Physics Hard

The most famous problem in philosophy of mind has been built on a picture of matter that physics abandoned a hundred years ago. Once you remove that picture, the problem turns inside out. For thirty years, philosophers have wrestled with the hard problem of consciousness: how does physical matter give rise to subjective experience? The question feels urgent, even unanswerable. But The Hard Problem of Matter argues that the question has been holding the equation upside down. Atoms are not things. The world is not built out of stuff. This isn't mysticism. It's what the founders of quantum ...

In the apocalypse, the first weapon Adrian will have to upgrade is himself. The end of the world as we know it couldn’t come at a worse time for him. One minute, he’s an operations manager who’s overseeing a construction job in the wilderness. The next, an unknown energy force changes the very nature of life itself, from the smallest organism to the top of the food chain. The Earth’s surviving inhabitants, its environment, and the very laws of physics have all undergone fundamental transformations. Many of those changes aren’t pretty.

E=mc2 was born in 1905, the brainchild of Albert Einstein. In this lucid and brilliant book, one of the best popularizers of science illuminates one of science's most complex concepts. Ranging widely from Exit signs in theatres to the future fate of the earth, from smoke detectors to black holes...

What if our civilization is more advanced than we know? The New York Times bestselling author of Daemon—“the cyberthriller against which all others will be measured” –Publishers Weekly) —imagines a world in which decades of technological advances have been suppressed in an effort to...

"The worldbuilding is fascinating...and the story is thrilling." --A satisfied Amazon reader A mysterious monolith. A deadly alien jungle. Survival is just the beginning. Belle Machado has one shot to change her life. Fresh out of pilot school and desperate to prove herself, she’s on a high-stakes evaluation flight for the career of her dreams. But when a towering alien monolith blasts her ship from the sky, her ambitions are replaced by a single, primal goal: survive. Stranded on a planet crawling with predators—including a colossal megapede that stalks her every move—Belle must ...

Observer, by Robert Lanza and Nancy Kress is a slick modern, hard sf, standalone, medical thriller combining classic Robin Cook with the hard edge of Black Mirror and Altered Carbon. After neurosurgeon Caro Soames-Watkins’ career has gone down in flames, she receives a strange job offer from...

The future has already been written. Unless someone changes it. When a strange signal appears embedded in pulsar data, physicist Alex Navarro recognizes the impossible: the message is coming from the future. Teaming up with brilliant systems engineer Mira Calder, Alex traces the signal to a hidden system buried deep within spacetime itself—a system designed not to observe the future, but to control it. At the center of the mystery lies the Causal Engine, a machine built by the elusive Chronos Directorate to eliminate uncertainty from human history. By modeling every possible timeline, it ...

She was buried alive to keep her safe. Now, she's breaking out to save the universe. In the dying heart of the asteroid Cerenus, the laws of physics are failing. "The Fading"—a localized vacuum decay—is eating reality alive, turning steel to rust and color to gray. Nineteen-year-old Pella knows the math of the end. Locked in a Faraday-shielded bunker by her sister, she spends her days calculating the rate of the universe's collapse. She isn't sick, as she’s been told. She is an Anchor—a rare human anomaly capable of stabilizing quantum fields with her mind. Baylen is a scavenger, a ...

When humanity’s first experimental deep-space starship breaks the laws of physics and reveals a hidden path through hyperspace, a battle-hardened spacer, a genius scientist, and his fierce, determined daughter are flung across the cosmos—past vanished civilizations, cosmic singularities, and beings older than stars. Lost between dimensions and slipping through warped branes, they confront infinite copies of themselves scattered through a maze of universes, the heartbeat of creation, and the fate of all sentient life. Their journey becomes more than exploration—it becomes the spark ...

What is the universe made of — matter, energy, or something deeper? In The Architecture of Reality, Clayton Louis Turnage explores one of the most profound questions in human thought: Is reality fundamentally physical, or is it structured in a way that points beyond material explanation? Drawing from geometry, thermodynamics, cosmology, information theory, and contemporary philosophy of mind, this book traces a bold but disciplined inquiry into: The emergence of structure from undifferentiated unity The geometric foundations of space and symmetry Entropy and the arrow of time The ...

Aristotle considers ‘the principles and causes of change, or movement’ behind both animate and inanimate things. It is philosophy, not science, but over centuries affected the views of those involved in the ‘natural sciences’. The text emerged from the Lyceum, the school founded by Aristotle, and is accepted to be a compilation of texts, some of which - but perhaps not all - is by Aristotle. Regardless of authorship, its importance is unquestioned.

