Is this how scientific discoveries usually begin?
Often, yes, and this proposed theory sits at the beginning of that path rather than at the end of it. Conceptual synthesis under a new assumption is how discoveries have been made, and every law is written in borrowed mathematics; recognition arrives with independent empirical testing, and no outside laboratory has tested this one.
Conceptual synthesis under a new assumption is how discoveries have been made, and every law is written in borrowed mathematics. Recognition arrives with independent empirical testing, not with the synthesis. This programme's synthesis is stated and dated, 8 December 2024, its deciding studies are written, dated and prepared as draft registrations awaiting human submission, and its own first measurements are published with their intervals and their corrections. No outside laboratory has run a test of it.
The illustrations are ordinary history. Darwin joined geology to Malthus and reached natural selection. Newton joined Kepler's sky to Galileo's earth. The relativity papers took equations already written by Lorentz and Poincare and joined them to Maxwell under a new assumption about light. Those are illustrations of a standard, never a comparison with this work, and no claim of that kind is made anywhere on this site.
The site names the same shape in its own words and refuses the flattery in the same breath. Relativity was published in 1915 and passed its first decisive test in 1919. Continental drift waited from 1912 until the plate-tectonic evidence of the 1960s. The Higgs field was proposed in 1964 and observed in 2012. Kind, not standing: those theories are confirmed by a century of evidence, and this one is stated, dated and unproven.
Those are also the survivors of a category that mostly dies at its first decisive test, and naming that test in advance is what membership costs. The record here follows the order deliberately, either way it goes: claim first, dated; instruments built; trials drafted; nothing graded proven until it is.
So the fair sentence is a position rather than a verdict. The synthesis is stated and dated. The instruments exist and have produced measurements with intervals. The corrections are published, including one against the programme's best number. The outside test has not been run, and until it is, that is exactly where this stands.