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In
Chapter 1
we establish the principle of time dilation, the fact that the effects of time
on any material object slow down as that object increases its speed. We put this
on a clear mathematical footing, deriving a formula to express the rate of
time-experience in relation to the speed of motion. This result is expressed in
terms of the speed of the energy flows forming matter. In Chapter 3 it's
established that the rate of those energy flows is in fact c, the speed
of light
In
Chapter 2
the mathematical relationship of time to all spatial dimensions is explored. The
popular concept of 'spacetime' casts time in the role of the fourth dimension,
perpendicular to the three spatial dimensions. Relativity Theory regards all
objects as moving in this 4-dimensional 'space-time continuum', whereas this new
perspective shows time as flowing through those objects at varying rates
depending on their speed of motion in 3-D space. The impression of 'moving in a
fourth dimension' is shown to be a mathematical consequence of the rate of flow
of the energies that produce the effects of time.
Chapter 3
goes on to show how this orthogonality (right-angledness, mathematically
speaking) of time-effects to spatial motion results in one particular speed of
motion being seen as the same by all constant-velocity observers, whatever their
own speed or direction of motion.
This 'absolute speed' (as opposed to a varying relative
speed) corresponds to the speed of energy flows in matter. Since this quality is
known to also apply to the speed of light, and since only one such absolute
speed can exist, the speed of material energy flows is established as being the
speed of light.
Chapter 4
looks at the issue of different reference frames - different speeds and
directions of motion. Conventional relativity theory says that all inertial
(constant-velocity, no gravitational effects) reference frames are of equal
standing, that there is no one speed and/or direction of motion that could be
considered as 'at rest' in absolute terms.
This leads to the notion that different orderings of
events, as perceived from different states of motion, are equally valid - that
there is no one sequence of events that can be regarded as the way that things
happened. That in turn leads logically to the conclusion that travelling faster
than the speed of light could result in travelling backwards in time; this
applies for material objects or for information.
This chapter offers a careful reappraisal of that
conclusion, from the perspective of the material energy-flow paradigm.
Chapter 5
explores the issue of transferring from one reference frame to another. In other
words, given a mathematical description of what's going on as viewed from one
inertial reference frame, how does that look from another such state of motion?
This question was tackled by Hendrik Lorentz, a
contemporary of Einstein, who came up with The Lorentz Transformation.
This is a set of equations that translates distances, times and velocities as
seen from one frame of reference into the corresponding values for the other.
In this chapter we'll see how the energy-flow perspective
on matter leads to exactly those equations. We'll also look at an interesting
twist in the tale of those transformation equations.
In addition we'll briefly revisit the discovery made in
Tapestry of Light
(but seen this time from the mathematical standpoint)
that careful consideration of the Lorentz Transformation from the energy-flow
view provides a scientific basis for the
Principle of Special Relativity, as deduced
but never proved by Einstein.
Chapter 6
takes us to Einstein's famous mass-energy equivalence relationship, E = mc2.
First, though, we'll look at what mass is, why inertia happens and how the
effective mass of an object increases with its speed - all from a mathematical
standpoint.
That completes the mathematics of the material energy-flow
perspective on the nature of matter and time, and the relationship of those
findings to the experimentally-validated features of Special Relativity. This
book then continues with explorations of three related topics: time, the Quantum
Leap and Hubble expansion of space.
Chapter 7
looks at some of the very different ways in which the same word, time, is used
both in everyday speech and in the scientific context. Is it any wonder that our
understanding of this concept is at times (!!) confused? This chapter also looks
at a noted philosophical argument for the view that there is in fact no such
thing as time and offers a reason for the contradictions and paradoxes
surrounding this subject.
Chapter 8
questions a fundamental assumption in respect of the famed quantum leap, and
offers a rather different view based on the energy-flow understanding of matter.
Chapter 9
looks at the well-documented phenomenon of the expansion of space, as discovered
by Edwin Hubble in 1929. It offers a slightly tongue-in-cheek alternative
explanation for the observed effects of this ongoing process - mainly for the
purpose of showing that there may be other ways of interpreting scientific
evidence than the one that seems obvious.
It remains only to say that this book can be read as a
stand-alone text giving a mathematically-supported validation of all of the
concepts explored in Chapters 2 to 5 of
Tapestry of Light. (To this end the
Appendices and Bibliography provided in Tapestry
are also included at the end of this book.)
However the full depth and significance of those concepts
will only be apparent if read in conjunction with
Tapestry. Chapter 6 of Tapestry
also gives pointers to further developments of these concepts, several of which are covered in a later publication, Atoms of Light and The Relativity Myth
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