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Our Undiscovered Universe: Introducing Null Physics: The Science of Uniform and Unconditional Reality

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It is amazing (and encouraging) that the author could find a company to publish this book. He has discovered (or rediscovered) the view that the universe had no beginning and is made out of nothing. He reasons in a mainly intuitive way about that, and it is a view not inconsistent with several Buddhist schools of thinking. While he uses mathematics-like notation from the start, he is either unwilling or unable to make direct contact with a self-consistent notational system. So, he talks about "sums," in a sense that the universe is "zero sum," but he doesn't bother to clarify what objects he is summing or what the summation consists of. So, he sums, but doesn't say what objects he's summing or what the operation of summation consists of. That's really not exactly cricket (or math--or physics).

His points are made of nothing, and, yet, they don't exactly have zero dimension, as the points of Euclidean space are thought to have. So, he speaks about dimension in a strange way and a way that is not made very clear (to me). He has a vestigial fourth dimension that gives completeness and extent to a system that is actually missing the steps usually used in standard constructions to pass to a complete one dimensional space for the number line. Does he have to do things in a standard way? Of course not, but he does have to provide some actual mechanism for completeness if he intends to claim completeness. It's not there.

It seems to me that our ordinary science understands too little about the universe---for sure. In that, the author is quite right. Still, one bit of knowledge that is quite well tested and very secure is that our space and time do have a locally Lorentzian structure. If anyone wishes to explain the structure of space and time---whether in a new way or an old way---it is absolutely required that the model somehow explain how this locally Lorentzian nature arises. It's very important. It is one of the few things we really know well about the structure that exists. The author is unclear about the origins of the spatial metric, let alone the Lorentzian metric. So, without that---what good could the rest be?

This, then, is an example of the extremely active qualitative workings of a creative mind, but it is not cast in a formally self-consistent and coherent way. It has every right to be called natural philosophy. There is nothing that we can really disqualify as natural philosophy. Still, the mystical and non-quantitative musings of a Buddhist sage would be at least as valuable---and probably more. Perhaps it would be better to read Tsong-ha-pa or the Dalai Lama. Their minds are at least as creative and more disciplined toward understandable and consistent expressions.

One of the problems with a Big Bang theory or its derivatives is that you can't solve the problem of infinite regression of universe creation. The author has the courage to point out the obvious problem of the Big Bang Theory, the fact that it breaks so many laws of physics, namely the law of conservation of energy.

So for starters, if the universe expanded from a superdense particle of matter, what did it expand into? A vacuum? Really? How was it contained before? What held it? How long was it like that? What is the boundary between this expanding universe and whatever is beyond? How do you classify what is inside and outside the universe?

It is simple questions like this that a youngster would ask, but for which there are no explanations in the current model, that are addressed in this book. Maybe the book has a hard time explaining its premise, but the premise of something coming from nothing (a Big Bang) has to be seen as an equally troublesome premise.

Mr. Witt had the courage to at least address these questions. Perhaps the problem that Copernicus and Galileo each faced is not unique in science, at any point in history.

Good luck Mr. Witt!

This is surely one of the most outstanding books I have ever read. It solves all of the worries I have had about the Big Bang theory. The author develops his arguments succinctly, effectively, and thoroughly. It will be a treasure for years to come, and I intend to share it with any friends also interested in the subject.

Weird, pseudo-scientific religious cultery. A waste of paper and ink. I only gave it one star because Amazon won't take 0 stars.

The book was in excellent condition- just like new. I have never got a deal this good before. How do these guys stay in business?