Essay Abstract
The Foundational Questions Institute has invited all creatures great and small to opine on what is ultimately possible in physics. While many things can be proved impossible, to say what is ultimately possible would seem to involve more than a little prophecy. Most people are extremely bad at prophecy. You might as well ask an ant. Here is a fable about an ant who dabbled in physics and metaphysics.
Author Bio
Dick Dolan's work brings metaphysical subjects such as ontology and consciousness into the domain of physics. A purely physical outgrowth of this work, his inflaton spacetime model, was recently published. His predictive metaphysics explains the motivation and justification for his spacetime model. Yes, he is a retired electrical engineer.