Physics Without Divinity: A Relational Ontology of Constraint and Possibility

If the first series traced the hidden gods of physics, this second series asks: what remains when we clear them away?

Physics need not be theology in disguise. But to free it from divine residue, we must reconstrue its concepts not as decrees, commandments, or eternal truths, but as perspectival cuts within a relational process.

This series reframes the same terrains explored in Theology in Physics, but from a different angle:

• Law without Commandment — not cosmic decrees, but relational constraints that emerge in interaction.

• Creation without Genesis — not ex nihilo, but unfolding actualisations of potential.

• Transcendence without Divinity — not timeless absolutes, but perspectival positions within processes.

• Metaphysics without Substance — not inert particles or immutable constants, but patterned constraints that hold only in relation.

Where physics sought eternal laws, relational ontology sees constraints that actualise within shifting contexts. Where physics invokes beginnings and endings, relational ontology sees cuts in the flow of potential. Where physics projects timeless truths, relational ontology finds perspectival alignments.

Physics Without Divinity is not a rejection of physics, but a refusal of its hidden theology. It is an invitation to see physics otherwise: as a practice of mapping possibility and constraint within the becoming of relation.