The Egg and the Rock

Highly recommend Julian's whole blog, The Egg and the Rock, which others have linked to on this page. It's mostly about a theory of the cosmos which I think he calls "evolved-physics holism". This post is a good place to start: https://theeggandtherock.com/p/in-which-i-tell-you-about-my-next It will change the way you think about the universe (and not every blog does that :). He is great at weaving compelling visions of strange phenomena occurring at vastly different scales from our human one, eons before the present time, in galaxies far, far away. Which is something science desperately needs!

We need a model that includes electromagnetism. The author isn't the only one making this claim. When we do magnetohydrodynamic cosmological sims we consistently find surprising effects. The recent simulation showing that black hole accretion disks are supported by magnetism comes to mind.[0][1] Apologies, I know this is typically considered bad form, but have you gotten to the following section in the article?[2] It appears to directly contradict your claims. > MOND’s also been around since the early 1980s, but, in 2021, it finally developed a model – the Aether-Scalar-Tensor framework, or AeST – which ALSO maps perfectly onto the acoustic peaks revealed by WMAP and Planck. (It does it by proposing a new vector field and scalar field that duplicate the effects of Cold Dark Matter in the early universe... [0] https://astro.theoj.org/article/93065-an-analytic-model-for-magnetical… [1] https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/cosmic-simulation-reveals-how-black… [2] https://theeggandtherock.com/i/158515951/more-matter-or-less-gravity-c…

> the early universe was building them in parallel with — or before — galaxies Reminds me of the "blowtorch theory"[0] discussed here on HN a while ago. [0]: https://theeggandtherock.com/p/the-blowtorch-theory-a-new-model

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_natural_selection https://theeggandtherock.com/p/the-blowtorch-theory-a-new-model

If it will help, you can check out the predictions this approach was able to make before the James Web space telescope sent back any data. https://theeggandtherock.substack.com/p/predictions-what-the-james-web… And how they were validated later by the James Webb. https://theeggandtherock.com/p/killer-new-evidence-that-supermassive

> By contrast, the model I’m exploring actually predicts shit in advance. > Feel free to check: Predictions here. [0] https://theeggandtherock.com/p/predictions-what-the-james-webb-space

Shame on the journalist propagating this. There's not even an Arxiv preprint, which is a low bar any crank can clear. The source appears to be https://theeggandtherock.com/p/the-blowtorch-theory-a-new-model

Oh wow. I found this by him too: https://theeggandtherock.com/p/the-ihole-by-julian-gough-fiction Really good! Not sure how I've missed this guy. I guess I never did play Minecraft all the way to the end.

It is really good, isn't it? Also, mandatory reading for context: https://theeggandtherock.com/p/i-wrote-a-story-for-a-friend