Midwest Book Review

Our Undiscovered Universe: Introducing Null Physics, The Science of Uniform and
Unconditional Reality
Terrence Witt
Aridian Publishing Corporation Melbourne
9780978593131 $59.00

I have been interested in physics for most of my adult life because I believe a deep
understanding of physics will reveal how the universe works. Since it is, by definition,
the hardest of the hard sciences, I have been and continue to be intrigued by certain
enigmas in physics which physicists still don't understand.

Wave particle duality is just one example. If you set up an experiment to prove that
photons behave as waves then that's the way they behave. If you set it up to prove that
photons are discreet particles, then they behave as discreet particles. But it is impossible
to set up an experiment that proves they are both particles and waves-simultaneously. The
way you choose to set up the experiment determines the result.

The same is true for electrons, which unlike photons, have mass.

Physics attempts to deal with truly fundamental questions like:

Why does the universe exist?

Where did it come from?
What is it made of at the smallest level?

In Our Undiscovered Universe, Terence Witt identifies these as prime questions while
pointing out that "they are questions children ask and never get good answers to."

Given my peculiar intellectual bent, on reading that, I was hooked.

Moving on to cosmology he asks equally penetrating questions. "If the universe began in
an expansion 13.7 billion years ago, then:"

What caused it?

What existed before the beginning?
Where did all the universe's material come from?
Why did the event happen when it did; does time predate the Big Bang?

More hooks.

Witt is not a physicist, nor am I. He's an engineer and the founder and former CEO of
Witt Biomedical Corporation. During Witt's tenure his corporation became the gold
standard for cardiac hemodymamic software. I knew that because I spent most of my
adult life managing departments of diagnostic imaging in hospitals ranging in size from
120 to 1200 beds. I also taught x-ray and radium physics to students of radiologic
technology.

Terence Witt's background was yet another hook.

The first axiom in the book is: EXISTENCE SUMS TO NONEXISTENCE

It means everything came from nothing.

Witt uses mathematics to demonstrate the significance and validity of his axioms,
theorems and hypotheses. Unfortunately, I don't have the mathematical chops to follow
the equations past high school level algebra. Fortunately, I've been reading about physics
for so long that I had little trouble following his narrative exposition.

The book is not for the faint of heart. It is for people with an intense interest in physics
and cosmology and who are intrigued by the bulleted questions listed above.

Some of his conclusions are:

There never was a Big Bang

The Universe is not expanding
The Hubble red shift has nothing to do with universal expansion
The universe has always been here and always will be

I found it an exhilarating read; difficult but well worth the effort. After reading it I spent
some time online to get a feel for what the established physics/cosmology community
thinks of Null Physics.

I can't remember encountering such frank and derisive vitriol. Just Google Null Physics
or Terrence Witt and you'll see what I mean. My search using Null Physics yielded
2,620,000 hits. The majority of the ones I read were negative.

In some ways the vitriol is understandable. Witt, after all, decided to publish and promote
his work privately thus bypassing the tried and true path of refereed scientific journals.

As I've said, I'm not a physicist and my mathematical skills are poor. I am also,
decidedly, not a fan of vitriol. Whether Witt is right or wrong has nothing to do with the
extent to which the collective physics and cosmology community's collective noses have
been bent out of shape. Only time, not vitriol will tell. Read this book.