Nathan M. Thornhill is an independent researcher in complexity science, information theory, and computational physics. Founder of the Institute for Complexity Science and Advanced Computing (ICSAC); works without university affiliation or grant funding. Came to the research from a clinical healthcare career (nursing assistant through ICU admissions). Discoverer of the 86% scaling law for dimensional boundary information loss. Author of The Existence Threshold, The 86% Scaling Law, The Dimensiona