Douglas Adams' 42 joke was that having the answer to the universe was useless if you forget what the question is & required the building of an even bigger machine to be built to find that question. This must sit too close to home for current physics
Physicists have awesome measurements & machines. Of that we can't deny. And we are the very lucky recipients of their efforts. But they have made one fundamental error. Physicists have mistaken the measurements for the thing they are measuring.
They know the dimensions & calories of an apple & how fast it falls. The problem is now that they have such large toolkit of numbers, all they can see is Pi..... but lost sight of the Pie.
PT can show them the shape, taste, texture & smell, even the sound as the apple pie is cracked open without the need for a multiple-country-spanning particle accelerators. PT hopes to reveal the structure of the universe if physicists are willing to let go of their numbers & fabulous machines even just long enough to take a fresh look for the structure they are missing.
Together with open minds we can share the pie & the recipe. The question & the answer.
& perhaps...
PT is the question to that 42.
Physics has been building bigger machines & looking for smaller particles for half a century. The discoveries have been real but the returns are diminishing & the next predicted pieces keep not showing up. Something may need to shift.
Quietly & in parallel, another revolution has been underway. Photonics. Light replacing electrons in computing, in communications, in sensing. Not because it's a neat trick but because light is fundamentally better at being the universe than matter is. We are all, perhaps without fully realising it, being pulled toward a photonics era.
Phen Theory proposes that this pull has a reason. That light is not just a useful tool but the actual structural foundation of everything, including matter itself. PT aims to show how the universe is not made of things light passes through but of light itself, folded & tensioned into the appearance of things.
The structure we seek could simply require looking at the assembly diagrams instead of making bigger hammers, as the real room design might even be built without a single bang. Perhaps all we needed was a few strings & some knots to tie a few planks together that keep stretching apart.
This may be wrong in its details. It is certainly incomplete as an open & public process of brainstorming. But if it points in a direction worth exploring, then it has done its job.
We may be standing at the beginning of a photonics era...
The question is whether we are ready to look at light not as something the universe produces, but as something the universe is.
The 3 simple thought experiments that revealed the basic structure of the PT model.
Then maybe have a look at the Symmetric Ternary system that forms the logic for all of the components of PT before exploring the rest of the Phen Theory Model
If you were wondering what Dark Matter & Dark energy are as well as their cosmological ratios, then you'll definitely want to check out this page
Has PT unified Quantum Mechanics with General Relativity via its discovery of Quantum Gravity & how to calculate it?
A notation & terminology reference can be found at the bottom of every page.