With this book, the author fulfills a long-held desire to make the principles and foundations of wave mechanics (quantum mechanics) accessible to a broad readership in relation to matter and its building blocks. The author believes that only this knowledge and its associated consequences provide the necessary prerequisites for meaningful and effective contemplation of questions regarding human existence and behavior. The implications of this knowledge therefore directly influence all areas of human insight and lead to binding life principles that ultimately stem from wave mechanical findings. The book begins almost without prerequisites, and the author repeatedly addresses the reader in a casual style, encouraging them to navigate this ultimately complex and unusual subject.