Nothing Becomes

What is real? It's a question that has echoed through millennia: from Pythagoras and Democritus to Taoist alchemists, from Islamic scholars to quantum physicists. In Nothing Becomes, Bob Hoyng invites readers into the threshold space between science and spirituality, where wonder and rigor converge. This is not a textbook. It is a meditation. A philosophical exploration born from a single transformative moment that reframed existence itself, dissolving the boundaries between Eastern wisdom and Western science, between knowing and being. Drawing on Taoism, Buddhism, quantum mechanics, and cosmology, Hoyng traces how ancient intuitions foreshadowed modern insights. He examines how the universe might end, and how it might have begun. He explores what happens when you strip away assumptions about particles, fields, and spacetime, asking instead: what if reality emerges from information itself? The result is a speculative framework - minimal, elegant, and open - suggesting that existence may be governed not by substance, but by stochastic rules acting on an informational substrate. It's a vision that accommodates both the rigor of physics and the depth of contemplative practice. Nothing Becomes is for those who seek meaning without myth. Presence without performance. Truth without overreach. For readers who sense that the deepest questions cannot be answered by science or spirituality alone, but perhaps by holding both with equal reverence. This is a moment, held open. An invitation to remember what was never quite forgotten.