There is a common thought experiment that is used to help explain Einstein’s theory. Imagine a space ship that is accelerating through space at 32 feet per second squared. A space man is standing on the deck. The acceleration holds him to the floor just exactly like Earth’s gravity. If he drops a ball, it falls to the floor and bounces back up just like it would on Earth.

     The spaceship has a window, and light from a star is shining through the window into the interior of the spaceship. Light travels at 186,000 miles per second, and in the time it takes the light to travel from the window to the opposite wall of the spaceship, the space ship has increased in velocity, thus making the light appear to bend from the perspective of the spaceman who is accelerating along with his spaceship.

     Since acceleration and gravitation are mathematically equivalent, Einstein predicted that gravity would bend light. If two spaceships are accelerating through space at 32ft/second/second on unparallel lines, any interaction between them would take place as if they were in the Earth’s gravitational field.

     Gravitation is measured in the same terms as rates of acceleration, and acceleration is commonly measured in comparison to Earth’s gravity. Earth’s Gravity is called 1 G for "G" forces. When a jet fighter is accelerating or changing direction, it is said to be subjected to "G" forces. 5 G’s of acceleration would be equivalent to 5 times the force of Earth’s gravity. A 200 pound man would weigh 1000 pounds under 5 G’s of acceleration.

     Einstein’s theory worked better than Newton’s, but there are still some flaws. Einstein spent the last years of his life trying to find the answer. He was unsuccessful. He died in 1955. What he was searching for has been called by various names such as "unified field theory," "the theory of everything," "the unification theory," and "quantum gravity." I call it the "Secret of the Universe," and that is what this book is about.

     Today’s scientists have what they call the "Standard Model" of the Universe. They believe that there are four basic forces in nature: the "strong nuclear force," the "weak nuclear force," "electro-magnetic force," and "gravity." The belief is that these four forces are all aspects of one universal force, and to fully understand the Universe they must find a way to unify these four known forces. The weak nuclear force and electro-magnetic force have already been unified.

     All scientists agree that there is something not right about the Standard Model, but nobody has figured out what it is yet. They don’t have anything to replace it, and it does seem to work in most cases.

     In the last 50 years, our government has spent billions and billions and billions of our tax dollars so scientists can do experiments to try to reconcile the flaws in the Standard Model. They coined a phrase "dark matter" or "missing matter." It seems that the distant galaxies are spinning around so fast that according to the laws of gravitation, they should fly apart unless they contain 10 times the amount of matter that we can detect. The result is that a portion of our nation’s resources are spent trying to detect invisible particles that act like they don’t exist.