This is a story about the universe. It’s not a complete story; and it might not even be right. But it’s better than what we’ve got now. Not that what we’ve got now is wrong. I just think it stops short of a much larger story. A story that allows the quantum nature of reality to make sense. Science, it seems, has fallen on hard times. These days, funding for scientific research is often supplied by biased sources with a vested interest in specific outcomes. When business, political, or religious interests start guiding the hand of scientific inquiry, the credibility of science suffers.

According to Lee Smolin, physics is in a rut. I will not be getting into how it got there or what’s keeping it there. The rut itself has to do with two highly successful schools of thought. General Relativity, which explains the behavior of the very large; and the Standard Model or Quantum Physics which explains the very small. Unfortunately, neither one of these can explain the other. They are incompatible. Physicists and mathematicians have been stringing us along for decades with various theories that attempt to reconcile these two ideas; but it’s just not working.