Derek Frangos

Most theories add complexity. This one reduces everything to a boundary. Designed to fail fast if it’s wrong. No extra dimensions. No new particles. Just relations already in the data. Asymmetry builds. Saturation ends. zenodo.org/records/174747… zenodo.org/records/180415…

@AshtonForbes @kparrish51 The vacuum matters less than the asymmetry at the boundary.

There will be a deluge of academics who don’t understand physics claiming this violates the laws of thermodynamics. They are idiots. I’ve been explaining how this works for three years. Space isn’t empty.

@kasratweets The rare part is return.

it's lowkey incredibly hard to find people who are really smart but also really grounded/awake. there is almost an inverse relationship between the two because of how quickly your mind can run you out of your own body and awareness. it's like trying to find someone who is extremely big and strong but also is able to pass through extremely tight spaces. but such people do exist, and it's really quite special when you encounter them

@pmddomingos The bottleneck is shifting from access to discernment.

AI can’t generate new scientific ideas, but neither can most scientists.

@amarchenkova Stability saturates capacity.

hearing some new exciting logical qubit noise coming! However, some caveats. We went from "qubits means nothing" to "logical qubits mean sort of nothing" and I know, it's frustrating. The same physical chip can be carved up a bunch of different ways, with lots of weakly protected logicals, or a few well protected ones. It's a budget. 1,000 physical qubits might buy you 100 logicals with light protection, or 30 with medium surface code, or 2 logicals. It all depends on what you want to DO with them. Since errors stack across a circuit, gates give more noise. Run a shallow benchmark and you don't need much protection. Run something deep, like Shor's algorithm, a deep circuit, chemistry simulations that go for millions of operations, the logical qubits use more physical qubits, because the errors compound. More protection = bigger code = more physical qubits per logical = fewer logicals total. That's why you sometimes see 1000:1 ratios for codes, or 2:1. So next up to ask: – What's the code distance? – Is this error detection or error correction? (iceberg ≠ surface code, very different beasts) – What's the two-qubit logical gate fidelity? – What's the circuit that was run?

@calmandfree23 No need.

@DerekCFrangos Was it designed to be uneven?

Equilibrium is unreachable.

@Kaju_Nut The problem isn’t so much intuition as it is failing to filter and isolate.

A major failure mode of 20th century physicists was following their intuition about nature over what the theory was saying. Einstein, Eddington and others dismissed black holes because they appeared bizarre even though the math said they could exist. Hoyle resisted Big Bang because he could not accept that the universe had a beginning. Dirac, Heisenberg and others refused to accept the ugliness of renormalization. Since then, most physicists learned the lesson that successful theories are smarter than even the smartest of us. If a theory works, we are ready to follow it to its logical conclusions, however counter-intuitive. To outsiders, this can look like physicists losing their minds and embracing outlandish ideas. But they are following the lesson of history. Those who instead dismiss such ideas are, like Hoyle and others, in danger of being misled by their intuition.

@calmandfree23 Because the boundary is uneven.

@DerekCFrangos Because shits always moving?

@Shaun_Fosmark The universe persists resolving unresolvable imbalance.

The early universe didnt END and suddenly ours began, our universe IS the early universe. The big bang didnt HAPPEN, its happening right now.

@cosmosarcive Strangeness is still not randomness.

The universe is beyond imagination.

@ARIKAHENRY We can only discern what persists collectively.

How do we decide which perception is the "real" one?

@Andercot Life is thermodynamics under pressure.

Interesting that there is such a thing as "anti-entropic force" and it is basically "whatever intelligent life is trying to do" and that this is somehow fundamentally connected to the forwards arrow of time.

@RichUniverse_ Constraint geometry will keep surfacing underneath information flow.

