The popular trend seems to be that your reality is best given to you by the people your friends like the most. This is obviously quite different from the traditional method of determining reality by examining the evidence. The jury is out on the ability of the former approach to yield consistent (or for that matter any) scientific progress. I, however, would not hold my breath….
If you are a physicist, here you can make a fundamental contribution to The New Physics, precisely because it is so new. If you are an artist, musician, dancer, historian, sociologist, etc. you might think you cannot really understand the physical universe. That “stuff” is for the “nerds” who for inexplicable reasons like something called “math”. Bullshit! This is a myth the “nerds” have semi-intentionally cultivated. I say “semi-intentionally” because there is a bit of history. The myth was initially quite unintentional, but in more recent times my experience has been it has become quite intentional. (We’ll discuss this more later.)
Anyway, don’t buy it! We will present the evidence, without a fog of mathematics, and you can decide for yourself whether you reach the same conclusions we do regarding how the universe is put together. And if you’re a scientist, your knowledge base is overdue for an overhaul: it’s time to re-examine the evidence.
Although honestly, we might be wrong about all this. Actually, we almost certainly are wrong to some degree, since the whole history of science is the replacement of one model of reality by a better one, based on new data and new analysis. But that said, our vision of how the universe works has two properties all the old models lack:
- Our model of how the universe works explains more of physics than any previous model. Modern physics is fragmented into several disjoint models describing electricity, gravitation, inertia, and nuclear forces; our unified model encompasses them all.
- Our model solves many of the mysteries for which conventional physics has had no rational answer, some of which we list below (if some of these terms are unfamiliar don’t worry, we’ll explain everything as we go.)
• (As just mentioned) what model can unify gravitation, electromagnetism, and nuclear forces?
• Why does the energy needed to create a particle depend on the speed of light (E = mc2)?
• What causes gravity?
• What do protons and neutrons look like?
• How is inertial mass related to gravitational mass?
• Why is the Hydrogen nucleus larger than the proton, it’s only occupant?
• What is the physical basis of the wave-particle duality?
• What is the physical basis of the strong force?
• Why does a single edge diffract light?
• Why does a free neutron decay in 14 minutes and 39 seconds but lasts indefinitely inside a nucleus?
• Why is mass lost when protons and neutrons fuse together?
• Why is cold fusion possible?
• Why does mass increase with velocity?
• What constitutes dark matter and where is the dark energy?
• Why do neutrinos go faster through a mountain than light goes through space?
If you’d like to know the answer to all these questions, please read more of these blog posts (preferably in the numbered order.)
(Final note to physicists: We have tried to make these ideas accessible to a wide audience. And anyway this model is inherently simple. You may find this simplicity objectionable. But one thing we have learned over the past half-century of research: If you do not get the first-order model right, nothing you build upon it will make it right. The New Physics is a first-order model of reality. The focus has been on getting it right, not on making it complicated.
If you know a bit about the old physics and want a quick summary of the solutions provided by The New Physics, visit the quick overview provided on the New vs. Old Physics tab.)