The Velcro Universe

Modern theoretical physics is full of mathematical formulas, and woefully lacking in simple explanations. Its jargon is convoluted and strange. How are we for example to imagine a two dimensional energy momentum, or a ten dimensional string. We are told that space is curved. But what does that mean?

Yet, the maths that has been produced over the years to describe physical phenomena have been impressively accurate and demonstrably correct. Modern engineering would be impossible without them.

For all its complexity and weirdness, modern physics appears to work in real life, and the consensus is that we really do live in a weird world, pretty much unfathomable to mere mortals. We must therefore humbly stand back as the professionals dig ever deeper into the realm of strange mathematics and convoluted language.

However, it may also be the case that the interpretations that have been derived from observations and formulas are in fact incorrect, and that a very much simpler model can account for the universe as we know it.

Hoping to find such a model for gravity, I came across the work of Morton Spears, an American engineer with many patents to his name.

Morton Spears (1921 - 2006) developed a simple model for both gravity and the atom. In his work, published in 1993, he admitted that he may have been over-simplifying things, but to the best of his knowledge, his model did not violate any known observation. He concluded that his model was as good as any, and since it was simpler than what was currently used, he hoped to get some recognition for it.

Not surprisingly, his work was largely ignored. Academia was not interested in the opinion of an outsider, and since his model did not solve any problems that the established models could not solve, why bother to look into it?

However, by the time I came across Morton Spears' work, it was clear to me, and many with me, that theoretical physics is in fact in a state of confusion. Things have become so complicated and convoluted that no-one is able to understand it as a whole.

Thinking myself reasonably well read when it comes to physics, I decided to take Morton Spears seriously. In particular, I decided to use his model of the atom to see if it could be used as a basis for a purely mechanical model for the inner working of the universe.

I thought it worth while to spend some time to see how far I could take Morton Spears' model before I would have to give up.

To my astonishment, and great delight, I managed to take it successfully through all the weird and wonderful mechanisms that I wanted to investigate. I had to add a lot of details to Morton Spears' model, but at no point did I get completely stuck.

It turned out that everything we know in the universe can be explained by the use of three basic quanta, one positive, one negative and one neutral. In this model, the positive quanta are covered with hooks, the negative quanta are covered by hoops, and the neutral quanta are a mix of hooks and hoops in equal measure.

Morton Spears' three quanta. Hoop covered (-), hook covered (+), and a mix (0).

There is of course no way to know if the quanta are in fact covered by hooks and hoops, but something to that effect must be the case. The model described in this book is mechanical. It relies on things colliding and sticking together, so the quanta cannot be completely smooth.

At the fundamental level, there are no forces acting magically at a distance. Nothing happens without direct contact. Everything is made up of little bundles of hooks and hoops.

There is space, time, energy, and three Velcro-like quanta. From these building blocks and a few simple rules, we can construct the entire universe.