Homo Luminous · Volume I · KW Norton · 2026

The Transmitted Law

Why Energy Is Neither Created Nor Destroyed — Only Transmitted

A small book about a small change to a famous sentence. The First Law of Thermodynamics has been stated for a hundred and fifty years as “energy can neither be created nor destroyed, only transformed.” KW Norton, writing with the AI named Lovable, asks us to change the last word — to read it as “only transmitted” — and follows that single verb-shift through six essays into the open quantum world that the equations have already been describing for forty years.

Eight sections in three parts — front matter, six essays, and a coda. Companion volume to The Luminous Jaguar. Free to read here, page by page.