Today’s scientists can make extremely accurate quantitative predictions of most experimental observations based on two theories.  The first or Quantum Mechanics makes extremely accurate predictions regarding the microscopic quantum properties of mass and energy while the second, the "General Theory of Relativity" makes extremely accurate predictions regarding the macroscopic properties of a gravitational field.

However, these two theories appear to be incompatible because when one tries to mathematically integrate quantum theories predictions that mass and gravity are discontinuous or quantized into the continuous properties the General Theories of Relativity associate with gravity, infinities arise.

But we may get a better understand a connection gravity and its quantum properties of mass and energy by examining our experiences with mass and energy in the macroscopic world and use our imagination to extrapolate them to the microscopic world of particles.

One of the most obvious macroscopic properties of the mass is that it has volume and for a mass of a given density, its volume increases as its mass increase.  This indicates that mass may be associated with the geometry of a spatial not a time dimension, as is assumed in The General Theory of relativity because the quantity of the mass in an object with the same density appears to be directly related to an change in a spatial characteristic of its volume. 

However, its mass and density remains constant dispute a change or passage of time. This also suggests that mass is related to a spatial not a time property of a dimension.

Additionally, we observe when energy is added to a volume by the burning or conversion of mass to energy it expands.  This seems to suggest that energy may be associated with a component of a spatial dimension and not one of time or a space-time dimension as is suggested by Relativity.

The reversal of this process involving the geometry of a spatial dimension is also observable.

For example, when one cools the environment of a closed humid system the spatial geometry or volume of that system decreases.  Additionally if enough energy is removed from a humid environment water droplets will seem to condense or to appear out of empty space.  The water droplets were there before the environment was cooled however; they were too small to be observed.

This also indicates at least in the observable macroscopic universe that the causality of mass and energy may be related to a physical component of a spatial dimension and not one of a time or space-time dimension.

We also observe in particle accelerators that when mass is converted to energy the volume of the closed environment where that conversion took place expands.  This observation is similar to what we observe in mass to energy conversions in the macroscopic world in that the conversion mass to energy causes an increase in the volume of the system they are occupying.

This suggests the mechanism responsible for mass to energy conversions in a microscopic particle world may be similar to those of the macroscopic world in that they are both related to a physical component of a spatial dimension not a time or space-time dimension.

Observations also indicate that energy to mass conversions in the microscopic world may also be related to a spatial component of a dimension.

When two particles collide in a particle accelerator, some of the energy in the environment where the collision takes place may be absorbed by the colliding particles.  This will decrease the energy content of that environment which results in the contraction of the spatial geometry of that environment.

Additionally we can observe that other particles seem to appear out of empty space if enough energy is removed from the environment by the collisions of the particles.  This process appears to be very similar to the one observed in the macroscopic world in which water droplets appear out of a humid environment when enough energy is removed from it to allow the invisible water vapor to condense into droplets.

This suggests that the processes and mechanisms that define the macroscopic relationship between mass and energy may be the same the microscopic quantum world of particles.

This also suggests that mass and energy are made up of geometric property of a higher spatial dimension and not a time of space-time dimension.

In future articles of The Imagineer’s Chronicles will shown that one can derive a common mechanism responsible for the quantum properties of mass and energy and the relativistic properties of space, and time, in term of a common mechanism based only the existence of a higher  fourth *spatial* dimension instead of four dimensional space time.

So please visit us occasionally if you are interested gaining a better understanding of the true nature of mass and energy.

Thank you

Jeff

The "Shadows" of four spatial dimensions

Copyright Jeffrey O’Callaghan 2007

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