Kintsugi Physics · Independent Research · 2025–2026

What broke
is not diminished.

Follow the gold seams. That is where the physics lives.

The Standard Model is extraordinary and incomplete. Spin-½ is postulated rather than derived. Electric charge is assigned rather than generated. Gravity resists quantisation. The matter-antimatter asymmetry is inserted by hand.

This site documents one independent physicist's attempt to find the geometric foundation underneath — starting from the simplest stable topological configuration a continuous field can form, and asking what emerges from it without postulate.

The answer, so far: quite a lot.

Interactive Journey — Seven Modules
01
The Two Tables
Mendeleev vs Janet · Which geometry is deeper?
Complete
02
The Frozen Universe
Live XY field simulation · Watch particles freeze from chaos
Complete
03
Kepler's Ghosts
Polyhedral quantum shells · What Kepler almost got right
In progress
04
Fleming's Geometry
Hand rules as dimensional projection · EM re-read geometrically
In progress
05
Inertia as Local Space
Resistance to acceleration · Frame dragging · Field topology
In progress
06
Prime Structures
Number theory in physical geometry · Nested prime resonances
In progress
07
The Kintsugi Synthesis
Everything assembled · The unified geometric picture
In progress
Interactive Companions
Tetrahedral Precession and Dimensional Projection
3D interactive companion to Paper IV — the precessing 3-simplex as geometric origin of charge, spin, time, and the four forces. Full Janet periodic table, dimensional projection animation, all five falsifiable predictions.
Geometric Selection Effects in Repeating Fast Radio Bursts
Interactive companion to Paper V — why some FRBs repeat and others don't. Animated waterfall plots, magnetar wind nebula geometry, same-source observer toggle, and five falsifiable predictions from environmental channelling theory.
Preprints — Five Papers · Zenodo Open Access · ORCID 0009-0004-8539-9643
Anomalous Negative Integrated Sachs-Wolfe Effect from Evolving Metric Signature Boundaries in Cosmic Voids
Henderson, I.T. (2026) · Paper I · Field Topology Theory
zenodo.19956323
Field Topology Theory: A Geometric Derivation of the Exclusion Principle and Quantum Statistics (Nopert Theorem)
Henderson, I.T. (2026) · Paper II · Field Topology Theory
zenodo.19950619
Differential Clock Rates from Spatially Varying Metric Signature: Consistency with Pantheon+ Evidence
Henderson, I.T. (2026) · Paper III · Field Topology Theory
zenodo.19956026
Tetrahedral Precession and Dimensional Projection: A Geometric Origin of Charge, Spin, Time, and the Four Forces
Henderson, I.T. (2026) · Paper IV · Field Topology Theory
zenodo.19890011
Geometric Selection Effects in Repeating Fast Radio Bursts: Environmental Channelling Through Anisotropic Magnetar Wind Nebulae
Henderson, I.T. (2026) · Paper V · Field Topology Theory
zenodo.19889593
About

I am a registered nurse and ophthalmic practitioner working independently on the geometric foundations of physics. I think in topological patterns rather than formal proofs. In September 2025 I had the intuition that the minimum stable configuration of a continuous spacetime field is a precessing tetrahedron — and that from it, without additional postulates, you can derive spin-½, electric charge, matter-antimatter asymmetry, and the rate of local time.

I have been developing that intuition into rigorous preprints, interactive web modules, and a book manuscript since then. This site is the open companion — the place where the geometry becomes visible to anyone.

The kintsugi metaphor is not decoration. Physics has cracks. The gold is in the cracks. That is where the new theories enter.

ORCID 0009-0004-8539-9643