DR MANJIR Samanta-Laughton describes an Isaac Newton moment that led to her own revelation, one that could revolutionise modern thinking in physics, just as much as the 17th-century genius did in his own day.

She was sitting on the low branch of an oak tree, near her home in Buxton, Derbyshire, with her feet dangling and trying to feel the Earth's rotation when, in just a few seconds, "all the pieces of information I had been studying suddenly fitted together into a framework that is elegant and simple but also allows for infinite, emergent complexity".

Proverbially at least, Newton had an apple fall on his head and thought of gravity: Manjir had come up with what she calls the Black Hole Principle.

It's a a new "theory of everything" that has been called "the biggest scientific revolution since Einstein" and is the subject of her new book Punk Science.

Now the author is the first to admit that her scientific training was as a medical doctor, not in physics. Her mother Reuka and father Kamal are both retired doctors living in Denby Dale. Manjir was a pupil at Mountjoy House Prep School in Huddersfield and Wakefield Girls' Grammar School before going on to train at the Royal Free Hospital in London.

It was while working as a doctor that she says she realised that the use of energy medicine could greatly benefit patients within the orthodox system.

But one of the main barriers to its use was the lack of scientific explanation for how it worked.

On further investigation, Manjir found that developments in modern physics have direct parallels with energy medicine. She was a convert to the idea of linking separate areas of science.

Why the Black Hole Principle? Because in the 1970s US professor William Tiller in considering black holes came up with the idea of a mirror universe, separated from our world by a light barrier.

With this theory Manjir says there may be black holes as small as atoms and is convinced that she can link high-energy physics and ancient mystical wisdom.

She knows that this could be decried as heresy and pseudo-science but she argues that the time is right for a change in our way of thinking and the next big discovery.

Science as we know it today has only existed for a few centuries, she argues. Originally there was no separation between science, philosophy and mysticism.

With her new theory, she says, she can explain much that is today inexplicable, like aliens, angels, ghostly apparitions, distant healing, psychic mediums and more.

It is, as she says, a very radical theory but she insists that it is testable and where her predictions have been tested they have proved to be correct.

In a reply to Dr Stephen Hawkings and his work on black holes, Dr Samanta-Laughton has subtitled her book Inside The Mind of God.

Her work has already been reviewed in papers like the Sunday Express and Guardian and in January she is being interviewed on Channel 4.

* Punk Science. Dr Manjir Samanta-Laughton/O Books. £12.99

* Energy medicine is a branch of complementary and alternative medicine.

* Practitioners believe that illnesses result fom disturbance of the biofield.

* More than 2,000 years ago Asian practitioners postulated that the flow and balance of life energies are necessary for maintaining health and described tools to restore them.

* Herbal medicine, acupuncture, acupressure and cupping, for example, are all believed to act by correcting imbalances in the internal biofield.