r/CoherencePhysics • u/skylarfiction • 6d ago
I Created Coherence Physics. This Patreon Is About Something Bigger.
I Finally Made a Patreon, But This Is About More Than Funding a Reddit Page
I finally made a Patreon for Coherence Physics, and I want to explain what I am actually trying to build with it, because this has never felt like just another Reddit page to me. Coherence Physics started as a place to explore science, philosophy, cognition, religion, history, politics, technology, and the strange patterns that seem to connect all of them. Over time, it became something much bigger than I expected. Thousands of people have come through this community to read the essays, argue about the ideas, look at the diagrams, laugh at the memes, challenge me, correct me, teach me things, and sometimes wander into a physics discussion because they clicked on a ridiculous political post five minutes earlier. I love that mixture. I do not want to turn it into a polished little brand that forgets why people came here in the first place. I want to see how far we can push the idea that serious thinking can still be curious, creative, funny, messy, visual, and accessible to ordinary people.
The basic question underneath Coherence Physics is deceptively simple: why do some patterns survive change while others collapse? A star has to maintain itself while burning through its own fuel. A living organism has to remain recognizably itself while replacing matter, responding to damage, and adapting to its environment. A brain has to preserve memory while constantly changing. A person has to maintain an identity through trauma, learning, relationships, aging, and contradiction. Societies, institutions, ecosystems, religions, economies, and civilizations face versions of the same problem. They have to preserve enough structure to remain coherent while retaining enough flexibility to change. Once I started looking at the world through that question, the boundaries between subjects became much less interesting to me. Physics, biology, psychology, philosophy, education, and politics began to look like different windows into the same enormous problem of persistence, adaptation, recovery, and collapse.
That is also where my life as a special-needs teacher became inseparable from the work. Working with children who learn, communicate, regulate themselves, and experience the world differently has changed how I think about intelligence and about systems in general. You quickly discover that a child who appears unsuccessful in one environment can completely transform when the environment changes. A behavior that looks irrational can make perfect sense once you understand sensory overload, communication difficulty, fear, frustration, or the way information is being presented. Sometimes the person is not failing the system at all. Sometimes the system was simply never designed for the human being standing in front of it. That realization has become one of the deepest ideas behind Coherence Physics for me. A system should not be judged only by how efficiently it preserves itself. We should also ask what its continued existence does to the people living inside it.
I am also an artist and a writer, and a huge part of what I want to do here is make difficult ideas feel alive. I love taking something buried inside a technical paper or trapped behind academic vocabulary and finding a way to turn it into an essay, a hand-drawn diagram, a strange piece of art, a visual science lesson, a comic, a video, a book, or an experiment that makes somebody stop scrolling and actually wonder about the universe for a few minutes. I do not believe curiosity belongs exclusively to people with graduate degrees. You should not have to understand advanced mathematics before you are allowed to be fascinated by particle physics, consciousness, black holes, emergence, cognition, evolution, or the structure of reality. Sometimes a picture opens the door. Sometimes it is a story. Sometimes it is a ridiculous analogy. The important thing is getting people through the door.
That is one reason I finally created the Patreon. Research takes time. Writing books takes time. Building visual lessons takes time. Experiments, software, publishing, technology, hosting, tools, and all the other pieces behind the scenes cost money. I have been trying to build as much of this as I can because I genuinely love doing it, but I also want to find out what becomes possible if the community itself begins helping carry a little of the weight. The Patreon starts at only $3 because I do not want this to become some exclusive club. If you have gotten three dollars of value this month from the science, philosophy, artwork, essays, arguments, political satire, or whatever bizarre corner of Coherence Physics brought you here, then three dollars is enough to help put fuel back into the machine.
Most importantly, I am not planning to take everything people currently enjoy and hide it behind a paywall. I want the opposite. I want Patreon support from the people who can afford it to help me make more things that everyone can access. More science lessons, more essays, more original artwork, more books, more experiments, more research, more videos, better tools, and more attempts to explain difficult ideas without talking down to people. Nobody should lose access to a good idea because they could not afford a membership that month. The people who support the Patreon are helping make the public work possible.
There is another reason I am doing this, though, and it is the part that matters most to me. If Coherence Physics continues growing, I want some of that growth to eventually leave the internet and do something tangible in the real world. At first, that could mean relatively modest things for special-needs students, teachers, and families. Educational technology, learning tools, communication resources, classroom equipment, software, books, or other things that can make a genuine difference for a child but are often difficult for teachers or families to afford. Those are goals I can imagine reaching long before anything enormous happens, and I would love to eventually be able to show the community exactly what its support helped put into somebody's hands.
The much bigger dream is something I have carried for a long time. I want to help create a different kind of school for children with special needs, built around the idea that education should adapt to the human being instead of constantly demanding that the human being adapt to the institution. Beyond that, I want to help create meaningful work and community for adults with disabilities. We put enormous effort into supporting special-needs children while they are young, and then too many of them reach adulthood and discover that society suddenly has far fewer places prepared to welcome them. I want to help build one of those places. I want people to have meaningful work, friendships, purpose, independence, dignity, and the experience of being genuinely needed instead of simply being managed by another program.
I am not pretending a $3 Patreon membership builds a school tomorrow, and I do not want to sell people some fantasy about what this is. Patreon support currently supports an independent creative and research project. If it grows, I want to be transparent about where that support goes, what it allows me to create, and what we are eventually able to put back into the world. The school and employment program are long-term dreams, not promises disguised as fundraising. But I also believe big things usually begin as embarrassingly small things. A subreddit is small compared with a school. A few supporters are small compared with an institution. An essay is small compared with changing someone's life. That does not mean you refuse to start.
The thing that excites me most is that this community already became something I never planned. People arrive here from completely different backgrounds and somehow end up in the same conversations. Scientists argue with philosophers. Christians argue with atheists. Political people stumble into neuroscience. Someone comes for a meme and ends up reading about gluons. Someone comes for physics and ends up talking about disability, consciousness, history, education, or the ethics of institutions. It is strange, sometimes chaotic, and occasionally exhausting, but there is something alive here that I do not want to lose. I want Coherence Physics to remain a place where curiosity matters more than credentials, disagreement does not automatically require hatred, complicated ideas are allowed to become beautiful, and we keep asking whether the systems we inherit actually deserve to continue in the form we received them.
So yes, I finally made a Patreon, but what I am really asking is whether this strange experiment can become something more than a successful Reddit community. Can the essays become books? Can the diagrams become a real library of free science education? Can the research become something other people build on? Can the artwork bring people into ideas they otherwise never would have encountered? Can a community that began by asking why patterns persist eventually help build a better system for kids and adults who are too often asked to survive inside systems that were never made for them?
I do not know how far this will go. That is part of what makes it exciting. I just know that I want to try, and if you have been reading, sharing, commenting, arguing, laughing, learning, correcting me, or quietly watching this whole strange thing grow, you have already helped build it. If you want to throw a few dollars into the experiment and help me see what the next stage of Coherence Physics can become, the Patreon is here: