The Great Puzzle

An attempt to put pieces of knowledge from various parts of physics together to one uniform picture.

Abstract

This eBook is an attempt to figure out what space and matter has got to be like in order that all known phenomenon shall fit in. It turns out that an elastic spatial continuum with certain simple properties has the capacity to explain all electromagnetic properties in empty space as well as the nature of Special Relativity. Standing waves between singularities along a string of nodes in the spatial continuum may serve as a foundation to see how luminous energy and matter is built up, basically as disturbance energy in the elastic continuum. Material particles and photons will manifest themselves as evacuated bubbles moving from node to node along the string with the propagating speed of transversal waves. Confined disturbance energy will displace some of the elastic continuum from where it is located, and the pressure gradient that it creates will act as a wall around the energy concentration and constitute the strong forces needed to keep it at bay. A huge implosion, similar to what we see when a gas bubble implodes to emit light in an experiment with sonoluminecence, may have compressed space to an extent where the symmetry was broken and brought space itself to the boiling point when all matter was created in the Big Bang. From then on space would have been expanding, and all confined energy in such an expanding space, will create around itself an extremely weak pressure gradient that can be compared with the gravitational potential. The varying density thus created around heavy bodies will influence the speed of longitudinal and transversal waves in the continuum causing rays of radiation to bend towards such bodies. Since material particles are bubbles that always move along strings with the speed of light along some curled up paths, they will always be drawn towards a gravitating body. It turns out that any local measuring system that we possibly can manage to define, will render the speed of light unaffected of position. Therefore it will be necessary to calculate wave movements in a space with time and length units that varies throughout space, which will lead to defining space as being curved. Hence matter and light will move along geodesics in space according to General Relativity.
The Great Puzzle (254 pages, format A5, updated May 2008) (pdf)
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