Dustin Lee

Galactic Rotation as the Master Shear Field

The galactic disk is a shear machine. Differential rotation — the fact that inner orbits complete faster than outer orbits — imposes a persistent, large-scale velocity gradient across the entire interstellar medium. That gradient is not background noise. It is the dominant organi...

Neutrinos as Geometry Fragments

Neutrinos are not particles in any conventional sense. They don't have charge. They barely have mass. They pass through an entire light-year of lead with less than even odds of being stopped. Standard physics acknowledges all of this and then responds by giving them a spot in the...

Chemical Reaction Field Dynamics

Chemistry as taught in most curricula is a language of nouns: molecules, bonds, orbitals, electrons. It describes what exists at the beginning and end of a reaction with impressive precision, and it almost entirely skips what actually happens in between. The transition from react...

Quantum Field Architecture

The universe operates as a dynamic geometric substrate, a continuous, tension-bearing field whose stable and metastable configurations produce every particle, force, and interaction catalogued by modern physics. All quantum phenomena historically labeled "weird," "probabilistic,"...

Quantum Mechanics as Substrate Vibration

Standard quantum mechanics works. Its predictions are accurate to more decimal places than almost any other physical theory, and the mathematical formalism, Hilbert spaces, operators, Born rule, Schrödinger evolution, is clean and internally consistent. The problem is not the mat...

The Strong and Weak Forces

Unified Substrate Theory (UST) proposes that the universe is a continuous, tension-bearing, topologically rich medium, a substrate, and that all particles, forces, and interactions are mechanical behaviors of this medium. This paper develops a full UST account of the strong and w...