What about the ACT and SAT? Is this peer-reviewed and to be widely accepted?

The Universal Model has only been published since October of 2016 and is in the process of expanding out to the world. And as you have said, this work is outside of the norm and many discoveries found in the UM go in contrast with those of the scientific establishment. The hope is that it is only a matter of time until these new truths become part of the everyday learning for students around the world.

To answer your questions I suggest you read question 9 on the Q&A page of the website https://universalmodel.com/about/qa/. There you will understand why the UM is not published in a journal.

For a completely different idea… I recently visited Meteor Crater in Arizona, and the gift shop handed me a free packet (fridge magnet, DVD, etc.) for filling out a line on a form giving some basic info about our home school (name, general location, grade levels taught, etc.). Many others had filled out the form before me, and under “grade levels” they had put “college”.

I attended BYU, and I loved the feeling of being there, and I loved several of the classes I took. But as my wife and I have studied and learned more and more about home schooling (especially the Thomas Jefferson Education method), I’ve become less and less enamored with university style of educating (for myself personally–but we’re all different, so for other people, I’m sure it’s exactly what they need and love). Instead, I’ve undertaken my own “love of learning” and “scholar phase” by reading voraciously everything I can get my hands on (mostly non-fiction about the Constitution, America as the Promised Land, proper role of government, LDS Church History, and linguistics, all of which is odd considering my BS and MS in Computer Science). Most of what I learned for my career could easily have been picked up through books and online, and the rest–the wisdom versus just the knowledge–could have come through one good mentor.

I know in this country in the last century or so we’ve really turned the focus away from mentors and apprenticeships and toward university degrees, but that isn’t the only (or necessarily the best) way. I’ve applied for a lot of different jobs over the decade and a half that I’ve been working as a software engineer, and almost all the job applications always indicate a college degree OR equivalent experience (Intel is the one exception–they’re really big on PhDs for some reason), and no one has ever cared or asked on the job what degrees (if any) I have–they just care that I can demonstrate my mastery of the required skills.

Anyway, just some food for though, hopefully. I know sometimes we judge others who don’t have an official diploma/degree, but it’s just a piece of paper.

Again, the UM has always expected this exact response from the scientific community. They will rigorously defend their beliefs, but belief will always fail when put to the test:

Q11: Are people going to really believe in the UM?
A: True science is not about opinion. It is about demonstrable fact that only comes from empirical observation.

Q9: Why is the Universal Model not written and published from within the scientific establishment?
A: Today, most new scientific theories and papers submitted through the scientific establishment undergo a rigorous review process where establishment-trained peers decide whether the content is worthy and within the confined views of their respective field. In the past, many large changes in science through new discovery have not come from within the scientific establishment, but from individuals that used an outside perspective. New theories and papers within the establishment are typically complicated, built on old theories and written to the well-schooled peer groups that continue to believe in the old theories. The Universal Model is not about complicated theories; it is about simple models that demonstrate new natural laws, which are observable in nature. This method of science is a return to the original way scientific inquiry and study was conducted centuries ago.

Q10: How big of an impact will the UM have on the scientific world and the public?
A: Scientific truth that does not come from a well respected source always takes time for many of those in science circles to accept. History has shown us that sometimes science cannot accept the truth for many years until the older scientists pass. Younger investigators have always been more open to new ideas and evidences. The public is an entirely different matter. Whereas, common sense has been ‘thrown out’ of many establishment scientists’ minds today, most alternative scientists and the public recognize error when they see it and do not accept theories that have not been proven with empirical fact. Keeping this in mind, the UM should eventually have an extremely large impact on society and the scientific establishment and cause a revolution in science. This is something that no one living has experienced and is hard for us to understand until it happens.