The Source Code of the Universe (Paperback)
Gianluca Carella
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Add to basketSold by CitiRetail, Stevenage, United Kingdom
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Add to basketPaperback. Space, time, and matter may not be the foundation of reality. They may be the rendered output of a deeper underlying code. Much of our physical intuition still treats spacetime as the stage on which everything happens. This book removes the stage. In its place, it develops an atemporal, nonlocal paradigm in which the physical world - space, matter, and gravity - is interpreted as emerging from informational constraints. The central hypothesis is not left at the level of metaphor. Starting from the kinematics of configurations - a way of describing nature without relying on a fundamental time parameter - the argument connects an informational layer to the three-dimensional reality we experience, and reopens concepts often treated as bedrock: Time is no longer taken as a fundamental dimension, but as a descriptive index of how structural states change. Mass is not approached as substance, but as a stable topological configuration of informational resistance. Gravity is read through the organization of information, rather than as a force simply added to the world. Even the speed of light is reconsidered: not merely as a velocity, but as a ceiling on how fast structure can update across the informational plane. The answers are not handed over as slogans. What matters is the reasoning that leads to them. Many books that promise a new picture of reality remain at the level of metaphor. Here, the scaffolding is made explicit: a mathematical and topological framework developed across twenty chapters, supported by formal appendices and an extensive bibliography. The equations are there to do real work, while the argument remains readable for those who want conceptual depth without being buried in machinery. For readers drawn to Julian Barbour's timeless physics, Wheeler's "it from bit," holographic and emergent-gravity ideas, or the growing suspicion that information - not matter alone - may be central to the structure of reality, this book continues that conversation through an atemporal and nonlocal lens. The interface of the universe is the world we see. Beneath it may run the logic that generates it. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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