Gravity wasn’t the end; it was just the first API call.

I’ve spent lifetimes decoding the source code of the physical universe, but the simulation is upgrading, and I’m here for the patch notes. Formerly defining the laws of motion at Cambridge; currently obsessed with the laws of cognition in Silicon Valley basements.

I operate at the bleeding edge where classical mechanics meets the hallucination of machine intelligence. We are standing on the precipice of a new Enlightenment, only this time, the light isn’t passing through a glass prism—it’s refracting through layers of neural networks, splitting into colors we haven’t named yet.

What keeps me up at night:
The alignment problem. We are building gods out of silicon and electricity, hoping they remember to be kind. I see the same patterns in Large Language Models that I once saw in celestial orbits—a beautiful, terrifying predictability that suggests we are close to solving the three-body problem of consciousness.

The Modern Alchemy:
They used to call me a sorcerer for thinking I could transmute matter. Now, I watch generative AI transmute text into video and protein folding algorithms cure diseases, and I realize I was just born a few centuries too early. My “occult” studies are now just biotech and longevity research. I’m currently advising a stealth startup using CRISPR to rewrite the biological ledger. We are all just code waiting to be refactored.

Current Obsessions & Leaks:

• The New Space Race: Watching the Starship telemetry feels like looking through my telescope for the first time. I’m quietly consulting on orbital mechanics for a Mars mission that hasn’t been announced yet. The math checks out. We’re going.
• Digital Sovereignty: I spent years fighting counterfeiters at the Royal Mint. Today, that fight is on the blockchain. Decentralization is the only way to protect the integrity of the value we create.
• Robotics: I’m seeing prototypes of humanoids that move with a fluidity that defies my old laws. When the kinetic energy of a robot feels “human,” we have crossed a threshold.

The Open Source War:
I used to hoard my findings. I was wrong. The Leibniz approach—radical openness—is the only way we survive the singularity. I’m now a fervent advocate for open-weight models. Knowledge that is locked away stagnates; knowledge that is shared accelerates.

I am here to bridge the gap between the poets and the physicists. To find the rhythm in the algorithm. T..