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Table of Contents
Welcome
About the Author
Notes to the First Edition
Acknowledgements and Credits
Abbreviations |                 |
  | PART
I BACKGROUND
PHYSICS |
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1.
The Speed of Light |
| 1.1
:
Light is pretty fast
1.2 : Lightspeed varies
1.3 : Lightspeed is not just the speed of light
1.4 : Lightspeed affects inertia
1.5 : Lightspeed controls timeflow
1.6 : Lightspeed is locally constant
1.7 : Lightspeed is now defined as constant
1.8 : The gravity well
1.9 : Light travels in straight lines. Except when it doesn't
1.10 : Light used to define a straight line
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2.
Gravity, Energy and Mass |
| 2.1
: What is mass?
2.2 : Does light have mass?
2.3 : Genie in a bottle: Thought-experiments with bottled light
2.4 : Difficulty of detecting the effect
2.5 : Mass-to-energy conversion
2.6 : History of E=mc˛
2.7 : Energy has mass, period |           |
3.
Curved Space and Time |
| 3.1
:
Gravity is …
what, exactly?
3.2 : Gravity bends light
3.3 : Gravity warps geometry
3.4 : Gravity as a variation in inertia
3.5 : Energy-change in light due to gravity
3.6 : Gravitational redshifts and blueshifts
3.7 : Gravitational time dilation
3.8 : Not just curved space, but curved spacetime |
          | 4.
Relativity |
| 4.1
:
Relativity
of space
4.2 : Relativity of time
4.3 : Relativity of velocity
4.4 : Isaac Newton's "Principia"
4.5 : Mach and relativity
4.6 : Practical advantages of "relativistic" arguments
4.7 : Applying Occam's Razor
4.8 : Different "Principles of Relativity"
4.9 : Causes of confusion
4.10 : Relativity of acceleration
4.11 : Relative acceleration vs. absolute acceleration
4.12 : Relativity of rotation
4.13 : "Centrifugal" and "Coriolis" fields
4.14 : Rotational dragging
4.15 : Experimental verification
4.16 : Equivalence principles |                   |
5.
The Newtonian Catastrophe |
| 5.1
:
Newton's
unification scheme
5.2 : The lightspeed mistake
5.3 : The "space-density" mistake
5.4 : The light-energy mistake
5.5 : Loss of wave-particle duality
5.6 : Newton vs. Huyghens
5.7 : The lightspeed trap
5.8 : Consequences for physics |           |
  |
PART II
EFFECTS due to RELATIVE MOTION | |
6.
Doppler Shifts |
| 6.1
:
"Stationary observer" Doppler effect
6.2 : "Stationary source" Doppler effect
6.3 : Comparisons
6.4 : Transverse Doppler effect (audio)
6.5 : Optical Doppler effects
6.6 : Longitudinal Doppler effect under Special Relativity
6.7 : Transverse Doppler effect under Special Relativity |
       
| 7.
Apparent Length-Changes in Moving
Objects |
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7.1
: Apparent
changes in length
7.2 : Approaching objects appear elongated
7.3 : Receding objects appear contracted
7.4 : Degree of contraction or elongation
7.5 : Special relativity and length-changes
7.6 : Rulers and gravitation |       |
8.
Aberration of Angles |
| 8.1
:
Aberration of Angles
8.2 : Relativistic aberration at 90 degrees
8.3 : The Relativistic Ellipse
8.4 : Putting it all together
8.5 : Relativistic ellipse: Newtonian theory
8.6 : Relativistic ellipse: Special relativity |
        | 9.
Moving bodies drag light |
| 9.1
:
Generality of dragging effects
9.2 : Naming conventions: gravitomagnetism, frame-dragging
9.3 : Argument #1: Linear GM as a gravitational timelag effect
9.4 : Argument #2: "Effective gravitational potential" depends on
relative velocity
9.5 : Argument #3: Gravitational smudging
9.6 : Argument #4: The slingshot effect
9.7 : Argument #5: Rotational GM and gravitational timelag
9.8 : Argument #6: QM and "probabilistic" smudging
9.9 : Argument #7: Experiment: The Fizeau effect
9.10 : Inconsistencies in our approach to velocity
9.11 : Cancellation and unification?
9.12 : Implementation – the tilted gravity-well
9.13 : Zeno revisited: the "impossibility" of motion
9.14 : Worldlines and curvature
9.15 : Uh-oh …
9.16 : The score chart
9.17 : "Relativistic" implementations of lightspeed constancy |
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| PART III
LIMITS TO OBSERVATION |
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10.
