Two Ways of Looking: My Writing on Science, the Universe, and the Questions In Between

I write about the universe in two different registers, in two different places, for two different reasons.

LifeSpaceAndTheLot is where I write as Halley Leda. It starts with a feeling. The moon that pulls something loose in me before I've finished looking at it. A galaxy that grew up too fast. A year that returns to the same crease of the horizon. The blog is personal, reflective, unhurried. It begins with wonder and follows it until the wonder turns into an idea I can almost hold. If you want to know how the universe feels from the inside of one human life, that's the work to read.

Beneath the Noise is colder, and deliberately so. It begins not with wonder but with friction, the questions modern physics treats as settled and isn't. We have searched for dark matter for forty years and found nothing. Quantum mechanics cannot define measurement, the word its entire formalism rests on. There is a constant at the centre of gravity that no one can explain. The blog feels the gap. This publication walks up to it and refuses to leave. It is sourced, rigorous, and written to hold two readers at once: the curious non-specialist and the working physicist who notices when the science is fudged.

Same eyes. Same universe. Two temperatures.

I come to all of it from an unusual angle. I work in cybersecurity, and I have spent years doing theoretical physics independently. No department to defend, no consensus to protect, no reason to leave a hard question alone.

The thread that runs through both, whether I'm writing about the moon or about the measurement problem, is a single refusal.

When everyone agrees to stop asking. Look Anyway.

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[Beneath the Noise on Substack → https://bneathnoise.substack.com/ ]

[Life Space And The Lot →lifespaceandthelot.com ]

[Life In Superposition, coming soon → https://lifeinsuperposition.substack.com]