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Loading...We have shown throughout "The Imagineer’s Chronicles" there are several theoretical advantages to defining the universe in terms of four *spatial* dimensions instead of four dimensional space time.
One of them is that it would allow theoreticians to define what gravity is in terms which are consistent with quantum mechanics.
Modern physicists define the propagation of all forms of energy in terms of an interaction between the particle properties of mass. For example, the expansive energy of a gas is defined in terms of the velocity of the gas particles contained in the gas and the energy of a rockets engine is defined in terms of the velocity of gas particles as they exit the rocket engine.
Isaac Newton summed up the forces and energies associated with particle interaction in his third law: "All forces in the universe occur in equal but oppositely directed pairs".
However, the propagation of gravitational energy does not appear to follow this law of particle interaction because of its attractive properties. If gravitational energy were propagated by a particle interaction, those particles would have to originate within the mass itself. Therefore, according to Newton’s third law when it interacted with another mass its energy would be directed away from that mass not towards it.
This and the fact the "gravitation" or the particle many physicists believe is responsible for its propagation has not been observed suggests the existence of a continuous dimensional surface to explain its causality.
This is one of the reason why many physicists assume the gravity is a result of a physical curvature in a continuous space-time metric defined by the General Theory of Relativity even though it has some observational creditability issues.
The most significant is that time is not observed or perceive as matter or space but as an irreversible physical, chemical, or biological change in physical space. In other words, time is not perceived to have any physical properties. Therefore, because time has never observed to have physical properties it is difficult to understand how gravity can be caused by its interaction with the physical properties of a spatial dimension.
The article "Defining energy?" Nov. 26, 2007 showed that observation of our environment suggest that all forms of energy including gravitational can be defined in terms of a displacement or curvature in a continuous "surface" of a three-dimensional space manifold with respect to a fourth *spatial* dimensions.
One of these is that the energy contained in a system is related to distance not time.
For example, the kinetic energy of a moving object is dependent on its velocity or the distance traveled pre unit of time and the potential energy per unit volume of water in a dam is related to the distance separating the surface of the water from the bottom of the dam.
However, the energy in all systems appears to be independent of time because the energy of the water in a dam and the velocity or distance an object travels per unit of time remains constant no matter how much time has passed unless it is acted upon by some outside force.
Granted the power an energy source can generate is determined by the rate or time required for the dissipation its energy however, the total quantity of energy in a closed system is never observed to be effected by the passage of time.
This gives a degree of observation credibility to defining the gravitational energy in terms of a curvature in a "surface" of a three dimensional space manifold with respect to a fourth *spatial* dimensions.
However, as mentioned earlier there does not appear to be any observations to support defining it terms of the physical properties of a time or space-time dimension.
Additionally as was shown in the article "Why is energy quantized?" Oct 4, 2007 that it is possible derive the quantum properties of mass and energy in terms of a resonant system or "structure" generated by a matter wave moving on a continuous "surface" of a three-dimensional space manifold with respect to a fourth *spatial* dimension.
This indicates theoretically defining gravity in terms of the continuous properties four *spatial* dimensions give theoreticians the ability to understand and define the quantum characteristics of gravity and how it is propagated terms of a common mechanism.
Later Jeff
The "Shadows* of four spatial dimensions
Copyright 2007 Jeffrey O’Callaghan
(In a PDF format)
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