quantum-mechanics
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Mass of Nows: A Geometric Theory of Inertia and Gravity Abstract. We propose that inertial and gravitational mass arise from a single geometric mechanism: the resistance a particle encounters when its worldline is forced to cross successive “now-slices” of spacetime. These slices are required by the relativity of simultaneity. A particle at rest crosses one…
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Chapter Three Maxwell and theLuminferous Aether In 1847 a sixteen year old boy name James Clerk Maxwell was taken to see what was considered one of the “scientific wonders” of the age. It was a special crystal from Iceland that had been cut into a prism. The prism acted as any other prism would, letting…
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Introduction Three Quarters of Reality Since 1905 with the publication of Albert Einstein’s “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies” aka Special Relativity, the world has known that unlike our sensory experience of living in three dimensions, we in fact live in a four dimensional universe which Einstein labeled “Space-Time.” Even the general public is pretty…
