The Living Lattice

Explorables of the intelligence theorem.

A library of interactive essays built around a single inequality — I ≥ 0, the Coherence Theorem — and what happens when you run it on different substrates. Each piece is self-contained, written in the browser, and pursues one idea to its consequence.

The curriculum — the math, by ear and eye, assuming nothing
start here · beginner

Hear it first

Phase, sound, and shape. No math assumed; ears recommended.

Phase and beats, and the audible moment two rhythms lock. The sound workshop: a digital harmonograph where locking means the drawing holds still, and Chladni plates where sand walks to the quiet lines. Rotations: what turning cannot change.

intermediate

The language of structure

The vocabulary the essays actually speak — one module per idea.

Topology and manifolds. Inside a transformer. Gauge and holonomy. Eigenvalues as a network's ways of wobbling — hear its chord, cut its bridge. The von Mises circle, where the constant 0.303 is born. Rotation groups, from a turntable to 768 dimensions.

advanced

The frontier's mathematics

Where the curriculum meets the research itself.

Lohe dynamics on the unit hypersphere and tokens as paths. Living K: the learning rule as a phase portrait, and the repair demonstration. The BKT transition: why the wall sits at 2/π. Coarse-graining: squint, and the law survives. The full ladder from the essays' hardest words to their actual mathematics.

The path: beginner → intermediate → Foundations → any essay → advanced. Or skip ahead and come back when a word stops you — the essays link down to the module they lean on.

The essays
foundations · 5 chapters

Foundations

The one law, built once.

The shared physics every other essay assumes: coupled oscillators, coherence capital C = Iphase·ρ, the Coherent Learning Rule, the arrow Ĉ ≥ 0, and how a substrate remembers and thinks. Start here.

shipped · 17 chapters

α from first principles

The fine structure constant from coupling alone.

Starts from one inequality on the diamond lattice. Derives the fine structure constant to 1.5 parts per billion and the electron’s g-factor to eleven matching digits with the most precise measurement in physics. Zero free parameters.

in progress

The Physics of Mind

Intelligence & consciousness, at the edge.

One law from the vacuum to the mind. Intelligence is the flux of coherence; consciousness is that flux observing itself; both are sharpest at the edge of a phase transition. The companion to The Coherence Theory of Intelligence and Consciousness.

in progress

Transformers as Oscillators

The physics of attention.

A transformer is a network of coupled oscillators. LayerNorm is reprojection, attention is coupling, the residual stream is the field. From that identity: a derived dead-head threshold, a low-dimensional coupling manifold, lossless rank-2 projection, and one rotation between any two trained models.

planned

The proton mass

Frame-sector SU(2) and the Skyrmion.

The next physics chapter: extending the same machinery from electrons to hadrons. Frame-sector dynamics on the diamond lattice, Skyrmion topology, and the proton’s mass as the target.