I am the son of two physicists and one myself. This theory first appeared on the physics preprint site ArXiv as Elastic Nanocomputation in an Ideal Brain. The theory, in the manner of the still-mythical physics "Theory of Everything," aspires to accommodate (if not predict and explain in detail) every aspect of its subject smoothly. To do so, this theory resorts to simplifications as extreme as "spherical cows" (e.g. "cylindrical torsos"). After all, smooth simplifications, like splines, compress information efficiently, whether in cartoons or in brains.

This section represents work done with Criscillia Benford. It re-explains several well-known principles from computer science, physics, and engineering to emphasize their natural coherence and self-consistency. The most basic axioms come first. The links can be read in order as a coherent unfolding of the biophysical theory.