The principle component of the universe is a sea of virtual particle pairs often called the zero-point field (ZPF). The amount of zero-point energy (ZPE) present at any instant is many times the energy locked in massive objects like earth, or stars.  While the ZPF has long been ignored, normalized out of equations, and replaced by quantum electromechanical models, the influence the ZPF has over everything in the universe is profound. ZPE is not a new idea. Max Plank theorized of its existence over 90 years ago, and since then it's existence is acknowledged by every serious physicist.

Why then are ZPF theories laughed at in some circles?Because many believe that ZPF theories are like the aether theories of last century that were experimentally discredited. What these people have failed to grasp is that ZPF or aether were not discredited by those experiments, the idea of a fundamental coordinate rest frame was! The ZPF has no coordinates. It is not flat. It is not curved. It is a sea of particle pairs with random motion in every direction at every velocity relative to whatever rest frame we chose to lay on top of it for our own purposes.

So, what is the new physics? It is not, as some people would have you believe, a collection of theories, such as superstring theories, with little or no fundamental basis in experiments. It is a set of theories that comes about when we consider that the ZPF is composed of pairs of charged particles, not unlike virtual electron-positron pairs. Through much of this century ZPE theories were calculated based on the major component being virtual photon pairs, without charge. But, when we consider the implications of a polarizable vacuum many new possibilities open up. Electric fields appear to be linear arrangements of virtual pairs of charged particles, while magnetic fields can be described as rotating virtual particle pairs acting as dipoles. The photon, which has long been known to behave as if it where an electron-positron pair of half the photons wavelength, can truly be described as a series of  virtual electron-positron like pairs of  particles accompanied by a wave front of like particles that align themselves with the photon's electric and magnetic fields. For gravity, we have the theory of Sakharov, which incorporates ZPE pressure on masssive objects as the root cause and media.

The New Physics is a polarizable vacuum model of the universe that can be used to describe and unify the major forces while providing us with a long sought after medium in which the the forces can propagate. It can be used to solve the missing mass problem, the recently discovered accelerated expansion of the universe problem, even the origin of the earth's magnetic field problem that has puzzled scientists for generations, and many more. Does it sound too good to be true? Maybe, but read my book and decide for yourselves.