Explore how one field solves all of physics

For a hundred years, physics has been a tale of two views that refuse to speak to each other. Quantum mechanics describes the small atoms and particles and the strange world of probability and superposition. General relativity describes the large planets, stars, galaxies, and the smooth curved geometry of spacetime itself. Each has been tested to extraordinary precision. And yet, these two views don't get along.

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This book proposes a single answer to unifying these two views. Beneath the world we see  beneath the particles, beneath the forces, beneath spacetime itself  there is one underlying field. One thing. The substrate. Everything else is a pattern in it. Mass is a localized knot in the substrate. Charge is a twist in its phase. Gravity is its response to being deformed by mass. Forces are the patterns of how the substrate interacts with itself. Even time is not what we think it is: time is not a smooth continuous flow but a discrete pulse of the substrate, ticking ten to the power of forty-four times every second, the steady heartbeat of reality itself. From this one idea, with eight supporting principles, the entire edifice of physics rebuilds itself.