One of the fun things about intuiting insights is testing those insights against the observations and experiences of everyday life.

Following an intuitive insight late in 1996 - glimpsing the rudiments of the Table of One and All - I wrote a book centred around it.

Like many writers prior to their discoveries, I had for some years immersed myself in studying and reflecting on a particular field of interest, in this case, quantum physics. Even though I had and have no interest in being a physicist (not since taking a higher-level physics elective while at university some 20 years earlier), I had a passionate (some might say 'obsessive') interest in the experiments, theories and implications thereof.

I had been reading one particular book that has since greatly influenced me: Nick Herbert's "Quantum Reality: Beyond the New Physics." I recently noticed on the Amazon site that it is now regarded as "a classic" and is "a must read, a must re-read" book on the subject.

One paragraph in the book was the trigger for my ah-hah experience:

Herbert was explaining how matter and energy behaves as both waves and particles (in a complementary manner, at the same time).

In a flash it all made sense: Men are particles, women are waves, roughly speaking. Men tend towards the individual particle nature: the hard-shelled ego strongly identified, the masculine tendency towards retaining their competitive indentities in "collisions" (sports, wars) and towards the extremes of behaviour (hence the preponderence of male murderers and musicians).

Women on the other hand tend towards the collective-wave nature of "merging" with communities (focused on family, relationships, feelings, communication, nurturing the group by not being extreme or disruptive etc.).

And as wtihin the quantum world – where 'things' are both waves and particles (inherently, depending on how they are observed) – so within everyday life, where men can be 'wave-natured' ( feminine, caring, community focused), or 'particle-natured' (masculine, warrior focused, 'committment phobic', selfish, competitve); women can be 'particle-natured' (masculine, competitive, objective, selfish) or 'wave-natured' (feminine, caring, sharing, selfless) and so on.

At various times since that initial ah-hah moment, I've experienced avalanches of ideas and associations, with one occasion in particular requiring me to pull over while driving so that I could write down the flood of correlations.

However like any scientist (but not as one), I'm always keen to put the Theory of One and All1 to the test, even though I intuitively feel its universal validity.

Sexing the small bits

With the benefit of the TOA, we can make sense of the behaviour of the elementary particles comprising the atoms and chemicals in our brains and bodies.

It's how the components join, or don't, that gives rise to the noticable differences in characteristics of particles, atoms, animals, people and planets.

Recently I started to look again at the field of quantum theory, and wondered how the fundamental building blocks of atoms (quarks, leptons and the like) would fit the TOA (Theory of One and All).

Once again, I was suprised by how easy things fell into place.

As it turns out, subatomic particles of matter and light (photons) can be categorised as being either Fermions or Bosons. 

Essentially, fermions are elementary or composite particles (e.g. protons, neutrons, atoms) that obey the Pauli Exclusion Principe: no two can occupy the same space (and have "part" or odd spin).

Bosons, on the other hand (e.g. photons of light), can and do occupy the same space (share wave-functions) and have "whole" integer spin. 

When fermions join together, they become fermion composites (atoms) if there is an odd number of them (i.e with partial spin), or they become bosons (if there is an even number with whole integer spin).

In brief: fermions must occupy their own space, and have partial spin.

Bosons merge and share, and have whole (integer) spin.

All of which ties in with the Theory of One and All, as summarised in the "Table: Sexing the small bits".

1. The Table of One and All was (in Be and Become) alternatively referred to as the Theory of One and All, the Toality of One and All and more recently the TAO of One and All.