Wisp Unification Theory - Index A-Z

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aberration, stellar, 100–101
absolute frames, 35, 76, 127–130, 132, 151–154
> local absolute frames, 35
absolute measurements, 80
> in stationary and moving frame S, 83–84
> in moving frame S’, 85
> of light’s relative speed, 82, 86
> of light’s speed, 76
absolute simultaneity of events, 82, 105–107
absolute space, 102
absolute time, 2, 102
accelerating subatomic particles, 109
age of the universe, 161, 164
Anderson, John, 64
antimatter, 18, 163
antiwisp, 26
atomic clock, 8, 80
atoms, 1
automata, 24, 27

background radiation, cosmic, 164
bending of light, 42, 59
big bang, 18, 161, 165
> evidence for, 164–165
> ultra-supermassive black hole, 163, 166–167
> wisp big bang theory, 164
big crunch, 167
black-body radiation, 3
black holes, 161–163
> and general relativity, 161
> centre of a black hole, 163
> small,163
> supermassive, 163, 166
> ultra-supermassive, 161, 163–164, 167
> what are they? 161
Boeing, 62–63
bosons, 5–6
Bradley, James, 100

Cantor, Georg, 21
CERN, 4
clocks:
> atomic, 8, 80
> body, 81
> light-pulse, 89
> mechanical/biological, 94–95
> run slow, 78
COBE, 164
collisions, 27–28, 151–154
conservation of charge, 159–160
> created or destroyed, 159
> quarks in pairs, 160
conservation of momentum, 151–154
conservative field, 45
coordinate transformations, see wisp transformations
cosmic microwave background radiation, 164
cosmological principle, 161
curvature, 49, 50
> measurement of the arc of a circle, 49
> of space–time, 41–43
> of wisp space, 26, 39, 43–49, 52, 55–56

dark matter, 167
de Broglie waves, 32
de Broglie, Louis, 32
decelerating subatomic particles, 111
Democritus, 1
Descartes, René, 29
dilation and gamma factors, 79–80, 89
> force, 80, 91
> jiggle, 80, 92–93
> time, 8, 80
> general gamma factor equation, 90
> in light-pulse clock, 89
Dirac, Paul, 3, 18
Doppler effect of light, 137,
> approaching observer, 144
> approaching source, 145
> general motion: observer and source moving, 147
> approaching a stationary source, 146
> receding from a stationary source, 142–143
> source moving and observer stationary, 146
> testing a moving observer’s transverse Doppler effect, 143
> transverse – moving source, 140
> transverse experiments, 141
> transverse observer motion, 139
> transverse source motion, 141
> wisp’s general Doppler equation, 148
Doppler effect, sound, 137
Doppler effect, water waves, 137

E=mc^2, 4, 108, 155–157
> derivation of formula, 156
Earth’s:
> absolute and relative times, 125
> mass, 40
> speed through wisp space, 148, 170
Eddington, Arthur, 42
Einstein, Albert, 4, 7– 8, 33, 39, 41–43, 59, 67, 75, 82, 90, 129
elastic collision, 151–154
electric:
> charge 17, 26, 29, 69–70, 72
>> asymmetry/twist, 17, 69–70, 159
>> created or destroyed, 159
>> quarks in pairs, 160
> field, 127
> force, 39–40, 69
electrodynamics of moving bodies, 127
electromagnetic force, 39–40, 69–72, 129–133
> force measurements in different frames, 129
> in absolute frame S, 129
> in moving frame S’, 130
> on a wire moving through wisp space, 133
electromagnetic waves, 29, 31–32, 72–73
emptiness, xiii, 14, 25–26, 28, 30, 52
energy: kinetic, rest, total, 105–157
energy into mass, 158
EPR paradox, 33
equivalence of mass and energy, 155–159
equivalence principle, 41, 59
ether, xiii, 8–9, 25–26, 29–30, 50, 100, 129, 137
> demise of, 8, 30, 79, 98
> early theories, 29–30
>> Descartes, 29
>> Maxwell, 29
>> Thomson, 30
> insufficient proof, 30
> re-established, 135
> wisp space, xiii, 9
ether drag, 98
events, 7, 82
> absolute simultaneity, 82, 105
> simultaneity, 7
> in special relativity, 82
expansion of wisp space, 164–165, 167

face-centred cubic lattice, 14–15
faster than light, 31, 33, 55, 164–165
Fermilab, 18
fermions, 5–6
Feynman, Richard, 4
Fizeau, Armand, 101, 177
Fizeau’s experiment, 101, 177
flat space, 14, 16, 25, 44
flat wisp space, 45, 47–48
force transmits through a medium, xiii, 11, 29–30
force-device in absolute frame S, 115
force-device moving in frame S, 117
force-device with respect to frame S’, 121
forces on accelerating particles, 110
four-dimensional space, 49
fourier series, 34
fractals, xiii, 3, 19, 21–24, see also matter-fractals
> binary tree, 23–24
> cantor dust, 21–22
> geometric series, 21, 24
> limit process, 21–24
Fresnel, Augustin, 101, 177
full space, 25
fundamental particles, 4, 5, see also matter-fractals
> fields, 3
> wisps, xiii, 26

