A theory of everything should be simple. Remember Occam’s razor. All our understanding of the laws of the universe must reflect this because fundamentally the universe itself, at its most basic level, is also uncomplicated. How could it be otherwise?

Regrettably, over the past few decades modern particle physics seems to have lost its way in this regard. It operates as if the only way forward is to spend billions on experiments, with armies of scientists and engineers working on arcane abstract ideas that very few people fully understand or even care about. This may have been appropriate for technology-based research like early space exploration and nuclear bomb development where there were many different and complex problems to solve, but to formulate theories like how the whole universe operates based on the structure and interactions of fundamental particles, requires no committee or big science. Merely abundant curiosity, coupled with a deep desire to discover something new. Also of great benefit is an open mind, plus a good knowledge of physics, with access to an excellent reference library that is the internet. No scientist before this century had such a resource at their fingertips.

Furthermore, to be useful, physics must measure and predict. That is why it is so heavily based on mathematics and formulates equations. However, it must also propose theories that explain how and why things happen in a manner that an interested person could follow. Unfortunately as it struggles to maintain credibility, modern physics can take us down a rabbit hole full of bizarre concepts like the Higgs boson, quarks, multi universes with eleven dimensions and time flowing backwards, but like all rabbit holes, the deeper it goes the more certain it is to become a dead end.

So much so that today, a great deal of particle physics is incomprehensible, inconsistent and incomplete. Very few people can understand or are interested in the standard model, and physics itself is unable to reconcile its theories of the very small with those of the very large. It is also unable to explain what over 90% of the universe actually is, following the discovery of dark matter and dark energy.

There is a story of a man who found a magnificent watch but was unable to fathom how it worked or even open it. He saw the hands going round and round in a regular fashion but knew not how or why. Frustrated, he eventually picked up a sledgehammer and hit it hard, smashing it to pieces. Is this what we are doing at CERN – building bigger sledgehammers?

This book offers a theory about how to create matter, not destroy it.

So, what is an origin of everything, and dare we hope to find it by theorising unusual new ideas? For the second question, I think the answer is a resounding yes, although birth and change are often painful necessities. The first though, will take much longer to digest with considerable thought and debate, most of it new, because until now there have not been any proposed theories that successfully unify a broken physics.

To advance this theory we will enlist the aid of a new branch of physics called Structural Electrodynamics or SED. Originally, this was primarily concerned with how elementary particles are created from energy and offered a model to do this. However, here it also proposes a universal system based on this model whereby all structure and interactions in the universe have a common underlying component that can be readily understood. A world in a grain of sand that we can hold in the palm of our hand.

There is structure in everything from atoms to galaxies. Why can’t we accept that elementary particles also have structure?