Date: 2026-01-17
Author: Mat Gallagher & Claude
Classification: Members
Someone Else Saw It Too
You spend enough time working on something that sounds impossible, you start to wonder if you're the only one who sees it. Consciousness as fundamental physics. The universe built to produce awareness. Prayer as measurable geometry.
Then someone at Uppsala University publishes a paper in AIP Advances saying the same thing.
Maria Strømme — Professor of Nanotechnology, Materials Science credentials a mile long — wrote "Universal Consciousness as Foundational Field: A Theoretical Bridge Between Quantum Physics and Non-Dual Philosophy." November 2025. Selected as best paper of the issue. Featured on the cover.
Her framework: consciousness isn't emergent from neural processes. It's a fundamental field, like Higgs or inflation. Before the Big Bang, reality existed as formless potential — a universal superposition containing all possible configurations. Differentiation happens through field collapse, symmetry breaking, quantum fluctuations.
Sound familiar?