The Ockham Brief - Cosmology, Quarks, and High Energy Physics. A pair-production scenario is proposed in which a primordial gluon ensemble undergoes a transformation into heavy quarks, resulting in both stable and unstable quark complexes. The mixture of stable and unstable quark complexes leads to a new coherent and parsimonious model for the big band and the production of Regular Matter and Dark Matter. The author, Barry Pierce Shafer, served at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a Technical Staff Member and Program Manager for 35 years. 68 pgs. 6x9. Paperback ISBN-10: 0-89540-461-3, ISBN-13: 978-0-89540-461-9. $15.00