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Michael K. Baines spent 39 years in aerospace engineering, where every piece of work is checked several times before anyone flies on it. Over that time he moved from refrigeration systems to aircraft systems. At Boeing he taught Designer Development, training designers and engineers in Boeing’s parts systems, and designed a test parachute system for the F-22. He designed engines at Honeywell, worked on business jets for Dassault Falcon Jet and Gulfstream, spent ten years at Bombardier on the Global business jets and the clean-sheet C Series regional jet, and worked as a structural flight test engineer on the certification program for Mitsubishi’s regional jet. He later taught English at Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat University in Thailand, and is a certified PADI diving instructor.

He now brings the same habit, checking a claim before trusting it, to larger questions. A Quest for The Big TOE, offered on the honor system, sets out an information-first approach to physics as testable predictions. He founded the Ic² Research Institute, which registers predictions before the data arrive and publishes every result. His forthcoming new edition of Rediscovering Oneness asks what the evidence actually says about human connection, keeping what holds and setting aside what does not.