Nothing Matters
The personal science website of Kevin Donahue
Welcome. This site is home to the Quantum Family Tree (simple explanation) — a framework proposing that spacetime itself is emergent from quantum entanglement relationships. The core idea is simple: distance isn't where you are, it's how related you are. The current state of the work is the three-paper trilogy.
The universe, on this view, began with a single quantum event — a superposition, a maybe — and every particle that exists today is a descendant of that original state. The geometry of space is the genealogy of that family tree.
You'll also find writing here on other matters: physics, genetics, cosmology, computational biology, and whatever else seems worth thinking about in a universe where nothing matters.
There is no advertising on this site. No tracking. No newsletter. Just ideas.
Latest
The Quantum Family Tree trilogy — April 2026
Three papers posted to Zenodo. Paper 1 (Emergence of Distance) is under review at Communications in Mathematical Physics; Papers 2 (Emergence of Geometry) and 3 (Spacetime and the Quantum Family Tree) are preprints. Spatial distance, geometry, and spacetime dynamics all emerge from the entanglement structure of a randomly branching quantum process.
Lemma D — an open problem — April 2026
The trilogy reduces to a single remaining scalar identity. The companion document gives a layman’s explanation, the formal math challenge, and a catalogue of eighteen attacks that have already failed. Posted as an invitation.
The Quantum Family Tree Conjecture v30 (superseded) — March 2026
The paper was posted as a conjecture. The MI decay exponent α = log(5/2) is derived analytically from Weingarten calculus. Multifractal structure confirmed at depth 12 (4,096 leaves). Superseded by the April 2026 trilogy.
Depth-12 GPU Simulations Complete — March 2026
~8.4 million leaf pairs. Ultrametricity U = 0.983, boundary entropy c = 2.836, first law ratio 1.000 ± 0.002. Source code and data on GitHub.
In the beginning there was maybe — February 2026
The opening essay introducing the Quantum Family Tree Theory. Why the first quantum superposition is the seed of all spacetime.