John Gell

Offshore ROV engineer. I fly robots through black water on a signal that's always slightly old. Author of The Universe Remembers. I have a few questions.

[John Gell @johnGsix]

For twenty years I've flown robots through black water on a signal that's always slightly old. Reality rebuilt from a delayed, error-corrected stream. Then I started wondering if everything works that way.

The Universe Remembers is out today. A book that asks: what if reality runs on compression?

1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1

[John Gell @johnGsix]

Here it is, My first ever book, Is this a simulation? Are we all just ones and zeros?

https://t.co/dvzntbGIOF

Not new physics. A lens. Every claim in the book is graded, so you know exactly which parts to doubt. From an engineer at the end of a cable who couldn't let one number go.

[John Gell @johnGsix]

I'll be posting the ideas here now that the book's out, and notes from the actual job that started all this: flying robots through black water on a signal that's always slightly old.

If that's your kind of strange, follow along.

The universe doesn't forget. It compresses.

[John Gell @johnGsix]

The speed of light is 299,792,458 metres per second.

It looks like a credit card number.

I'm an offshore engineer, not a physicist, and that ugliness bothered me for years. Here's what happened when I stopped accepting the formatting. 🧵

[John Gell @johnGsix]

It's called The Universe Remembers. Not a claim of new physics, something rarer, I hope: a working engineer's lens on the oldest questions, offered in the spirit of here's a strange way to see, now go check it yourself.

[John Gell @johnGsix]

Here it is, on Kindle:
https://t.co/WIc7FlqvfR

Not new physics. A lens. Every claim in the book is graded, so you know exactly which parts to doubt. From an engineer at the end of a cable who couldn't let one number go.

[John Gell @johnGsix]

For twenty years I've flown robots through black water on a signal that's always slightly old. Reality rebuilt from a delayed, error-corrected stream. Then I started wondering if everything works that way.

The Universe Remembers is out today. A book that asks: what if reality runs on compression?

1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1

[John Gell @johnGsix]

Here's the honest version: the pattern in base twelve is solid arithmetic, you can check it yourself. Whether it means anything is a separate, much bolder question, and I grade it as exactly that in the book.

I tell you which parts to doubt. That's the whole point.

[John Gell @johnGsix]

An alternating wave. On, off, on, off. The simplest signal there is.

Now, is this proof of anything? No. And I want to be the first to say so.