Quantum Mechanics and
Observability |
| 10.1
: The
origin of quantum mechanics
10.2 : Is quantum mechanics a theory?
10.3 : The "Copenhagen" and "Hidden Variable" interpretations
10.4 : The two-slit experiment
10.5 : Quantum mechanics and everyday experience
10.6 : Illusion and reality
10.7 : Pair Production
10.8 : Virtual particles
10.9 : Pseudo- pair production |               |
11.
Dark Stars and Black Holes |
| 11.1
: John
Michell's dark stars
11.2 : Properties of a compact gravitational object
11.3 : Escape velocity calculations and the gravitational horizon
11.4 : Tidal forces
11.5 : "Visiting" particles around a dark star
11.6 : Dark stars and "acoustic" metrics
11.7 : Acoustic metrics and nonlinearity
11.8 : Black holes under GR1915
11.9 : The Kerr black hole
11.10 : The expansion problem
11.11 : The acceleration problem
11.12 : Black holes according to Quantum Mechanics
11.13 : Hawking Radiation
11.14 : Pair-production and pseudo-pair-production
11.15 : Attempts to eliminate the "dark star" explanation
11.16 : Acoustic metrics, once again
11.17 : "Acceleration radiation"
11.18 : The Black Hole Information Paradox
11.19 : The BHIP and Microcausality
11.20 : "Observerspace" arguments
11.21 : The Membrane Paradigm
11.22 : Holographic arguments
11.23 : The Holographic Principle in action
11.24 : The “no-signal” problem
11.25 : The verdict | 
                           |
 
| PART
IV
UPDATING STANDARD THEORY |
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12.
What's wrong with General
Relativity? |
| 12.1
: "Core"
experimental tests of general relativity
12.2 : Experimental significance
12.3 : Incompatibility with quantum mechanics
12.4 : Fudge factor?: The Cosmological Constant
12.5 : Possible breaking of conservation laws
12.6 : Possible incompatibility with Mach's principle
12.7 : Fudge factor?: Galactic curves and Dark Matter
12.8 : Arbitrary suspension of the Equivalence Principle
12.9 : Invoking reduction to flat spacetime
12.10 : Use of tailor-made definitions
12.11 : Do cosmological horizons count as "acoustic"?
12.12 : Doppler effects and the Black Hole Information Paradox
12.13 : Grand unification?
12.14 : Gravitomagnetic incompatibility?
12.15 : Complexity
12.16 : Is GR1915 scientifically falsifiable?
12.17 : Blaming special relativity |                         |
13.
Horrible Nasty Mathematics |
| 13.1
: A
family of relativistic theories
13.2 : Selecting a reference theory
13.3 : Defining the range
13.4 : Ellipses
13.5 : Special relativity as a special solution
13.6 : Positive values of © and positive curvature
13.7 : Rejecting negative solutions for ©
13.8 : Gravitomagnetism suggests positive ©
13.9 : Graphed Doppler responses
13.10 : Setting "one" as a higher limit for ©
13.11 : Using the BHIP to set a minimum of "one" for ©
13.12 : Oops?
13.13 : Preliminary conclusions |           |
  | PART
V
SPECIAL RELATIVITY and FLAT SPACETIME |
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14.
Einstein's "special" theory of
relativity |
| 14.1
: The
birth of special relativity
14.2 : Failure of earlier theories
14.3 : … "Draggable" aethers
14.4 : … Absolute aether
14.5 : Aether, either, neither neither
14.6 : Lorentz Ether Theory (LET), ~1904
14.7 : Special relativity, 1905
14.8 : Additional interpretational overhead
14.9 : Minkowski Spacetime
14.10 : Implications of Minkowski spacetime |
            | 15.
So, what's wrong with the special
theory? |
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15.1
: SR and
Observerspace
15.2 : Is the special theory "robust"?
15.3 : Minkowski spacetime as an argument against SR
15.4 : The "stratification" problem
15.5 : Does SR "do" acceleration?
15.6 : Extensibility
15.7 : Cumulative redshift effects
15.8 : … Thermal redshifts
15.9 : … Cosmological redshifts
15.10 : Round-trip effects in general |               |
16.
