Presently, gravitation, as described by General Relativity (GR) does not quite "fit" with Quantum Theory and this book shows how a different view of the nature of time might help to resolve the conflicts between the two. The pursuit of a quantum theory of gravity that fits all scales from the Planck scale to the cosmic scale is ongoing, but there are difficulties in constructing such a theory from the ground up based on a combination of Quantum Mechanics (QM) and General Relativity. Attempts to combine these two theories have led to dubious results and we are at an impasse. Doubt is creeping in about the validity of General Relativity but it is unlikely that we will identify any errors in our understanding of it purely from mathematical analyses since the errors are in the philosophy, not the mathematics. Yet, we may never succeed in developing a "Theory of Everything" if we do not attack this problem from both ends of the scale. This book makes the attempt, firstly from the viewpoint of the macroscopic (macro) scale and finally by analyzing the nature of space and time at the Planck scale.We arrive at an intuitive view of reality itself which is both novel and surprising and which explains many present day conundrums in physics.
The resulting conclusions as to the nature of our world are shocking, exciting yet beguiling and in some instances, compelling. The author invites you to consider this challenge to mainstream thinking. If you wish to revert to the traditional view after reading this you are, of course, at liberty to do so, but you will be forever changed by the experience.
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Ken Hughes is a professionally qualified Mechanical Engineer, a native citizen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, born in Denton, Lancashire, England in 1947 during the period of austerity immediately after the Second World War. He is born and bred of northern stock and inherits the down to earth attitudes typical of that region. As a child, he played in the rubble that was the city of Portsmouth and throughout his life has borne witness to the rebuilding and re growth of the UK. He was educated in the local schools and colleges and attended the University of Portsmouth where he read Mechanical Engineering. He has spent the majority of his career in the process plant design and construction industry, mainly within the UK, but with some time spent in the USA in the 1980s and more recently on continental Europe as a freelance Engineering Consultant. He has always had a marked interest in physics, astronomy and cosmology and a fascination for gravity. Having now retired he has found the time, the energy and the motivation to finally clarify these outstanding issues in science that have been troubling him over the years.
CONTENTS PREFACE...XI INTRODUCTION...XIV 1. SOME HISTORICAL SCIENTIFIC DEVELOPMENTS...1 The Earth at the center of the universe...2 The flat Earth...5 The Aether...6 Occam's Razor...8 So what can we learn from history?...9 2. SOME FLAWS IN PRESENT DAY SCIENCE...11 The phenomenon of gravitation...11 The phenomenon of inertia...18 The bending of electromagnetic radiation in a gravitational field...18 The conservation of energy...20 3. SPACE-TIME...22 Space, the vacuum and the void...28 Space-time...34 Time...43 Time dilation and its causes...48 Motion induced time dilation (inertial time dilation)...48 Mass induced time dilation...52 Inertial time dilation - Special Relativity...56 Inertial time dilation - Proof...62 Acceleration due to time dilation...71 Twin paradox...84 4. NEWTONIAN GRAVITATION...90 The language of science - mathematics...90 Cumulative gravitation...95 The equivalence of time dilation and gravitation...99 Gravitational shielding...101 Time dilation on the atomic scale...103 Cumulative time dilation...106 The link between time dilation and gravitation...113 5. THE MATHEMATICS OF NEWTONIAN GRAVITATION...121 The mathematical challenge...121 The mathematics...122 Causality...133 Presentation...137 Testing the mathematics...138 6. STRONG GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS...143 General Relativity...144 7. SOME IMPLICATIONS FROM THE NEW THEORY...155 Newton's gravitational "force"...155 Newton's First Law...156 Energy conservation...157 Orbital motion and the hammer and feather...160 Gravitational and inertial mass...161 The bending of light in a gravitational field...162 Some rules about time...167 The big bang or the slow temporal eruption?...169 The Hubble constant...174 Dark energy...174 8. TESTING THE THEORY...177 Transverse shift...177 The preferred reference frame...178 9. THE BINARY UNIVERSE...183 Quantized time...185 The wave form of time...188 Inertial time dilation...198 Travelling through the wave...203 Travelling through the quanta...209 The binary universe...215 The two parts...226 Invariance of the "Quantum Couple"...228 A Stable Wave...229 Antimatter...229 Energy Conservation in the Binary pair...231 The invariance of the speed of light?...232 The road to Quantum Gravity...237 Inertia...243 Perspective...248 Uncertainty...248 Length contraction and the end of the universe...250 The cause or the outcome?...251 Muons again...251 Temporal Pauli Exclusion...256 Quantum Entanglement...257 Electromagnetism...261 Time Runs Backwards?...262 Consciousness...263 Causality...264 Feet on the Ground Please!...265 The Multiverse...266 Super Duper Pooper Symmetry...267 A Very Speculative View of Quantum Field Theory...269 The Time Rate Field...271 And Finally - the Beauty Contest!...274 10. THE CASE FOR THE BINARY UNIVERSE...276 ABOUT THE AUTHOR...293 INDEX...294
