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Publisher: Inperspective Publications
Published: Oct 20 2026
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.37
Height: 0.56 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
For more than a century, modern physics has transformed our understanding of the universe. Yet some of its deepest questions remain unanswered. How did supermassive black holes form so quickly? What gives matter its mass? Why do forces exist? Where is the missing antimatter? Why does gravity always attract? Are dark matter and dark energy really necessary?
These questions are usually treated as separate mysteries, each requiring its own explanation. But what if they are all connected? In One Step Back, Robert J. Conover explores this possibility. Instead of introducing new mathematics or discarding established physics, he asks whether the same observations, the same equations, and the same experimental evidence can be understood from a different physical perspective.
Beginning with the simple premise that space may be filled with a continuous physical Substrate, the book develops a coherent framework in which particles, fields, forces, and cosmic structure emerge naturally from a common physical foundation. Along the way, familiar phenomena, including wave-particle duality, quantum tunneling, electromagnetism, gravity, atomic structure, galaxy formation, and cosmic expansion, are reconsidered as interconnected expressions of the same underlying reality.
This is not a book that dismisses modern physics. On the contrary, it builds upon decades of established observations while asking whether their physical interpretation can be made simpler, more unified, and more intuitive. Throughout the book, standard scientific explanations are presented first, followed by an exploration of how a single conceptual shift may provide a common thread linking many of cosmology's enduring puzzles.
Written for scientifically curious readers, students, professionals, and anyone who enjoys exploring fundamental questions, One Step Back combines careful reasoning with an accessible, step-by-step style. Each chapter begins with an unsolved mystery, reviews the conventional explanation, and then invites readers to examine the evidence from an alternative viewpoint before drawing their own conclusions.
Whether you are a lifelong student of physics and cosmology or simply fascinated by how the universe works, One Step Back offers an opportunity to rethink familiar ideas from a fresh perspective, and perhaps discover that many of nature's greatest mysteries are not isolated problems after all, but pieces of a much larger puzzle.
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