Purpose & Goals

January 2009

Solve the Universe was created by Matthew Foutch in 2009, and picked back up in 2025 after a long gap. The core belief behind it hasn’t changed: extraordinary ideas can come from people without formal credentials, and the ones that go unspoken usually just die unspoken.

Physics has real gaps — dark matter, dark energy, quantum gravity, and more (see Gaps in Science). Pressure-Based Theory is one attempt at a few of them, built without a research team or institutional backing, refined with AI assistance, and published openly so it can be checked rather than taken on faith.

This site presents that work. It isn’t a forum for submitting other ideas, and there’s no open call for contributors — just one person’s model, laid out plainly, open to scrutiny.

Since 2026-07-22 the site also maintains a physics catalog classifying claims — here and elsewhere in physics — as proven, generally accepted but unproven, credentialed-but-untested, genuinely unknown, fringe, or historically disproven. Pressure-Based Theory is filed under fringe, stated plainly rather than left for a reader to infer. The goal isn’t to win an argument for PBT specifically — it’s to make clear, in one place, what’s actually established in physics and what isn’t, including this site’s own work.

Questions, corrections, or math checks: mwfoutch@gmail.com