Particle physics was always an unlikely path to the stars, but with the discovery that space could be compressed, the entire galaxy had come within reach. The technology was astonishing, yet nothing compared to what humans encountered 4,000 light-years from home. Now, with an invitation from a mysterious gatekeeper, the people of Earth must decide if they're ready to participate in the galactic conversation.

Winner of 15 literary awards, the Tachyon Tunnel series has been hailed as "a brilliant fusion of real physics and unforgettable humanity." Book Three raises the bar yet again where the laws of science meet the limits of love, and one man's vision may save the future of two galaxies.

The universe is winding down, and it’s accumulating in the corners of Dr. Lev Volkov’s bungalow. Lev Volkov is a "soft matter" physicist who is losing his grip on reality. After being told his research is "incremental," he is fired from his university position and retreats into a obsessive home renovation. But while trying to hang oak trim, he discovers a terrifying error in arithmetic: a wall that is 4.09 meters long on the inside, but only 4.00 meters on the outside. What starts as a localized geometry error soon reveals itself as a "Nodal Knot", a stable, engineered topological ...

Love Beyond Spacetime – Volume 2 is a collection of hard science fiction stories that blend rigorous scientific thought with the one force physicists forgot to name—love. These tales explore the strange intersections of quantum mechanics, artificial intelligence, cryptography, and consciousness, all grounded in real theories but elevated by emotional resonance. In The Account That Knew Too Much, financial anomalies point to a deeper quantum conspiracy. Absorber Paths – Love is Blinding reimagines Wheeler-Feynman time symmetry as a tale of entangled hearts. In Pi In Other Universes, a ...

They erased his research. Then they erased him. Now they need him to save the world. Physicist Dean Eckert spent years developing a theory that made powerful institutions deeply uncomfortable. Then his work vanished—scrubbed from databases, stripped from records, buried beneath layers of institutional silence. His career followed. His name followed. The life he built, gone. He should have been forgotten. Then the anomaly appeared. A phenomenon unlike anything in recorded science begins spreading across the planet, warping gravitational fields, destabilizing critical systems, and turning ...

Artificial intelligence is advancing at breathtaking speed. Large language models can write essays, generate code, compose music, diagnose disease, and simulate conversation with astonishing fluency. As discussions of artificial general intelligence (AGI) intensify, one question becomes unavoidable: If machines can think, what makes us human? In More Than Machines, award-winning Stephen Hawley Martin explores the critical distinction between machine intelligence and human consciousness. Drawing on philosophy of mind, neuroscience, quantum physics debates, and research into near-death ...

An entertaining and educational experience for adults, teens and tweens. Maincrest Media Book Award for Pre-teen Fiction in 2024 Selected by Amazon Editors in the UK and US for Prime Reading in 2024 and 2025 Finalist in the 2024 Wishing Shelf Awards (Teens) and the Book Excellence Awards (SF) Silver medal for Teen and Young Adult Sci-Fi Action & Adventure in the 2023 Global Book Awards A tale of two kitties: a sooty kitten; a brain computer interface kit. The building of the hadron collider was once big news, but now it is just part of the scenery for most of the community, until Airlie and...

NEW EDITION with Heroine's Foreword +educational links: An entertaining educational experience for adults, teens and tweens An entertaining and educational experience for adults, teens and tweens. Maincrest Media Book Award for Pre-teen Fiction in 2024 Selected by Amazon Editors in the UK and US for Prime Reading in 2024 and 2025 Finalist in the 2024 Wishing Shelf Awards (Teens) and the Book Excellence Awards (SF) Silver medal for Teen and Young Adult Sci-Fi Action & Adventure in the 2023 Global Book Awards A tale of two kitties: a sooty kitten; a brain computer interface kit. The building ...

THE COMPLETE SIMULACRA TRILOGY Three Novels. One Infinite Loop. The Ultimate Awakening. The complete saga is available in a single, massive omnibus. Spanning over 700 pages, this is the story of a "backdoor" in the universe, the human who found it, and the realities that shattered and reformed under their changes to the simulacra. BOOK 1: CHEAT Adrian Shaw has a secret. He cheats at reality. On paper, he’s a brilliant but unremarkable AI scientist and hedge fund quant. Off the books, he’s discovered a hidden "backdoor" in the universe that lets him nudge probability and rewrite outcomes...