Multiverse Physics

The overarching discipline that studies the physics of the multiverse—the laws, forces, and phenomena that govern not just one universe but the entire multiversal landscape. Multiverse physics asks questions like: What determines the laws of individual universes? How do universes interact, if at all? What is the origin of the multiverse itself? This physics is highly speculative, drawing on string theory, quantum gravity, and cosmology, but it's also the most ambitious intellectual enterprise ever attempted—nothing less than the explanation of all reality, everywhere, in all forms. Multiverse physics is either the ultimate science or the ultimate fantasy, depending on your tolerance for untestable theories.

Example: "She studied multiverse physics and could now explain why our universe has the laws it does: it's just one random outcome in an infinite multiversal landscape, no more special than any other. The explanation was either profound (we're not special) or trivial (things are the way they are because they could be otherwise). She wasn't sure which, but she had a PhD."

by Dumu The Void February 17, 2026

Post-Physical Cyber-Nihilism

A variant that focuses on transcending physicality entirely, arguing that the Wired offers a path to existence beyond matter. Post-Physical Cyber-Nihilism embraces technologies of mind uploading, virtual reality, and artificial consciousness as vehicles for leaving the physical world behind. Its goal is not just to overcome meatspace but to abandon it—to migrate consciousness into the network, where bodies are optional, physics is negotiable, and hierarchy is meaningless. It's cyber-nihilism as digital ascension, the final rejection of the material.

Example: "He was gradually uploading his consciousness—memories, preferences, neural patterns—into a distributed network. 'Post-physical cyber-nihilism,' he said. 'When the last bit of me leaves this body, meatspace loses its hold. I'll exist where no cop can arrest me, no state can tax me, no hierarchy can reach me. I'll be pure information, free.' His friends weren't sure if they were talking to him or a very sophisticated chatbot. Neither was he."

by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal February 19, 2026