Samir Varma
Physicist, hedge-fund founder, and author.
I study systems that are deterministic, hard to predict, and impossible to ignore: particles, markets, AI, and human choice.
PhD theoretical physics, UT Austin · Author of The Science of Free Will · Co-Founder of VS Asset Management · Inventor on eight US patents
Now — as of April 28, 2026
Physics
A new paper on a universal pattern in fermion mass ratios is out in European Physical Journal C, with a follow-up in Modern Physics Letters A. Working on what comes after.
Writing
Weekly. Direct, first person, no PR voice — physics, AI, free will, markets.
Trading
Running Risk Timing® at VS Asset Management — long-term US equity exposure with explicit drawdown management.
Book
The Science of Free Will
How Determinism Affects Everything from the Future of AI to Traffic to God to Bees. Foreword by Tyler Cowen.
Physics is deterministic; you have no free will in theory. But the universe is computationally irreducible; you have perfect free will in practice.
“Free will is the absence of being able to predict what will occur.” The book shows why both are true at once — and what that means for AI, ethics, justice, and the bees.
Praise
I am delighted to see this work come to fruition. Samir Varma breaks down barriers in this fascinating book on determinism … you are part of the causal chain steering your actions in complex, unpredictable ways.
A wonderfully entertaining case for determinism. I learned a lot about wave functions, computability and Artificial Intelligence … I learned a lot, enjoyed the book, and I predict you will too!
An intellectual tour-de-force … weaves an exhaustive interdisciplinary study through science, mathematics, computer science, and philosophy. With compelling evidence and insightful caveats, it challenges readers to reconsider the boundaries between determinism and human agency.
Recent writing
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You Can't Quietly Park at 0.1c
May 18, 2026
What the Physics Actually Says About the Alien Probe Hypothesis
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Accession (The Kashmir dispute)
May 11, 2026
How a Maharaja's Sex Scandal, Seven Days of British Ownership, One Panicked Signature, and Seventy-Eight Years of Spectacular Mutual Stubbornness Created the World's Most Ironic Territorial Dispute
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So You Want to Be a Quant
May 4, 2026
What is the sound of one hand clapping?