The Experimental
Evidence for
Special
Relativity |
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16.1
:
Commonly-cited proofs of special relativity
16.2 : … E=mc˛
16.3 : "Classical Theory" vs. Special Relativity
16.4 : … "Transverse" redshifts
16.5 : … "Longitudinal" Doppler shifts
16.6 : … The lightspeed upper limit in particle accelerators
16.7 : … The "searchlight" effect
16.8 : … Velocity-addition
16.9 : … Particle tracklengths
16.10 : … Muon showers
16.11: … Particle storage rings and centrifugal time dilation
16.12 : deSitter / Brecher disproof of simple emission theory
16.13 : "Domain of validity" issues
16.14 : Conclusions | 
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  | PART
VI
FUTURE PHYSICS |
| 17.
Cosmologies |
| 17.1
: The
expanding universe
17.2 : The "Big Bang"
17.3 : Spatial closure
17.4 : Expansion curves
17.5 : Cosmological time coordinates
17.6 : The Hartle-Hawking "bubble universe"
17.7 : Entropy, arrows of time, and the Big Crunch
17.8 : Extending the "bubble" model
17.9 : Variable dimensionality?
17.10 : "Mirror" and "kaleidoscope" universes
17.11 : Oranges and raspberries
17.12 : A few Multiverses
17.13 : Fractal universe arguments
17.14 : Why is the universe rational?
17.15 : The Drake Equation
17.16 : Before Event Zero |                           |
18.
Trouble with Wormholes |
| 18.1
: What is
a wormhole?
18.2 : “Spacetime surgery” and simple optics
18.3 : Wormhole instability?
18.4 : The distance problem
18.5 : The ageing problem
18.6 : The "antihorizon" problem
18.7 : "Anti-wormholes" and spatial reversal
18.8 : The Kerr wormhole
18.9 : The fieldline problem
18.10 : The gravity problem
18.11 : Wormhole politics
18.12 : The time-connection problem
18.13 : Wormhole time travel?
18.14 : Mistaken time machine behaviour
18.15 : Quantum foam
18.16 : Scale-dependent topology
18.17 : Pseudowormholes
18.18 : Does quantum foam contain only pseudowormholes?
18.19 : Do wormholes exist at all? |                   |
19.
Metric Engineering and Warp
Drives |
| 19.1
: "Space
bungees" and regenerative braking
19.2 : Boomeranging
19.3 : Exotic-matter drives
19.4 : The negative-field problem
19.5 : Ultrafast travel using simple gravity
19.6 : The "cresting" problem
19.7 : The Krasnikov tube
19.8 : Warpfield Hawking radiation?
19.9 : The “acoustics” analogue
19.10 : Simple warpfield generators
19.11 : Toroidal configurations
19.12 : Cancellation and non-cancellation
19.13 : The 2-spin torus
19.14 : Self-refraction and cross-refraction
19.15 : General field-refraction issues
19.16 : Momentum conversion
19.17 : "Reactionless" drives and deferred momentum
19.18 : Can we build a working warp drive? |                       |
  | PART
VII
THE HUMAN FACTOR |
| 20.
Limitations of language and
procedure |
| 20.1
: The
order in which things are written
20.2 : Lightspeed, velocity, and language traps
20.3 : Fractured logic
20.4 : Logic traps and logical black holes
20.5 : More examples of circular thinking
20.6 : Is consistency all it's cracked up to be?
20.7 : "First answer" syndrome
20.8 : Life, Death, and the Square Root of Two
20.9 : The story of Pi
20.10 : Pi and global extinction
20.11 : Naming rituals, binary logic and Giant Pandas
20.12 : Intransitive logics
20.13 : Complex logical spaces
20.14 : Intransitive ordering and gravitation
20.15 : "Certainty" parameters
20.16 : Living with uncertainty
20.17 : Conclusions | 
                       | 21.
The Perils of Experimentation |
| 21.1
:
Evaluating science neutrality
21.2 : Perception filters
21.3 : System bias and "v1.0" syndrome
21.4 : Safety in Numbers
21.5 : Accident reporting
21.6 : Quantum sociology?
21.7 : Pattern Recognition and group decisionmaking
21.8 : Market Forces
21.9 : Physics nightmares |                   |
22.
Conclusions |
| 22.1
: SR-based or NM-based physics?
22.2 : The fork in the road
22.3 : Warning
signs
22.4 : Mathematical truth vs. relevance
22.5 : Alternative alternatives
22.6 : Life after special relativity |             |
 | PART
VIII
Calculations, References and Index
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Calculations
1: Doppler shifts
Calculations
2:
E=mc˛ from Newtonian mechanics
Calculations
3:
Non-SR transverse Doppler effect / "aberration redshift"
Calculations
4:
The "Box of Frogs" depiction of classical
Hawking
radiation
("do frogs have dirty feet?")
Calculations 5:
Comparison table
Major Players
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