The Shape of Now
A New Map of Reality
A bridge from the present moment to a new, unified map of physics, consciousness, and meaning. Read it, listen to it, explore it with AI.
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The standard picture maps reality in extraordinary detail—except for the part you actually live in.
The Shape of Now starts from that gap and builds outward: a single framework connecting physics, consciousness, and the world we share.
The book is offered DRM-free and unprotected—intentionally. This framework is meant to be worked with, not just read. Feed the ebook to an AI and ask questions. Explore implications. Use the theory as a tool for whatever you're building or trying to understand. The audiobook lets you absorb the ideas while the text stays available for AI-assisted exploration. Get one or both.
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Your format: Ebook for reading and AI interaction. Audiobook for immersion. Bundle for both—listen while AI works with the text.
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Your path: Big-picture overview, skeptic's entry, or technical deep dive—the book supports all three.
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Your depth: The full theory record and supporting documents are always here when you're ready.
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The Shape of Now: A New Map of Reality
The readable bridge to everything in the Absolute Relativity framework.
Something is happening right now.
You're reading these words. There's a sense of weight somewhere, a quality to being here. Before any theory—before particles or fields, equations or simulations—there's this: the undeniable fact of experience itself.
This book starts there. And it doesn't leave.
The Shape of Now is the complete picture of Absolute Relativity, told in a way you can actually read. If you've encountered the technical documents on this site—the V1/V2 framework, the simulations, the formal derivations—this is where you see how those pieces form one coherent whole. If you're arriving fresh and want to understand what this theory actually claims, this is where to begin.
The book moves through physics, philosophy, and what one can call spirituality—not as separate topics patched together, but as three views of the same landscape. One map. Three languages. The same territory.
What's Inside
The arc begins with the deepest question: why is there something it's like to be here at all? The standard picture of reality—matter in space, governed by laws—has no answer. It describes patterns with extraordinary precision, but it treats experience as an afterthought, a puzzle to be solved later.
This book flips the direction. What if experience isn't the mystery to explain? What if it's the ground everything else is built on?
From that starting point, structure emerges. The present moment relating to itself creates time. Experiences of time relating to each other create the shared world we navigate. And the geometry of that nesting—levels within levels, from quantum to cosmic—turns out to explain things physics has struggled with for a century.
You'll find:
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The philosophical foundation: Pure relativity and why nothing has identity in itself. How the infinite shows up in every finite moment. Why the "hard problem" of consciousness dissolves when you stop starting from matter.
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The context-level ladder: Reality organized in nested layers—from the quantum/molecular seam at −2, through cells at −1, to the human hinge at Level 0, then outward to Earth-surface (+1), galactic (+2), and cosmic horizon (+3). What each level is. How they relate. Why this particular structure exists.
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The physics with teeth: The Universal Geometric Mean landing at ~0.12 mm—the size of the human ovum, the smallest visible dust mote, the smallest animal with a nervous system. A derivation of Earth's gravitational strength from pure geometry, no unexplained constants inserted. Why quantum measurement and gravity are two faces of the same constraint. What this says about dark matter.
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The evidence trail: Fractal clustering across thirty orders of magnitude. The nano-scale boundary where quantum gives way to classical. The timeline showing that predictions preceded calculations—this wasn't retrofitting.
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The implications that follow: Earth developing a planetary nervous system. AI and what it means for the structure. The three singularities—physics, technology, spirituality—as one threshold seen from different angles. And the God's I View: what it means that the infinite quality of the present moment is what you actually are.
Two Ways In
This book is written for two readers at once.
If you're here for the big picture: You don't need a physics background. The book uses plain language, concrete examples, and builds ideas in steps you can follow. When sections get technical, you can let them go and keep reading—the shape of the picture will still come through. This is the mainstream entry point, written for curious minds, not specialists.
If you're here from the technical side: You've seen the formal documents. You've maybe worked through the simulations or the Context Level framework. This book shows you why those pieces are shaped the way they are—how the mathematics expresses a philosophical insight, and how the whole thing hangs together as one claim about reality. It's the orientation layer. The map that makes the archive legible.
What This Book Is
This isn't a simplified version of the technical work. It's a different mode entirely—a bridge between the formal structure and the lived reality it describes.
The full derivations, simulation code, and audit trail remain here on the site, anchored on-chain and referenced throughout. If you want to verify claims, reproduce runs, or engage with the mathematics directly, that's what the archive is for.
The Shape of Now is how you see what it all means.
It's physics that doesn't leave out consciousness. Philosophy that makes testable predictions. Spiritual recognition that follows from structure rather than faith alone.
The present moment isn't a mystery to solve later. It's where we begin—and where everything in this framework returns.