galaxy formation, 166
> zero-state space fragments, 166
galilean relativity, 102–103
Gell-Mann, Murray, 18
general theory of relativity 7, 40– 43, 62, 66–67
> tests for, 42
geodesic lines, 41
gravitation, 7, 9, 11, 15, 18, 25–26, 30, 39–53, 61, 64
> the cause of, 11, 26, 39, 43–53, 64
>> Einstein’s views, 39, 41, 67
>> Newton’s views, 39,50, 67
>> quantum theory and string theory, 42
>> wisp theory, 50–53
> deceleration force, 64–66
> propulsion devices, 62
> weakest force, 39
gravitational acceleration, 55
gravitational and inertial mass, 41
gravitational constant:
> Newton’s, 40
> wisp’s, 57
gravitational waves, 32
gravitons, 9, 11, 42–43, 64
Gravity Probe B, 66
Green, Michael, 6
Gross, David, 6
Guth, Alan, 165

Hawking radiation, 163
Hawking, Stephen, 163
Higgs boson, 4
Hooke’s law, 47
Hubble constant, 165
Hubble, Edwin, 165

illusion effect of light, 91, 103, 106
incompatible theories:
> general relativity, 8–9
> quantum theory, 8–9
inelastic collision, 158–159
inflation, 165
Institute of Physics, 60
intermediate-state space, 26
invariance of distance, 105
inverse square law, 43, 47–49
> model of, 47–49
inverse transformations, see wisp transformations

jets, 162
jiggle, 91–94, 80, 98
joining of space and time, 42–43

Kennedy, Roy, 100
Kennedy-Thorndike experiment, 100
Kepler, Johannes, 14
Kepler conjecture, 14
kinetic energy, 155, 157–158
Koczor, Ron, 62
Kundig, Walter, 141

leptons, 5, 26
Leucippus, 1
light, 72–74
> absolute speed of, 124
> bending, 42, 59
> clock, 89
> in moving water, 101, appendix B
> speed differs from c, 75, 82, 88, 99
> zero rest mass, 74, 93
linear momentum, conservation of, 151–154
longitudinal gravitational waves, 33
longitudinal pressure waves, 55
> ten times the speed of light, 55
longitudinal shock waves, 164
longitudinal waves, 31–33
Lorentz force law, 127, 129
Lorentz, Hendrik, 7, 75, 82
Lorentz-FitzGerald contraction, 100, 105
luminiferous ether, 96, see also ether

magnetic field, 127
magnetic force, 69–72
magnetism, 26, 29
Mandelbrot, Benoit, 21
mass, 4, 24, 26–27, 41
> gravitational, 41
> inertial, 41
> invariance, 108
> relativistic, 4, 78, 108-111,
> what is it?, xiii, 27
mass–energy, equivalence, 4, 155
matter, 1–6
> perception of, xiii, 2, 25
> wavelike nature, 3, 34
matter-fractals, 21, 24, 26–28, 34–36, 44–45, 52, 56–57, 59
> fundamental particles, 21, 24
> mass of, 26–27, 57, 59
> motion through wisp space, 26–28, 34–35
> stability of, 27–28
> zero-state spheres, 15,17, 26–28
>> size of, 159
Maxwell, James Clerk, 29, 75
measurements:
> absolute and relative, 80
> in an absolute frame, 83
> relative, 81
measuring the speed of light without mirrors, test, 99
meteors, 55
> shock waves, 33, 55
Michelson interferometer, 96
Michelson-Morley experiment, 8, 30, 75, 79, 92, 96, 98–99
momentum:
> conservation of, 151–154
> classical formula for, 153
> linear, relativistic formula for, 112
muon, 5, 8
M-Theory, 7

Nambu, Yoichiro, 6
NASA, 62–64, 66, 164
Ne’eman, Yuval, 18
New Scientist, 62
Newton, Sir Isaac, xiii, 2, 9, 39–40, 42–43, 47, 50, 51, 67
> law of gravitation 40– 41, 47, 64
> laws of motion 36–37
Nielsen, Holger, 6
nuclear ‘spring’ potential energy (rest energy), 155
nuclear binding force, 24, 26, 36, 47, 52
> gap, 26, 44, 49
nuclear force, strong and weak, 39, 47

one-state space, 14, 25, 26, 28, 36, 45
one-way light speed test, 99, 108
Open University, 12

