1: Introduction: Complementarity as a Principle

The ruminations in the preface show just a smattering of the applicability of complementarity. Clearly the subject is immense: the title of this monograph alone would indicate that! So, I hope you’re not too disappointed when I tell you that this book is not primarily about the things I mentioned above. Rather, it emphasizes something of a completely different nature but every bit as important if you believe the nature of the physical world is important. It’s mostly about fundamental physics with a very important early foray into elementary biochemistry, DNA, no less. Then it reintroduces what I have called an Alternative Model of the Elementary Particles, alternative, that is to the well-known, even iconic Standard model. That model was originally developed in a series of papers published in the journal JKTR (Avrin 2005, 2008, 2011, 2012a), then, as more or less collected in the journal Symmetry (Avrin 2012b), and finally, in the book alluded to above (Avrin 2015)…