Origins

July 2025

SolveTheUniverse began on February 16, 2009, with a companion wiki launched the next day. The site’s founding line, from that earliest version, still holds:

One must accept infinity in order to understand the workings of the universe. Quantum Theory is approximate, the universe is exact.

The original framing was simple: extraordinary ideas come from ordinary individuals, and most good ideas die unspoken because people don’t have anywhere to put them. The site was originally built as an open collaborative space around that premise; Purpose & Goals explains why it’s since narrowed to presenting one specific body of work instead.

Between 2011 and 2016, that early thinking developed on a blog: working posts on aether, infinity, and the basic shape of what would become Pressure-Based Theory. The companion wiki also picked up years of spam-bot editing on its open, freely-editable pages — unrelated to Matthew’s own writing, and not live today, but part of why the domain’s history is more complicated than a single blog would suggest.

Then, in Matthew’s own words, from a 2025 post announcing the site’s return:

After starting this site, having it hacked, losing much of what was presented, being saved by Jesus Christ, getting involved in evangelism, moving to a new city, building a family, working, and seeing life unfold, I now have some time again to update this site.

Everything in Papers and Articles is the result of that return — the current, active body of work, developed mostly across fall 2025 into early 2026.

2026: a lock, and a move off Blogger. In July 2026, Google locked the Blogger blog this content had been living on, citing a violation of Blogger’s Spam Policy. Matthew requested a review the same day. Rather than wait on that outcome, the decision was made to move off Blogger entirely and rebuild independently — this site is the result. The domain itself was kept and pointed here; nothing was abandoned.

The most likely explanation isn’t anything in the physics content itself. This domain’s history includes the old wiki mentioned above, which picked up years of spam-bot editing on its open, freely-editable pages. Google’s spam classifiers can weigh a domain’s full history, not just the one page being viewed — so an old, long-dormant problem may have triggered a flag on content that had nothing to do with it. That’s a plausible explanation, not a confirmed one.

Either way, every page of legitimate content had already been independently recovered and preserved before this rebuild began, so nothing here depended on Google’s review outcome.

This page exists to preserve where the idea came from, not to compete with where it’s going.