Universe Within makes the case that the human brain is a physical model of the universe because of structural and dynamical similarities shared between the two systems based on the pictures emerging out of neuroscience and physics, respectively. The relationship between the human brain and the universe revealed by Melvin A. Felton, Jr. might be the missing principle that leads to the theory of everything.

Melvin Felton attended two of the top historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in America, Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA (B.S. Mathematics, 2000), and Hampton University in Hampton, VA (M.S. Physics, 2003). From 2003 to present, Melvin has been employed as a physicist at a US national science laboratory. Much of Melvin's professional research has concerned remote sensing of the lower atmosphere. Since 2009, Melvin has utilized his personal time to research and write Universe Within: The Surprising Way the Human Brain Models the Universe. Beginning in 2015, Melvin branched out professionally and began conducting research in the fields of cybernetics and computational neuroscience. Melvin has since attended and presented his research at international conferences for computational neuroscience--Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC), and the Annual Computational Neuroscience Meetings (CNS). Melvin has also published his recent research in the peer-reviewed journal Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience.