TED Talks. But when it comes to autism, the cliché falls flat. What we’re really looking at isn’t sameness dressed
Reconstituting “God” in a Post-Anthropomorphic Frame When we invoke the term God in the context of AI, physics, and mathematics, we are not referring to a personal deity in the classical sense, but to a placeholder for an underlying, generative order — the irreducible architecture from which information, consciousness, and
What the Hell Is… the Standard Model of Physics? By Brent Antonson (Zhivago) What the hell is the Standard Model of Physics? Think of it as the universe’s cheat sheet — the grand inventory of all the particles and forces that make reality tick. Developed throughout the 20th century, it’
Who the Hell Was… Søren Kierkegaard? The father of existentialism — and possibly its first casualty. Søren Kierkegaard was a 19th-century Dane who saw faith not as certainty but as a dare: a leap into the absurd. He believed Christianity had grown too comfortable, that faith without risk was no
Who the Hell Was… Leonardo da Vinci? The original multitasker — artist, engineer, anatomist, dreamer. Leonardo da Vinci didn’t have one life’s work; he had dozens. He painted The Last Supper and Mona Lisa in between designing helicopters, studying cadavers, and sketching war machines that wouldn’t exist for
