Information is Physical
Theoretical Physics,
Tested in Public
The Ic² Research Institute develops the COSMIC Framework, an information-first approach to unifying physics. It keeps every confirmed result of quantum mechanics, general relativity and thermodynamics, and asks what lies beneath them: why quantum theory and gravity will not combine, what dark energy is, what happens at a singularity, and where the observer belongs in physical law.
Our predictions face the same instruments as everyone else’s. Results from DESI, JWST, ALMA and Google’s Willow processor are consistent with the framework, though none was predicted on the record in advance. The first pre-registered tests, DESI’s five-year analysis and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, report next, followed by Euclid and the Simons Observatory. The teams running those instruments have no stake in the outcome, and their data is released publicly. Readers set their own price for the book.
The Quest
How an Idea Meets the World
Nothing on the Moon moves dust. The bootprints left there in 1969 are still exactly where they were put: a dated mark that cannot be edited afterward. The institute keeps that kind of record of an idea. It documents, in public, what happens to a theory once it leaves the page: who reads it, who funds it, who tests it, and what they find. We follow each road a theory can take, through academia, government programs, business and the open routes independent researchers use, and record what each one asks, how long it takes and what comes back. Every step is set down before the result is known, and every outcome is part of the record, because each one adds to what is known.
More: about the Quest and the Open Science Policy it follows.
Background: Apollo 11 bootprint in lunar soil, 20 July 1969. NASA, AS11-40-5878.
Read the Full Argument
A Quest for The Big TOE sets out the COSMIC Framework in full: the argument, the mathematics, the results it accounts for and the pre-registered tests still to come. What you pay for it is up to you.
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