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Dug Dug
I am a natural philosopher and a writer. I write the way I think: with an open mind, with discipline and with a soft spot for ideas that don’t just sound beautiful but also dare to mean something.
I’m drawn to the big questions regarding our universe, but I don’t let them drift. When I introduce a concept, I want it to become sharp, to draw a boundary and to leave no room for talking around it. I write for readers who think along and talk back, even with a raised eyebrow.
Because that is exactly the attitude you need if you want to understand the universe without fooling yourself.
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The Universe is not what it seems
The Universe Is Not What It Seems presents an alternative philosophical and cosmological framework for understanding the universe. It begins with the idea that reality is fundamentally rooted in an ever-present zero-point field, from which space, time, energy, matter, and information emerge as different expressions of the same underlying structure. Our universe is proposed not as something created from nothing, but as a stable phase of this field, taking the form of a finite

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Sep 72 min read
Cloud-9 under the line-width thermometer: implications for halo concentration and a constraint on Λm³ in superfluid dark matter
Abstract Cloud-9 is a starless, gas-rich dark-matter halo candidate near M94 and a leading candidate for a Reionization-Limited H I Cloud (RELHIC). Its lack of stars removes stellar-feedback explanations for a shallow central potential and makes the H I distribution an unusually clean probe of halo structure. We re-analyse the published VLA column-density profile with two independent reconstruction and modelling pipelines applied to different published representations of the

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Sep 72 min read
The Moon Is Not an Extractive Colony
(the same text is available in Dutch below this English text) We often speak about the Moon as if it were an empty rock. A dead object, a grey plain, a future construction site. In the language of space programs, it is increasingly described as a platform, a base, a resource hub and a stepping stone to Mars. But this is exactly where the problem begins. As soon as a world is reduced to a platform, its fate is already half decided. What was once a celestial body suddenly becom

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Jun 917 min read
The Zero-Point Field as the Carrying Layer of the Path Integral
Field Response, Three-Sphere, History Kernels, and the Supporting Role of GLV Abstract Introduction Ontological starting point: field first, particle later The three-sphere as global mode structure From field propagator to path integral Working model: a global de Sitter background How the zero-point field gives histories their weight The eikonal bridge and the supporting role of GLV Entanglement as a parallel case Testability Conclusion

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Apr 201 min read
Beyond the Catalog: Diffuse Hydrogen, Past Light Cones, and the Epistemic Limits of Cosmology
Abstract The recent HETDEX census of Lyα nebulae does more than expand a catalog of hydrogen-bearing structures in the early universe. By analyzing 70,691 Lyα-emitting galaxies and finding significant extended emission in 33,612 of them, while also showing that standard point-source-weighted measurements underestimate total Lyα flux by about 30% on average, the study demonstrates how strongly cosmic inventories depend on survey design, surface-brightness sensitivity, and extr

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Apr 116 min read
Entanglement as Reproducible Correlations of a Shared Field State
Abstract Quantum entanglement is frequently portrayed in popular explanations as "direct influence at a distance," evoking images of instantaneous interactions between separated particles. However, experimental practice reveals a fundamentally different picture: entanglement is not a signaling mechanism but a reproducible pattern of correlations between local measurement outcomes that defies explanation by models relying solely on local, predetermined properties. This essay a

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Mar 1412 min read
The Zero-Point Field and the Three-Sphere
GLV as a Route, Quantum Accelerations as an Undercurrent There is something more fundamental than everything we normally mean by the word universe. More fundamental than stars and planets, more fundamental than particles and even more fundamental than space and time. In everyday thinking we set reality up as if space were a stage and time a clock on the wall, neutral, given in advance, ready to be filled. But what happens if you reverse that? Suddenly space and time are no lo

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Feb 2514 min read
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