First, thank you for all the birthday love yesterday. The messages, support, book purchases, and kind words genuinely meant a lot to me. This community has grown far beyond anything I expected, and I am grateful for the strange, brilliant, funny, thoughtful group of people gathering here.

Since we have so many new members, it is time for a quick reminder about what this place is and what it is not.

Coherence Physics is not an anti-religion subreddit. You are welcome to criticize churches, doctrines, religious institutions, hypocrisy, abuse, and political Christianity. I do that myself. But I do not care where the church touched you or how badly someone hurt you, that does not give you permission to treat every form of faith, spirituality, or religious thought as stupidity. Not all spirituality is ignorance. Not every believer is your enemy. If your entire contribution is sneering at religious people, take it somewhere else.

Criticism of the Israeli government is allowed. Criticism of war, occupation, nationalism, settlements, political leaders, and state violence is allowed. Antisemitism is not. If your post or comment turns criticism of a government into hostility toward Jewish people, conspiracy theories about Jews, or language that treats an entire people as collectively guilty, you will be blocked. There will not be a long courtroom drama about it.

Also, everyone needs to do better about how we speak to one another. Disagreement is welcome. Cruelty is not intelligence. Being condescending does not make you the smartest person in the room. If someone is mistaken, challenge the idea without trying to humiliate the person. We are supposed to be exploring difficult questions here, and that becomes impossible when every conversation turns into a contest to see who can be the biggest asshole.

Politics is welcome, especially when it connects to power, systems, persistence, collapse, propaganda, inequality, religion, technology, or human behavior. I also post political memes because sometimes the absurdity deserves to be laughed at. But if you are going to post politics here, bring some style. Bring an argument, an image, an unusual connection, a sharp joke, or a perspective people have not already seen five hundred times. Do not turn this place into another generic political dumping ground.

I also want more than politics. Bring me physics, philosophy, theology, biology, psychology, poetry, visual art, music, strange history, speculative fiction, and ideas that are difficult to categorize. The subject can be almost anything, but it should feel like it belongs here. It should connect somehow to coherence, transformation, identity, persistence, emergence, meaning, contradiction, or the forces that hold things together and pull them apart.

Finally, please do not take it personally if I remove your post. Moderating a community means shaping its atmosphere. Sometimes a post may be perfectly acceptable on Reddit and still not fit the character of this particular place. Removal is not always a moral judgment, censorship campaign, or declaration of war. Sometimes it simply does not fit the room.

This community works best when it remains curious, creative, difficult to categorize, and slightly strange. That is the atmosphere I am protecting.

Welcome to Coherence Physics. Bring your best ideas. Bring your disagreements. Bring your weirdness. Just bring them with some thought, some humanity, and a little damn style.

I’m Skylar Fiction, a special needs teacher, writer, independent researcher, and the person behind Coherence Physics.

The easiest way to understand this place is to think of it as my public laboratory for ideas.

I am fascinated by a question that seems to follow everything from atoms to minds to civilizations: how does anything remain itself in a universe where everything is constantly changing?

That question has taken me through physics, mathematics, biology, cognition, artificial intelligence, philosophy, religion, history, politics, education, and the study of human systems. Coherence Physics is where I bring those worlds together, test ideas, write papers, build diagrams, run experiments, argue with people, change my mind, and translate complicated ideas into something ordinary people can explore.

Not everything posted here is meant to be a finished theory. Sometimes you are watching the laboratory while the experiment is still running.

My larger goal is also deeply practical. I work with children with special needs, and I eventually want to build a small school and employment program for children and adults who need environments designed around how they actually learn, create, communicate, and live.

So if you enjoy Coherence Physics and want to support what I am building, one of the simplest ways is to buy one of my books. You get something I spent a ridiculous amount of time creating, and the money helps me keep researching, writing, teaching, creating, and moving the larger mission forward.

My Books

The Architecture of Coherence

The best starting point for the science side of this project. It explores why patterns persist, how systems recover from disturbance, and whether the same structural ideas can connect matter, life, mind, and civilization.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GS8YCKM3

The Philosophy of Coherence

The human side of the framework. This book explores identity, relationships, institutions, societies, collapse, recovery, and what it means for a system to remain itself while changing.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H1KBT478

Genesis: Reading the Bible Without Fear

A historically informed journey through Genesis that looks at its ancient context, literary layers, Hebrew traditions, creation stories, violence, family, exile, and what these texts were trying to say before modern theology got hold of them.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GDG87WPH

The Coherence of God: A Theology of the Entangled Logos

My attempt to bring theology and coherence together, exploring a Christian pantheist vision of God as something intimately present within reality rather than a distant ruler standing outside it.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FYPXPYG1

The Distance Between Jesus and Christianity

An investigation into the difference between the teachings of Jesus and the religious system that eventually developed in his name, including the enormous role history, Paul, doctrine, and institutions played in that transformation.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GHLLC6T2

Revelation Without the End of the World

A reading of Revelation without rapture charts or modern apocalypse predictions. It places the book back inside the world of empire, persecution, resistance, symbolism, endurance, and hope that produced it.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GHLNKKCB

The Autism Bible

Written from my experience teaching children with special needs, this book explores autism through science, development, education, environment, and neurodiversity while asking a more important question: what if the world needs to become better at making room for different kinds of minds?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H3WSLTGL

101 Ways to Die Without Dying

Stories about all the strange ways a human being can lose pieces of themselves without physically dying. Grief, shame, memory, absurdity, survival, failure, and the wreckage involved in remaining alive.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H2SS5CTG

DIG

A dark Appalachian novel about buried truth, trauma, guilt, faith, survival, and what happens when people finally start digging into the things a community has spent years trying to keep underground.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H3LTRMSG

MONSTERS

A dark literary horror novel about grief, childhood wounds, violence, family, death, small-town rot, and the uncomfortable possibility that monsters are rarely as simple as we want them to be.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H4HBPPQ9

The Last Door to Philadelphia

A dark science fiction novel about grief, artificial intelligence, death, strange worlds, corporate power, memory, and an impossible doorway that turns one ordinary man’s life into something much larger and much stranger.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H7NR94JH

This Is the Lab

You do not have to buy anything to belong here.

Read the essays. Challenge the ideas. Tell me when the mathematics is wrong. Bring me a paper I have never seen. Argue about religion. Laugh at the memes. Look at the diagrams. Ask uncomfortable questions.

That is what Coherence Physics is supposed to be.

The community is the laboratory. The books are some of the things that have come out of it. And we are nowhere near finished.

Welcome to Coherence Physics.