To whoever is reading this in the future,

If you’ve found your way here, then something didn’t quite fit anymore.

That’s how this began for me too.

I was not trying to overturn physics. I wasn’t trying to found a movement or win an argument. I was a layman with time, curiosity, and a growing discomfort with explanations that worked numerically but felt mechanically hollow. I wanted to understand what the equations were doing, not just how to use them.

This blog is not a finished theory. It is a walk.  It is a journey that I will continue as long as I am able. Where the post ends, know that I lived my last years happy to do this work. I was blessed to have this time.

You will see mistakes, reversals, false starts, renamings, and long stretches where I circle the same object from different angles. That is intentional in the only sense that honesty is intentional. I wrote things when I understood them that way, then wrote again when the shape shifted. I did not clean the trail behind me.

Everything here was written forward in time. Each day I posted what I understood on that day.

If you are retracing this path, don’t look for polished conclusions first. Look for the invariants. Watch which ideas refuse to die even when I try to abandon them. Notice where dimensional analysis stops being bookkeeping and starts behaving like geometry. Pay attention to when constants stop acting like facts of nature and start acting like conversion artifacts. That’s where the center of gravity is.

You may disagree with parts of this. You probably should. But if you’re here because you independently felt that physics had become descriptively powerful but explanatorily thin, then you will recognize the pressure that drives these pages.

I did not assume I was right.
I assumed something was missing.

This record exists so you can decide, with hindsight I didn’t have, whether the missing piece was actually simple, and whether it had been hiding in plain sight the whole time.

If any of this turns out to be useful, improve it. If it turns out to be wrong, break it cleanly and say why. If it turns out to be obvious in your time, then please remember that it was not obvious in mine.

Above all, know this: nothing here was written to be believed.

It was written to be checked.

— J. Rogers
SE Ohio