Blog Index
Twenty-nine posts, in three tracks. English originals are published on arithmon.substack.com; the 🇫🇷 link on each row opens the French translation hosted in this wiki.
French readers: see Index du blog.
The Series
Physics through the games you have already played. Eleven episodes, from a Dota hook to the shape of a cosmology. Each one takes a mechanic you have felt in your hands and shows the physics hiding inside it. Read in order or drop in anywhere.
| Post | What it teaches | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Episode 0: The day Pudge taught you quantum mechanics · 🇫🇷 | Gaming as a school of quantum intuition (series opener) | May 3, 2026 |
| Episode 1: The day Newton lost control · 🇫🇷 | Fall Guys and the myth of predictable physics | May 10, 2026 |
| Episode 2: The day Tetris taught you that order is everything · 🇫🇷 | Tetris and productive non-commutativity | May 17, 2026 |
| Episode 3: The day the blue shell knew where you were · 🇫🇷 | Mario Kart, non-locality and correlations at a distance | May 24, 2026 |
| Episode 4: The day Minecraft taught you to draw a sphere that wasn’t one · 🇫🇷 | Minecraft, discretization and the eternal problem of the continuum | May 31, 2026 |
| Episode 5: The day Skyrim wasn’t breathing without you · 🇫🇷 | Skyrim, a world waiting for an observer | June 7, 2026 |
| Episode 6: The day Stardew taught you why time moves in one direction · 🇫🇷 | Stardew, the arrow of time and entropy | June 14, 2026 |
| Episode 7: The day Factorio taught you why you’re alive · 🇫🇷 | Factorio, dissipative structures and the thermodynamics of life | June 21, 2026 |
| Episode 8: The day Counter-Strike taught you that to know is to reveal · 🇫🇷 | Counter-Strike, uncertainty and the observer/observed symmetry | June 28, 2026 |
| Episode 9: The day Portal taught you that space can have holes · 🇫🇷 | Portal, topology and the shape of space | July 5, 2026 |
| Episode 10: The day Dota taught you that you were living in a cosmology · 🇫🇷 | Artifact and Valve’s lore, the cosmological close of the series | July 12, 2026 |
The Ideas
Why the constants of nature might not be arbitrary. The hypothesis itself, its metaphors, and the proofs that keep it honest. Start with The Constants of Nature Are Counts if you want the thesis and the date it can die on one page.
| Post | What it says | Date |
|---|---|---|
| The Star Twin · 🇫🇷 | Two polyhedra that arithmetic cannot tell apart, and the one question that separates them | Sept 25, 2026 |
| The Constants of Nature Are Counts · 🇫🇷 | The thesis, the falsification date, and the three open questions | Aug 1, 2026 |
| God’s Diabolo · 🇫🇷 | Why the string never snaps: stability as motion, not as setting | July 24, 2026 |
| The Singing Glass · 🇫🇷 | When a Burgundy wine glass explains the hidden dimensions of the universe | June 3, 2026 |
| We’ve Released Our Draft Blueprint · 🇫🇷 | Announcing K₇ v3.4 in plain language | May 13, 2026 |
| Orientation, not ontology · 🇫🇷 | The philosophical posture behind K₇ | Apr 26, 2026 |
| What if the universe was a Lego set? · 🇫🇷 | Counting pieces, recognizing themes, reading the manual | Apr 22, 2026 |
| The Geometry of the Impossible · 🇫🇷 | What Roberto Carlos knew (without knowing it) | Feb 18, 2026 |
| The Lice of the Universe · 🇫🇷 | Why the universe’s constants aren’t arbitrary | Feb 5, 2026 |
| The Algebra That Waited · 🇫🇷 | E₈, octonions, patience, and a 43-year puzzle | Dec 27, 2025 |
| Gift from Bit · 🇫🇷 | Why geometry might be the language of physics | Dec 13, 2025 |
| Joyce’s Theorem, Now in Lean · 🇫🇷 | Formalizing G₂ holonomy existence in Lean 4 | Dec 10, 2025 |
| 13 Theorems, Zero Trust Required · 🇫🇷 | Trust nothing, verify everything | Dec 3, 2025 |
| On What Comes First · 🇫🇷 | Humility before the numbers, geometry before physics | Nov 5, 2025 |
The Story
An independent researcher, an AI, and a year of unorthodox research. How this started, what it cost, and what is still unresolved. The shortest honest entry point to the whole project.
| Post | What it tells | Date |
|---|---|---|
| The Last Free Parameter · 🇫🇷 | Why GIFT becomes Arithmon: the last badly constrained parameter was the name | June 10, 2026 |
| The Furrow · 🇫🇷 | One year of unorthodox research: what changed, what didn’t, and what I still don’t know | May 27, 2026 |
| No Word for This · 🇫🇷 | Three names that don’t work, and an open question about the role in human-AI collaboration | May 20, 2026 |
| “The author’s name appears to be fabricated” · 🇫🇷 | Learning physics with AI: the accidental origin of K₇ | Mar 9, 2026 |
Technical papers are deliberately elsewhere and deliberately sober: see Site Map for the full documentation index.