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13.8-billion years ago, the universe began with the Big Bang. At first, all of the energy and spacetime in the universe was contained within an infinitely dense point (i.e. a singularity). Immediately, space inflated by a factor of at least 1026 in a fraction of a second (between 10−32 and 10−36 seconds), and then it slowed down drastically, but 7.7-billion years later, the expansion began accelerating again due to a mysterious dark energy. There are four fundamental forces: the strong force (which is carried by the gluon), the weak force (which is carried by the W and Z bosons), electromagnetism (which is carried by the photon), and gravity (which is mediated by the Higgs Boson and hypothetical gravitons). Both matter and antimatter were created in equal quantities, but, after the matter and antimatter annihilated each other, for every billion matter-antimatter particle pairs, one matter particle remained, leaving us with all the matter we have now. On the smallest scales, things are governed by tiny, vibrating strings and quantum mechanics, where matter is both a wave and a particle acting based on probability waves and observations, potentially branching into many separate universes. Furthermore, the universe is filled with clusters of invisible, massive particles, called dark matter, that only react with normal matter through gravity. In fact, normal matter makes up only 5% of the universe – the remaining 95% is comprised of roughly 27% dark matter and 68% dark energy. When a star collapses and its matter gathers together tightly enough, it creates a black hole which has infinite density. Time is relative rather than absolute and it is caused by the increase of entropy. Now, what if I told you that everything you’ve just read so far in that traditional narrative is not true? Well, it’s not true, and that’s exactly what I’m going to argue for in Universe of Light. Instead, all things, including space itself, are the result of the motion and location of a single substance comprised of electromagnetic waves (i.e., light) forming a field within and separate from the spatial dimensions. Waves in this field spiral to form vortexes, which are the true forms of particles, also giving them their wave-like properties and the reason why nothing travels faster than the speed of light. Space (i.e., the field objects travel through), being made of this physical substance, gathers as objects belonging to the same body as space are brought together. The waves, which particles are made of, travel toward the densest region in space – that being objects, which are collections of space – resulting in the phenomena of gravity. Time is simply a measure of the position of waves within the dimensions. Space and the light waves traveling through it are not stretching outward as the universe expands, but, rather, they are stretching toward the individual galaxies, and so the universe is not expanding, nor has it ever expanded, but, rather, began evenly spread out. Space being different densities within the spatial dimensions accounts for the irregular motions of objects within galaxies. Black holes are the center of active galactic vortexes. There are no separate forces or physically separate objects, making this a “theory of everything.” The "theory of everything" is the fundamental framework of physics which explains and links all physical phenomena, including particles, light, gravity, and possibly even time. Currently, finding such a theory is considered perhaps the greatest unsolved problem in physics. Universe of Light is an attempt at solving the theory of everything, as well as many more of the biggest mysteries in physics, using explanations which differ from the mainstream understanding but still appear to agree with experimentation. Though having some preexisting familiarity with the topics would help, the proposed hypotheses are described mostly in layman's terms and without mathematics so that it may be understood even by those lacking a background in physics. Aside from Universe of Light being an explanation for physical processes, some additional reasons to believe in its validity include its simplicity (which almost can't get any simpler), it leaves very few (possibly zero) unexplained assumptions (reference Occam's Razor), the fact that it's easy to understand (at least when paired with visual imagery), it answers (or leads to the answer to) most of the major open questions in physics, it answers more questions than it creates, and it appears intuitively true. Its explanatory powers should make it the superior alternative to mainstream explanations.