particle accelerator forces, 109–114
particles of nothingness, 28
photon, see light
Pioneers’ orbital discrepancies, 64
Planck, Max, 3
Podkletnov, Eugene, 60, 67
Podkletnov’s experiments, 60
> apparatus, 62
> gravity shielding, 60
> impulse beam, 62, 63
> shielding device 61
Podolsky, Boris 33
precession of Mercury, 42, 66
pressure:
> gases and liquids, 55
> curved wisp space, 55–57, 64
> expanding wisp space, 165, 167
principle of equivalence, 41, 59
principle of least action, 27, 48
principle of relativity, 76
principle of superposition, 44

quantum and superstring theories, 42
quantum entanglement, 33
quantum gravitational effects, 64
quantum gravity, not necessary, 64
quantum mechanics, 3, 33, 34
quantum theory, 3, 7, 10, 33, 42, 64
quantum field theory, 3
quantum mechanics, 3, 8, 64
quantum waves, 26, 28, 31, 32, 36, 92
quarks, 5, 18, 26
quasars, 162
quasi-mass, 108–111, 155

radial compression vector pressure, 55
redshift, 165
relativistic kinetic energy, 155–157
relativistic mass increase: quasi-mass, 78, 108–111,
relativity, see:
> general theory of relativity
> special theory of relativity
> wisp relativity
rest energy, 155, 157
Rosen, Nathan, 33
rotating wisp space, 61–62, 67, 166
> additional gravitational effects, 67
rule for time flow in all material bodies is, 94
rules for time dilation compensation, 119, 122

Schrödinger, Erwin, 3
Schwarz, John, 6
simple harmonic motion (SHM) device, 94
> SHM clocks, 94
simultaneity, 7
singularity, 163
space, 1
space and time:
> Einstein’s, 7–9, 41
> Newton’s, 102
> string theory’s, 7
> not joined, 9, 43, 76
space is absolute, 105
special theory of relativity, 7, 8, 10, 30, 33, 69, 75, 89, 127, 129, 137
> and electromagnetic force, 127–135
> and mass, 4, 78
> counter to common sense, 7, 77
> no direct evidence, 78
> paradoxes, 79
> postulates, 76
> principle of, 76
> and time, see time dilation
speed of light, 78, 79, 82, 124
> greater than light, 147
> one-way, 78
> speed differs from c, 75, 82, 88, 99
> varies depending on the angle, 86
> in moving water, 101, appendix B
> measurements, 100
spherical sphere packing, 14–16
spooky action at a distance, 33
standard model, 4, 5, 42
star speeds in rotating galaxies, 166
> increased gravitational pull, 166
> wisp space rotation, 166
Stokes, George, 98
string theories, 6, 7, 10
strong and weak nuclear forces, 39
strong wisp binding force, 24–27, 36, 44, 45, 47, 52
> matter-fractal binding, 24, 26, 36, 44, 47, 52, 65
superstring theory, 6
supersymmetry theory, 6
Susskind, Leonard, 6
symmetry, 13–19, 28
> asymmetry, 18
> bilateral symmetry, 16
> circular, 13, 16, 18, 45, 48
> cube, 14
> equilateral triangle, 13
> sphere, 14
> transformations, 13
symmetry-breaking, 16–17, 45

Tampere University of Technology, 60
tension and compression forces, 45–47
theory foundations, 9-12
> Newton, 9–10
> quantum theory, 10
> relativity, 10
> string theory, 10
> wisp theory, 11
Thomson, J.J, 30
Thorndike, Richard, 100
time, 1, 89
> unit of time (second), 8
time dilation, 8, 75, 94, 102
> compensation, 81
> defined as, 89
> derived formula for, 89–91
> muons, 8
time dilation: mechanical/biological clocks, 94
top quark, 159
> mass of, 159
total energy, 156–157
transverse Doppler effect, see Doppler effect of light
transverse force, 37, 79
> speed of, 37
transverse waves, 26, 31–32, 34, 36, 92

unification, attempts at, 6, 8–9, 42

Veneziano, Gabriele, 6
vortex rings, 30

wave functions, 34
wave packet, 34
waves in wisp space:
> faster than light, 33
> longitudinal, 31–32
> matter-fractals, 3, 31–33
> quantum, 26, 28, 31–32, 34, 36
> transverse, 31–32
Wess, Julius, 6
wisp transformations:
> acceleration transformations, 111, 113–115
> coordinate and frame velocity transformations, 102
> frame velocity transformation, 103
wisp relativity, postulates of, 79–80
wisp space rotation, 61–62, 67, 166
wisp theory of gravitation, 43–53
> shadows, 52
wisp versus special relativity tests, 99, appendix A
Witten, Edward, 7
zero-state space, 15, 17, 26, 28, 30, 34, 39, 43, 52
zero-state space shock waves, 53–54
zero-state sphere, 26, 52, 57
> sphere’s radius, 26–27
Zimino, Bruno, 6
Zweig, George, 18

 

 

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