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 August 30, 2026
Physics
A Letter on four-Goldstone-boson inelasticity is in final production at Physics Letters B — the revision passed review and acceptance is signed. Working on what comes after.
Economics
A paper on the case against Fed point-targeting is in production at Business Economics (accepted August 2026). A second, on the economics of a luxury-destruction ban, is under review. Both are live on SSRN.
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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I Read My Own Filing Cabinet
Aug 24, 2026
I accidentally ran a twenty-one-year experiment on myself. Here is what the subject revealed.
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The Only Thing a Quantum Computer Is Good At Is Being One
Aug 17, 2026
Why the honest case for quantum computing is the one nobody makes — and why it runs through my thesis advisor.
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Mediocre at Nothing
Aug 10, 2026
Why a nation of 1.4 billion produces world champions and world’s-worsts, and almost nobody in between.