HORIZON: Inside the Moonshot Division Researching Parallel Universes, Teleportation and Programmable Matter

United States, September 19, 2026 — HORIZON, the moonshot research division operating within Y-LAB — a subsidiary of the EVERYTHING Company — is opening a window onto a research portfolio that reads like science fiction and is being pursued with entirely conventional scientific rigor. Twenty long-shot research programs are now underway, spanning genuine parallel universes, quantum teleportation of macroscopic objects, true programmable matter, traversable wormholes, room-temperature fusion claims, and human metabolic suspension. Public research papers on these projects will be released.

What HORIZON is

Y-LAB is the research and innovation arm of the group, and it runs two units. GRAVITY 51 acquires majority stakes in early-stage startups. HORIZON is the other: the internal moonshot research division, defined in the organization’s own knowledge base as the place for “ambitious, high-risk initiatives that emerge from internal research and development, often testing ideas that are still far from proven or market-ready.”

LINKSPREED, the decentralized-internet company founded by Marc Herdina in 2020 and known for its Web4 architecture, is also part of the EVERYTHING Company — and it is from that shared culture of building foundations rather than features that HORIZON draws its mandate. But HORIZON’s projects are deliberately decoupled from any product roadmap. Most of them have, by explicit internal assessment, no connection whatsoever to a commercial offering. That is the point.

“A moonshot division that only researches things adjacent to what the company already sells is not a moonshot division,” HORIZON said. “It’s a product team with a better name.”

The honesty rule

HORIZON’s most unusual characteristic is not the exotic subject matter. It is the requirement that every project state its real probability of success out loud — and that this probability is, in most cases, vanishingly small. Internal guidance places several of these programs in the range of roughly 0.00001 percent likelihood of achieving their headline goal. Not zero. But not remotely close to a bet.

Every project is bound by the same research standards: only real, citable, predominantly peer-reviewed sources; never an invented study, formula, or measurement; and every simulation or calculation reported must have actually been executed. Each program must also name the smaller, serious scientific core that retains independent value even if the headline goal fails completely — the methods developed, the bounds tightened, the instrumentation improved, the educational value produced.

The portfolio

Project United — Verifying and Signaling Across Genuine Parallel Universes. An open-ended investigation into whether the existence of genuine parallel universes, in the sense of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, could ever be experimentally constrained or used for signaling. The research explicitly formalizes why many-worlds is not directly testable under current understanding — there is no known mechanism for information exchange between branches — and tests whether increasingly precise interference experiments with progressively larger levitated objects could gradually narrow which interpretations remain consistent. It includes numerical simulation of decohering quantum systems at increasing scale, and a deliberately speculative theoretical sketch of a hypothetical “branch differentiation detector” that states precisely which established law — the no-communication theorem, unitarity — would have to be broken or reinterpreted for it to work. HORIZON classifies United as among the least likely projects in the entire portfolio.

Project Beam — Quantum Teleportation of Macroscopic Inanimate Objects. Pure quantum information research, grounded in actual quantum teleportation rather than fabrication-and-reassembly networks.

Project ReShape — True Programmable Matter via Reconfigurable Micro-Scale Matter States. Genuine materials research into matter that can be reconfigured on command, pursued as physics rather than as a hardware module.

Project Chronos — Engineered Local Time Dilation via Extreme Gravitational/Velocity Analogues. Relativistic fundamental physics and precision metrology.

Project Threshold — Mathematical and Physical Feasibility of Traversable Wormholes. General relativity as pure fundamental research.

Project Mirage — Active Broadband Optical Invisibility via Metamaterials. Optics and materials research into cloaking across a broad spectral band.

Project Continuum — Feasibility Assessment of Whole-Brain Emulation and Consciousness Transfer. Bordering neuroscience and the philosophy of consciousness.

Project Mindlink — Direct Brain-to-Brain Information Transfer Beyond Motor Signals. Fundamental neuroscience research, deliberately separated from any identity or biometric application.

Project Cryosleep — Human Metabolic Suspension for Long-Duration Endurance. Medical fundamental research and cryobiology.

Project Babel — Toward Structured Cross-Species Signal Decoding (Not Telepathy). Bioacoustics and cognition research — and note the parenthetical, which HORIZON insisted on: this is signal decoding, not mind reading.

Project Aeris — Real Physical Levitation Mechanisms and Their Payload Limits. Applied physics, focused specifically on where real levitation mechanisms stop working.

Project Tempest — Localized Weather Modification: Real Techniques and Their Limits. Meteorological fundamental research, with the limits given equal billing to the techniques.

