Nothing Matters
The personal science website of Kevin Donahue
Welcome. This site is home to the Quantum Family Tree Conjecture (simple explanation) — a framework proposing that spacetime itself emerges from quantum entanglement structured as a genealogical hierarchy. The core idea: distance is not where you are, it is how related you are.
The universe 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. And the lumpiness of the universe — every galaxy, every void, every anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background — is the fluctuation pattern of the entanglement field.
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Latest
Two Laws: Depth-12 GPU Results — March 2026
Depth-12 simulations complete: 4,096 leaves, 8.4 million pairs, 20-tree ensembles on H100 GPU. Two universal scaling laws established. Near-field universality (σ/μ = 0.351 ± 0.004) holds to 3 significant figures across all 20 independent random trees.
Paper v22: A Conjecture — March 2026
Updated paper reframed as an explicit conjecture. The Divergent Fluctuation Law introduced as the primary new result. First-law entanglement result elevated as the result most likely to interest quantum gravity researchers.
In the beginning there was maybe — February 2026
The opening essay introducing the Quantum Family Tree conjecture. Why the first quantum superposition is the seed of all spacetime.