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Witt, Terence A bold and controversial new book of physics theory by biomedical engineer and businessman Witt.

OUR UNDISCOVERED Our Undiscovered Universe opens with a quote from Galileo: “In questions of science the authority of a
UNIVERSE: thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.” In this case, the “authority” is the
Introducing Null Physics— consensus of the modern scientific community and the “single individual” is Witt, who has worked for years
The Science of Uniform and to develop “a complete answer to the riddle of our existence.” His theory is called “Null Physics,” and Witt
labors to lay its foundations bare, collecting—across some 400-plus handsomely designed pages—a panoply
Unconditional Reality
of complex proofs, tables, exhaustive indices and a handful of gorgeous reproductions of Hubble images,
Aridian Publishing (457 pp.) courtesy of NASA. The author’s primary dispute is with the “irredeemably wrong” theory of the Big Bang,
$59.00 held by most scientists to be a relatively sound account of how our universe was born. He also advances an
August 2007 “entirely new scientific paradigm,” the centerpiece of Null Physics. “The Null Axiom” can be described
ISBN: 978-0-9785931-3-1 simply: “Existence sums to non-existence, so nonexistence is composed of existence.” The book makes much
of the axiom, which becomes the core of a “unified cosmology.” Hence the “Null”—for Witt, the universe can
“only make sense by viewing it as the inevitable and omnipresent substructure of nothingness.” (Correspondingly, the Big Bang must be incorrect,
since “nothingness does not transform itself into reality.”) The problem is that while the author snipes frequently at “arrogant” professional
physicists, the author rarely engages their work. There is, for instance, only a rudimentary discussion of quantum mechanics. Eventually, Witt retreats
to his own theorems, which he has declined to submit to academic journals for vetting. Still, Our Undiscovered Universe is a brave book, if not
exactly an airtight one. The author challenges the status quo—not such an easy thing to do—and his work here is accessible to both the professional
and the layman.
A well-written, provocative re-imagining of the world as it was, is and will be.

Kirkus Discoveries, Nielsen Business Media, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003
discoveries@kirkusreviews.com

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