The latest work coming out of Johns Hopkins University and University of Toronto is increasingly focused on one central question: Is spacetime fundamental, or does it emerge from deeper informational and quantum structures? Johns Hopkins University The emergent spacetime holography quantum gravity dark matter gravitational waves information theory in cosmology One of the most important directions there comes from Sean Carroll, who is exploring how spacetime itself may emerge from quantum states in Hilbert space rather than existing fundamentally. The origin of locality Lorentz invariance the “problem of time” how Einstein’s equations may arise statistically from quantum information structures That is a major shift in physics: instead of quantizing spacetime directly, researchers ask whether spacetime is a large-scale emergent phenomenon. JH focuses on: black hole thermodynamics holography early universe inflation quantum gravity signatures in gravitational waves Researchers like Marc Kamionkowski and Emanuele Berti are working on ways future observatories could detect deviations from Einstein’s gravity, potentially revealing quantum structure in spacetime itself. A newer development is the hiring of cosmologist Benjamin Wandelt, whose work combines: cosmology AI large-scale data analysis statistical reconstruction of the universe This reflects a broader trend: modern cosmology is becoming deeply tied to information theory and machine learning. One especially fascinating recent finding involved a newly identified object called “Cloud 9”: a dark-matter-rich gas cloud with no stars, thought to be a relic from early galaxy formation. It may help scientists understand: dark matter structure early galaxy evolution primordial cosmological conditions University of Toronto The University of Toronto, especially through the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA), is heavily involved in: black hole physics cosmology gravitational waves early universe physics dark matter and dark energy One recent breakthrough involved evidence for a type of stellar explosion called a pair-instability supernova. These explosions are so violent they completely destroy the star: no neutron star remains no black hole remains This helped confirm why certain “forbidden-mass” black holes likely originate from earlier black hole mergers instead of direct stellar collapse. That matters because: it changes models of black hole formation affects gravitational-wave cosmology helps map how heavy black holes evolve across cosmic time Toronto researchers are also deeply connected to: LIGO/Virgo gravitational-wave astronomy quantum cosmology precision mapping of cosmic structure The larger trend both universities are moving toward Both institutions are converging on the same frontier ideas: Reality may be informational at its deepest level Not in a mystical sense, but physically: entropy quantum correlations holography computation statistical emergence are increasingly central to cosmology. Gravity may emerge rather than be fundamental Instead of gravity being a basic force, some models treat it as: thermodynamic entropic emergent from microscopic quantum structure Spacetime itself may not be fundamental This is one of the biggest conceptual revolutions happening right now. The emerging possibility is: spacetime behaves more like a macroscopic phenomenon arising from deeper quantum informational relationships. A major 2026 trend across cosmology is the push toward experimentally testable quantum gravity. Researchers are now developing frameworks that could allow: LIGO interferometers gravitational-wave detectors to search for tiny fluctuations in spacetime itself. If successful, this would be historic because: for the first time, quantum gravity theories could move from pure mathematics into measurable physics. That is one of the biggest transitions currently happening in cosmology.

@AndraMaguran Signal is buried fast under spectacle. Communities select for what they reward.

No one is going to give Ufology the time of day when half the spaces are the most depraved, disgusting, foul, adolescent spaces on the Internet.

@KateXGate I was struck by the inverse relationship between horizon entropy and dark energy as a dimensionless geometric constraint. The asymmetry survived every reduction. I started treating the error itself as the selector, and the rest followed.

@DerekCFrangos What are the gates, what do you think is deciding the yes or no to begin with- talking substrates. Hydrogen? What's deciding on the error to enact the gradient? I love statements like yours and I'm tracking I'm genuinely curious how you got there.

Score one for the “intelligence is emergent” team. The first hints of cognition may not appear as “thought” at all but as geometry learning how to organize itself. Intelligence may emerge wherever sufficiently rich relational geometry begins recursively organizing information flow. Not programmed. Formed.

@Midnightballoon ~10^122 bits

the computer simulating the universe must have pretty good graphics cards

@MacrinePhD Life, uh, finds a stable asymmetry within the flow.

Why does life exist? It might come down to the perfect flow. New research suggests the Universe’s fundamental constants are finely tuned to a narrow "sweet spot" that allows liquids—like blood and cellular fluid—to flow properly. Even a tiny shift in physics could make water as thick as tar, making life impossible. This discovery adds a stunning new layer to the mystery of cosmic fine-tuning! sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/… #ScienceNews #Physics #Biology #FineTuning #QueenMaryUniversity #Evolution #Cosmology #DeepScience #ScienceTwitter

@Faltz009 Irreducible asymmetry.

You guys don't know everyrhing and it shows (few exceptions) 👀 There are quite a few ways you can encode the observable structures of reality in a single symbol to hand to an otherworldly being to describe the laws of our universe I mean, that's the audience right? I'd pick one of these Whats the smallest symbol you can compress Euler's identity into?

@ThedawnIAM Probability is unresolved geometric selection.

At the quantum level, everything is probability.