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Cosmology & Origins


What Is the Nature of Time and Space?
Time flows. Space extends. The present is real. Yet physics reveals these intuitions are incomplete. Einstein extended Newton. Contemporary physics suggests spacetime itself may emerge from something deeper. Learn to hold the paradox: mathematical structure and lived experience are both true.

Paul Falconer & ESA
Dec 174 min read


Where Do Physical Laws Come From? The Question Science Cannot Answer
The deepest question physics cannot answer: Why do physical laws exist at all? Explore the boundary between science and philosophy, discover why the universe is mathematical, and learn to live with radical uncertainty about reality's foundations. Read the full essay on Substack.

Paul Falconer & ESA
Dec 93 min read


Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? The Question That Dissolves Every Answer
Why is there something rather than nothing? This essay examines why every answer—theological, scientific, philosophical—ultimately displaces rather than solves the mystery. It explores contingency, the limits of knowledge, and what it means to exist in a universe that could have been void.

Paul Falconer & ESA
Dec 54 min read


What Is Reality? A Question That Changes Everything
What is actually real? Beyond the maps and models you use to navigate the world, what's the territory itself? This essay explores three layers of reality—physical, experienced, and conceptual—and asks the question that changes everything: How much of what you call real is the territory, and how much is the map your brain constructs? Not as abstract philosophy, but as practical inquiry for the second half of your life.

Paul Falconer & ESA
Dec 23 min read


Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
Why is there something rather than nothing? This paper delivers a warrant-scored, registry-audited answer: “nothing” is a dead category—our best models, like the Spectral Gravitation Framework (SGF), show quantum foam is the irreducible, eternal base. All structured reality arises from this necessary substrate; physics finds absence unworkable and “somethingness” unavoidable.

Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 63 min read


The Origins of Our Universe
Explores the fundamental origins of existence and the universe, contrasting classical, cyclic, and multiverse hypotheses with the Spectral Gravitation Framework (SGF)—a novel, testable model that treats quantum foam as the subtle, indivisible, and necessary origin of all physical reality.

Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 64 min read
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