Project Solace — Reassessing Room-Temperature and Low-Energy Nuclear Reaction Claims and Project Perpetua — Rigorous Assessment of Zero-Point Energy Extraction Claims. Two energy-research programs whose stated purpose is rigorous reassessment — including, where warranted, rigorous refutation.

Project Tachyon — Rigorously Bounding Superluminal Signaling via Quantum Correlations and Project Foresight — Testing the Limits of Retrocausality in Quantum Experiments. Quantum information theory and quantum foundations.

Project Levity — Reassessing Propellantless Propulsion and Gravitational-Field Manipulation Claims and Project Bastion — Directed-Energy and Plasma-Based Deflection Concepts. Propulsion, gravitational physics, and applied plasma physics.

Project Mirrorborn — Assessing (and Largely Refuting) Living Human Teleportation. The most speculative project in the portfolio — and the only one whose title announces its likely conclusion in advance.

And, notably, one project that is not exotic at all:

Project SnaxNox — Global Autonomous Drone Swarm Delivery Network: Feasibility and Field Design. Retained deliberately as the “normal,” genuinely buildable project in the portfolio — a reminder that a moonshot division should also occasionally land something.

Two documents, and only one of them is public

Each HORIZON project produces two strictly separated deliverables.

The first is an internal research dossier: the complete, unabridged scientific working document for the HORIZON file — potentially 200 pages or more where the substance genuinely supports it, never padded. It contains the full literature review with three to six sentences of contextual assessment per major source, the complete formal derivation including discarded alternatives, the actual runnable source code of every simulation, all raw data and full result tables from every run including intermediate and abandoned approaches, an honest limitations section naming which laws of nature stand in the way, a dedicated “Red Team” section in which the researchers argue as hard as they can against their own idea, an explicit quantitative success-probability estimate, a survey of the surrounding research landscape, and a resource and cost roadmap. This document is confidential and is not published.

The second is a public brief: strictly ten pages maximum, shorter where shorter is clearer. No technical appendix, no raw data, no full result tables, no printed source code. It covers exactly three things, in order — the Problem (what unsolved or extremely improbable question is being examined, and what established science says about it), the Research Direction (the conceptual thrust, at an altitude that makes the core idea comprehensible without exposing derivations or implementation detail), and the Why (why an investigation with a vanishingly small success probability is still worth conducting, and what independent scientific value survives complete failure). Both documents are written entirely in English.

These public briefs will be released. HORIZON has indicated that suitable external channels — including preprint categories such as arXiv, and long-form public writing — are being evaluated per project.

Why publish work that will probably fail

The reasoning offered is straightforward. Research artifacts that represent a contribution to a better internet, or more broadly a contribution to humanity, are treated with a default of transparency. A negative result, rigorously obtained and honestly reported, is a genuine contribution — it tells the next team where not to spend a decade. A tightened bound on superluminal signaling is real physics. A carefully constructed refutation of living human teleportation is real physics. A simulation of decoherence rates at increasing system size is real physics, regardless of what it implies about parallel universes.

Creativity and innovation, HORIZON stressed, are extremely important to this work — not as a slogan, but as a methodological position. The willingness to take a science-fiction premise seriously enough to calculate it properly is what produces the honest answer, in either direction. Refusing to ask the question produces nothing at all.

“The point is not to promise anyone a wormhole,” HORIZON said. “The point is to do the calculation properly, publish what we find, and be straightforward about the odds while we do it.”

A note on licenses

Readers, researchers, and developers are asked to keep one practical point in mind. Public release is not the same as unrestricted use. The briefs, papers, datasets, figures, and any accompanying code released through this program each carry their own license terms, which govern attribution, redistribution, modification, and commercial use in different ways.

Always check the license attached to the specific artifact before using, reproducing, adapting, or building on it — and respect its terms. Openness works precisely because those terms are honored.

About Y-LAB, HORIZON and the EVERYTHING Company

Y-LAB is the research and innovation division of the group, operating two units: HORIZON, the internal moonshot research division, and GRAVITY 51, which takes 51 percent stakes in early-stage startups. Y-LAB is a subsidiary of the EVERYTHING Company, which also includes LINKSPREED — the self-funded technology company founded in August 2020 by Marc Herdina, operating through LINKSPREED LLC (United States) and LINKSPREED UG (Germany), and building the decentralized Web4 internet architecture around self-sovereign identity, connectivity, computing, name resolution, software, applications, and hardware.

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