I have been actively researching in the spheres of Relativity, quantum physics, and cosmology for about thirty years. For nearly ten years, I have been taking advantage of the offerings of The Teaching Company, intensively assimilating university level material, mostly on the subjects of philosophy and history. My father was a pharmacist whose hobby was science, especially astronomy, and who regularly read Scientific American magazine. Many evenings we were to be found in our backyard looking through his telescope. My maternal grandfather was an attorney who had been a mathematics professor; h...