Nothing Matters
The personal science website of Kevin Donahue
Welcome. This site is home to the Quantum Family Tree Theory (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 universe, on this view, began with a single quantum event — one particle, one superposition, one maybe — and every particle that exists today descends from 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
Ultrametricity confirmed at depth 8 — March 2026
The emergent geometry is not just a metric — it is a hierarchical ultrametric. U = 0.983 ± 0.006 across 20 trees, one million triple checks. The decay exponent converges to α = 2.0. Both results are new.
Alpha convergence: α → 2.0 — March 2026
Simulations at depths 2 through 8 (up to 256 leaves, 20-tree ensembles) show the entanglement decay exponent converging to exactly 2 — matching the emergent spatial dimension recovered by independent metric reconstruction. This was not assumed. It emerged.
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 spacetim