A proposal for unifying the relativistic properties of the macroscopic universe with those of the microscopic quantum universe in terms of the existence of four *spatial* dimensions and a continuous non-quantized form of mass.

 Authors: Jeffrey O’Callaghan (Author) the_imagineers@yahoo.com IM The_imagineers, Juan Echaurren (Co-Author, Collaborator) jechaurren@hotmail.com, Christian Mills (Co-Author, Collaborator, Editor) captain_mills@yahoo.com, Stefan von Weber (Collaborator) webers@fh-furtwangen.de, Tjipto Juwono (Collaborator) tjipto2000@yahoo.com

Introduction: Common sense sometimes gives a false indication of reality.  As a result, "Shadows" of other truths go unnoticed.

For example, many people of the fifteenth century believed the earth was flat, even though they could see the circular shadow of the earth moving across the moon during a lunar eclipse.

However, Christopher Columbus along with many educated people of that time realized this to be an indication that the earth might be spherical.

He trusted both his intellect and his senses more than the conventional wisdom of the time and sailed to a new world of knowledge and understanding.

Abstract: Quantum mechanics and Einstein's Relativistic Theories of have been the most successful scientific theories of modern times however, attempts to unify them and define "A Theory of Everything" have been unsuccessful.

This is because their exists an incompatibility between the microscopic universe described by quantum mechanics and the macroscopic one described by Einstein's theories with respect to its structure.

Einstein's theories define the macroscopic universe in terms of the existence of a continuous space-time metric while quantum theories define the microscopic universe in terms of discontinuous particles. Therefore, these two theories are inherently incompatible because the universe cannot be both continuous and discontinuous at the same time.

However, "Shadows" demonstrates the relativistic properties of space and time and the quantum properties of mass, energy, momentum and position can be explained and predicted by defining the universe in terms of a common mechanism related to the existence four *spatial* dimensions and a continuous non-quantized form of mass.

Chapter one will postulate that space is composed four *spatial* dimensions and a continuous non-quantized form of mass.

Chapter two will derive the quantum or particle characteristics of mass in terms of discrete energies associated with resonant "structures" formed in space by "oscillations" in a continuous non-quantized form of mass.

Chapter three will define the wave properties of particles in terms resonant system or structure formed by the oscillations of a matter wave in a continuous non-quantized form of mass moving on a "surface" of a three-dimensional space manifold with respect to a fourth *spatial* dimension.

Therefore, Chapters two and three provide a bridge between discontinuous or particle properties of the microscopic universe to the continuous properties of the macroscopic one in terms of a continuous non-quantized form of mass and four *spatial* dimensions.

(Louis de Broglie was the first to theorize that all particles have a wave component. His theories were confirmed by the discovery of electron diffraction by crystals in 1927 by Davisson and Germer. However, this indicates that a continuous non-quantized medium must exist because his theories indicate that even the smallest possible particle must have a wave component. But, macroscopic observations of waves indicate that it can only be propagated on a medium made up of mass. Therefore, the success of Louis de Broglie theory indicates that a continuous non-quantized form of mass exists.)

Time will be defined as only being a measure of the sequential ordering of the causality of an event, while the causality of gravity, momentum and the quantum properties of mass and energy will be defined in terms of the physical properties of four *spatial* dimensions.  It will then be individually linked to each coordinate plane of four-dimensional space by the mathematical and experimental observed sequential ordering of events that occur in each coordinate plane.

Chapter fifteen will derive the relativistic properties of space and time and the equivalence between gravity and accelerated reference frames terms of a distortion or curvature in a "surface" of a three-dimensional space manifold with respect to a fourth *spatial* dimension.

This indicates redefining the physical structure of the universe in terms of a geometry of four *spatial* dimensions and the existence of a continuous non-quantized form of mass may enable physicists to define a common unifying mechanism responsible for both the quantum and relativistic properties of our universe.

Conclusion: "Shadows" demonstrates the power that changing one's perspective can have in helping humankind understand the mechanisms responsible for the physical laws and forces of nature.

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"I am enough of an artist to draw freely on my imagination.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited.
Imagination circles the world."
Einstein

"Intuitive thinkers have made many of the breakthroughs in science"
Louis de Broglie

"The universe's most powerful enabling tool is
not knowledge or understanding
but imagination"
Jeff

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