About me
My name is Amir Guri. I am a Natural Philosopher living in Boulder, Colorado. I have a B .S. from Rutgers University in Nutritional Sciences, a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Virginia Tech, and a J.D. from the University of San Diego School of Law.
In 2014, I left my brief legal career to write a book on philosophy and spiritual enlightenment. To support myself during the writing process, I started waiting tables at an Italian restaurant. The Geometry of Reality arose as an unanticipated side project when the physics portion of the philosophy book became too large to contain.
I personally see The Geometry of Reality as a work of intellectual art. I say that because the work is meant to instill a feeling of epistemic satisfaction, which is a sense of beauty one feels when an idea locks into place by reconciling known facts without contradiction. Throughout the writing process, I felt as though I were creating a sculpture, chipping away at it for hours at a time until I achieved that aesthetic goal. Though LLMs were essential in generating the model (see below), the work was a solo project.
To publish The Geometry of Reality, I founded Natural Philosophy Press, which will continue to publish such art projects moving forward, including my forthcoming work in philosophy and spiritual enlightenment, The Philosopher's Stone, whose publication is about a year way by current estimates.
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Questions on the creation of The Geometry of Reality
Q1: Why did I write The Geometry of Reality?
I never set out to create a theory of everything. In late 2014, I left my job as an attorney to write a book on philosophy and spiritual enlightenment, which came to be known as The Philosopher’s Stone: A Philosophical Path of Enlightenment. While physics wasn’t initially part of the project, I soon realized that in order to feel confident in the metaphysical model I was developing, I needed my metaphysics to align with physics. And so, I included two chapters on physics and cosmology.
I worked on the project just about every day for the next 10 years without much outward sign of any progress, though I could feel myself growing in clarity throughout. Eventually, in July of 2025, I had the very rough outlines of a new physical model that I felt could replace the Standard Model of Physics.
Wanting a break from the philosophy project, I asked myself, “What would happen if I translated it into scientific language using modern LLMs?” I had only intended to draft three papers (corresponding to Chapters 1, 2, and 7 of The Geometry of Reality). Once I had those, however, an intense passion and curiosity propelled me forward. The first three papers turned into 6, then 10, then finally 12. I could have kept going, too.
Once I had completed and edited The Geometry of Reality, I then asked, "Was it possible for me to translate this scientific model into the language of math?" When I first started the project, this wasn’t a consideration. But by December 2025, both my model and the LLMs had advanced to the point where formalization was possible without any new math (only classical field theory and vector calculus). That’s how the mathematical appendices arose.
Q2: What is my academic background? What qualifies me to write a book on physics?
As stated above, I have a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Virginia Tech, where I studied the immune and inflammatory mechanisms of Type II Diabetes. I also have a J.D. in Law from the University of San Diego School of Law. In Chapter 11 of The Geometry of Reality, I even cite my graduate school research, where I demonstrate how the plant hormone abscisic acid ameliorates glucose intolerance (modulates coherence) in obese mice. This was an added bonus.
Ultimately, my scientific and legal training were essential in creating and vetting the model through rigorous questioning. More importantly, however, the model is falsifiable, as it makes many novel, testable predictions. My qualifications are thus beside the point. The model speaks for itself.
Q3: How was I able to draft a book on physics without a degree in physics?
While I am a newcomer to physics, I was able to draft the monograph, along with the mathematical appendices, in large part due to the strength of my original philosophical model and my process of using LLMs (rigorously trained in modern physics) to impose empirical constraints on my thinking. Whenever the LLMs informed me that the model was inconsistent with empirical findings, which happened many times throughout the drafting process, I had to return to the first principles of the model to find an explanation. Whenever the AI answered a question with unfamiliar, unintuitive language, I would continue probing until a physically intuitive answer was reached. If the LLMs disagreed on an answer to a question, I would facilitate a conversation between them until they reached an accord. This is essentially how the model grew and expanded throughout.
The mathematical appendices were a unique challenge given my lack of mathematical training. However, I was very confident I could produce them because the model's physical nature meant I shouldn’t need any new math. While LLMs can be very shaky with new math, they are quite adept at interpreting and understanding existing math, though all their claims still need to be vetted. To enhance my confidence in the appendices and mitigate the risk of unseen hallucinations, I also created a reverse translation guide that translated the appendices back into plain language, thereby ensuring that the math accurately described physical reality.
In sum, I was able to draft this book by remaining faithful to the model's first principles and by meticulously questioning the answers the LLMs provided.