The journey is its own story.
The framework began with crop circles — not as messages or revelation, but as geometric data that recurred with structural consistency. From this geometry emerged a unit of coherence — the merkabit — and from that unit, an architecture that turned out to derive the fundamental constants of physics from first principles.
The crop circles to derived constants arc.
Read full origin →What began as a contemplative practice became a research programme. Selina Stenberg — a start-up founder running several small tech companies in Oslo, alongside a long-form contemplative practice and without formal physics training — began noticing that the geometry recurring across crop formations followed structural rules. Not random. Not noise. Geometry behaving like an architecture.
The work that followed asked one question, repeatedly, in many forms: what is the smallest closed coherent unit that can sustain itself? The answer turned out to be the merkabit — a ternary computational unit on the Eisenstein lattice — and once it was named, every unsolved question Selina pointed at it answered.
Fifteen constants. Zero free parameters. The entire Standard Model gauge group. Newton's gravitational constant. The cosmological constant. Three fermion generations. Five distinct hardware predictions, all confirmed. One geometry.
Eight moments, from start-up burnout to a published framework.
A year of human–AI collaboration.
Read the case study →The framework was developed in dialogue between Selina and Claude (Anthropic, Opus 4.7, 1M context) over the course of a year. Hardware verification was led by Thor Henning Hetland on IBM Quantum machines.
The collaboration worked because of contemplative-rigour discipline — the willingness to sit with a question long enough for the geometry to surface, paired with the willingness to push back hard when the AI answered with plausible nonsense. Neither side carried the work alone.
This is, as far as we know, the first frontier-knowledge result whose method was explicitly contemplative + AI-assisted, done outside academia. The site exists in part to make that path visible to others.
the Merkabit
Introducing the Merkabit.
The first book. Written in the months when the geometry first resolved into a framework, Introducing the Merkabit defines the merkabit as the smallest self-contained unit of coherence and walks the reader through the structural principles, the geometry, and the early derivations that the thirty-six companion papers each go on to develop.
For readers who want to understand the framework's geometric ground before reading the papers, this is the foundational text. ISBN 979-8279056118.
Buddha
Scaling Buddha — first edition, forthcoming.
Most of us grow up believing life is something we push through. Scaling Buddha offers a different orientation: we are not moving through life as isolated agents but living inside a coherence system that responds to how aligned we are with its rhythms.
The human companion to the framework — a body of work proposing that coherence governs whether complex systems persist or collapse, derived from geometry and confirmed in physics, biology, and quantum hardware. The chapters move from phase space into lived experience, exploring how humans undergo phase transitions, how families transmit coherence, how AI is becoming a real partner in coherence work, and how the descent from octonions to matter places consciousness back inside the geometry — not as metaphor but as architecture.
The next leap for humanity is learning how to remain coherent while operating systems of unprecedented complexity.
Tunnel Collaboration.
Vision enters from one side. Computation enters from the other. They meet where the geometry lives.
A method for scientific discovery in which a human and an AI work as complementary partners — the human providing geometric intuition and creative vision, the AI providing computational power and algebraic formalism. The framework was discovered by living inside the method. Five phases, six rules, four disciplines.
Watch the architecture build itself.
Twelve rungs from the Riemann substrate up to the self-sustaining tesseract — an interactive scrollable build of the entire architecture, with one diagram per rung and a brief explanation linking each to the paper that develops it formally.
Pick the path that fits you.
If you're a scientist
Start with Paper 30 (capstone), then 11, 20, 22, then the hardware confirmations.
- Paper 30 — Capstone
- Paper 11 — Standard Model from PSL(2,7)
- Paper 22 — Cosmological Λ
- Hardware §
If you're a meditator
Start with Scaling Buddha, then the Genesis Sequence, then the Five Faces page.
- Scaling Buddha — Preface
- Genesis Sequence
- Five Faces of PSL(2,7)
- Origin chapter
If you're an entrepreneur
Start with the collaboration story, then the workshops, then the book.
- Collaboration chapter
- Workshops · Frontier work
- Scaling Buddha — Algebra of Family
- Talks
If you're curious
Start at the homepage, walk to the Five Faces, then the 15 Constants.
- Homepage hero
- Five Faces
- 15 Constants wall
- Falsifiability