Our Undiscovered Universe: Introducing Null Physics: The Science of Uniform and Unconditional Reality

by Terence Witt

Some shelf and edge wear, and a few scratches to dust jacket. Boards and pages are in fine condition. Pages are clean and binding is tight.

Genres: Science

479 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Give Terence Witt five minutes and he can tell you why the Big Bang never happened. In Our Undiscovered Univese, Witt presents his theory about astronomy and the universe that debunks the widely accepted Big Bang Theory. His theory contemplates three questions: why does the universe exist, where did it come front and what is it made of at the smallest level?
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Reviews

[Maurice Williams · Rating 4 out of 5]

“Our Undiscovered Universe” was advertised in some prestigious magazines such as “Discovery” and “National Geographic.” They were two page ads with the claim that this book is all about the following question that has stumped physicists for thirty years: “Why does the universe exist?” Witt claims his book will reveal many of nature’s secrets to a depth and clarity never before imagined. Intrigued, I got his book to glimpse these secrets myself.

Witt’s Null Physics has only one axiom: “Existence sums to non-existence.” This axiom sounds like it is already cast into technical language. The sentence understood in ordinary English provides, for me, no meaningful insight into what existence is. Witt starts off asking his reader to choose one side of a contradiction: “Either the universe came from somewhere, or it never came from anywhere.” Witt opts for the universe not coming from anywhere. But there is big jump from that position to the statement “Existence sums to non-existence.” Witt apparently doesn’t recognize anything as real other than the physical universe. He argues that the universe didn’t come from anywhere: “The universe has existed forever and will continue to exist for eternity.” In his view, the universe is not only eternal; it “is already infinitely large.”

Witt early on discusses causality, using as an example the chicken and the egg. I think the folklore question “what came first: the chicken or the egg” is really a riddle most likely meant to show the validity of cause and effect. Witt takes a strange view of it, actually using it to explain why there is no causality in his view of the universe. The universe just happens to exist – period. There’s no beginning to it, no end, no limit to its size, no cause for anything that occurs in the universe. His universe is a self-contained unit, having all the components of the physical universe within itself, not requiring any outside agents to effect any phenomena in the universe. “It cannot have any causation because the state preceding each event is perfectly homogeneous. Chickens cause eggs and eggs cause chickens continuously over time.” He criticizes the Big Bang theory for introducing a first cause. The Big Bang, he claims, “is the egg that never came from a chicken.”

Witt claims that no one has a clue why the universe is here. I think he’s wrong. There are other schools of learning that claim to know why the universe is here. Both philosophy and theology, especially theology based on divine revelation, argue that God created the universe. For the moment, it doesn’t matter if they are correct or wrong; what does matter is that other scholars have, indeed, claimed to know why the universe exists. Let’s say that I am an unbiased and ignorant observer, ignorant in that I am unfamiliar with any speculation about the origin of the universe. Then I encounter Witt’s Null Theory along with arguments that God created the universe. Without any doubt, I would accept that God created the universe. A supreme non-physical, spiritual being, eternal and omnipresent, as well as all-powerful, creating the physical universe, arranging it and guiding it makes a lot more sense to me than Witt’s argument. His argument about causality alone would raise doubts in my mind. Our collective outlooks on both science and law enforcement are both fueled by cause and effect. If law enforcement encounters a crime scene, nobody brushes it off as a chance event. They will always conduct a search for the person who caused the event. In science or medicine, if something is observed to happen, scientists and doctors will always launch a search for the cause of what happened.

I found “Our Undiscovered Universe” thought provoking. Terrence Witt presents an overview of current cosmological theories and tries to resolve what he sees as inconsistencies in current thinking. For those interested in mathematics, he includes much math to illustrate how Null Physics explains observed phenomena. Witt claims his Null Physics is free of the inconsistencies that mar current theories. Terrence Witt caused me to reconsider my own perceptions about the universe and to be aware of how others view the universe. I enjoyed the mental exercise his book stirred up in me. I think “Our Undiscovered Universe” is well worth the reading; but, to understand the full ramifications of Null Physics to observed phenomena, one would have to be a mathematician.

[Lorileinart · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is a straight-up text book, very heavy on mathematical formulas & uninteresting visual aids.
Having said that, I was completely absorbed with Witt's logic that the sum total of everything is nothing. This is his description of reality, and in some ways, it makes sense. It solves some of the problems that we encounter with the big bang (unsurmountable problems, in my opinion) and other more recent theories that try to explain the nature and origins of the universe.
In short, Witt proposes that the universe has ALWAYS been here and always will be (because the "creation" of the universe via big bang violates the laws of thermodynamics). Existence is essentially a subset of Nonexistence and one cannot occur without the other. These propositions were interesting to me and fun to ponder...but that's about where it ends. The rest, including his meandering, unscientific data, were purely ridiculous.

[Brian · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book offers mind boggling insight into the universe. Best science book I have ever read to date. But the guy (Terrance) is a genius like Einstein believe me I don't use that word loosely. Its the most profound book I have read outside of religion. He discovered not invented something that is amazing to put in words. Basically the Big Bang is a crock. The universe is eternal and infinite just as I felt, but this book tells me why in great detail, plus other questions I had unanswered. I've been waiting for something like this since I was able to ask the tough questions about the universe.

Another thing for a author/scientist that made such a remarkable discovery into the inner most workings of the universe he's very humble soft spoken guy. I listened to his podcast, which makes this very evident by his speech style and personality. So I know he's the real deal, not seeking fame and fortune. He just has a unrelenting passion for this stuff, why else would he have stuck with this for 37 years to discover all this.

[Aaron Schiffer · Rating 3 out of 5]

I typically love any attempt to derive the Universe from First Principles. It was imaginative in that regard. And he further makes falsifiable predictions, so his Null Physics represents a solid scientific hypothesis. I'm not sure about whether he can do much to make falsifiable his premises, which rest on not so much observation as metaphysics or logic. I'm almost certain that in his train of logic, he mixes up definitions, because he somehow moves from logical terms as Ockham would use them, to corporeal physical entities. Still very interesting and probably instructive.

[Ellen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sometimes, it's great to browse textbooks. We pick up all kinds of knowledge. I always tell my students to browse chapter outlines and marginalia, glossaries, and detailed tables of contents, and that's what I did with this book. I learned a lot about physics, something I did not get to study in school. Chapter summaries and outlines are well written and intriguing even for lay people. Sometimes, we have to step outside our comfort zone, and this is a terrific way to read our way out of it.

[Lance · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic read, you have to read it from the beginning or the math later on and the overall theory will be lost to you.

[Mirko Popovich · Rating 4 out of 5]

Presents a great new perspective to understand our Universe.