Posted on 02/05/2006 1:48:11 PM PST by ckilmer
Alexander Franklin Mayer Theoretical Physicist and Cosmologist
1 February 2006
Welcome!
For a number of months now at Stanford University (Physics), I have been quietly working on a book entitled The Many Directions of Time, which I anticipate will go to press in 2006. Here you will find a preview of related 'digital lectures' that have been created to appeal to a wide global audience including topic experts as well as students, amateur astronomers and scientific professionals of all varieties.
The Introduction (17 PowerPoint slides) will take you less than 10 minutes to go through and should convince you that the larger body of work (Lectures 1 and 2) are very much worth your while to investigate.
The lectures are based on a single underlying idea that drove the insights they contain: that time is not a single dimension of spacetime but rather a local geometric distinction in spacetime. While this may seem very esoteric, it is actually quite simple.
Not too long ago, people thought the Earth was flat, which meant they thought that gravity pointed in the same direction everywhere. Today, we think of that as a silly idea, but at the same time, most people today (including most scientists) still think of spacetime as if it were a big box with 3 space dimensions and 1 time dimension. So, like gravity for a flat Earth, the single time dimension for the 'big box universe' points in one direction, from the Big-Bang into the future. A lot of lip service is given to the idea of "curved spacetime", but the simplistic 3+1 'box' remains the dominant concept of what cosmic spacetime is like.
Imagine that 'the arrow of time' in the Universe, like gravity on Earth, is pretty much the same everywhere, yet also different everywhere relative to everywhere else. That means that the 'arrow of time' points in different directions in spacetime depending on where you are, so time has a geometry just like space has a geometry. The novel idea that there are an infinite number of time dimensions in the Universe revolutionizes gravitational theory and much of modern science with it. A number of outstanding scientific mysteries are definitively solved, including observations that lead to the concepts of 'dark energy' and 'dark matter'. You will know what these are after you read the lectures.
My pending personal URL is alexandermayer.com, which currently redirects to this Website. The draft release was on 27 December 2005.
A search for "Alexander Franklin Mayer" at the moment produces "about 9" hits on Google, including a patent application for a "System and method for testing semiconductor devices". (Maybe that is a different Mayer.)
He is listed as a "visiting scholar" at Stanford. His planet of origin is not provided.
His theory, if proven, will rewrite astronomy and more. Or maybe he is about to be zotted.
This guy must be fun in person. I'll bet he is very, very quick.
Great stuff.
"In summation," he said, "one adds."
Thanks for the article.
I have come up with some thought experiments that SEEM to indicate the the physical spacial dimensions have a time dimension attached.
But I won't bore anybody with it!
Quack? He might not be a quack, just trying to explain what turns out to be the common cosmological view in his own words.
I have often said Einsteins work gave us one thing - a geometry. Not a cause or explanation.
That it did. It might be noted that he rejected some solutions to his geometry if they didn't seem to follow reality. From that it might be assumed that he saw his work as not the final answer.
Well, it also gave us the photo-electric effect.
And . . . invented the photon. A two-fer.
Brownian motion as well. But I was talking the relativity side of things.
Photons are the laughter of electrons.
Lol!
And Electrons are phantoms that disappear as soon as you try to touch them!
They're very ticklish! That's what causes the laughter.
Superconductivity is caused by electron pairs forming soliton waves inside the lattice structure of the material.
What happens to charged particles traveling through buckytubes?
I'm still working on the " wormhole theory".
Do you work for a delivery company?
Can you really say superconductivity is caused by something? I mean it is the absence of effects that would cause resistance. Can the absence of something be a cause? Is superconductivity the norm and resistance effects the exception?
I am highly interested in the epistemology of science.
I tend to think that perhaps the Indian mystics actually have it right, and the world is really made of mana.
"Stuff". Just some kind of "stuff".
I have posted on previous threads if we had enough time and patience, we could probably manufacture a functioning universe out of legos.
It was poorly stated. I could have said that superconductivity occurs when electron pairs form soliton waves in the lattice structure of the material.
I am interested in the Legos concept. But they will have to be made smaller, multi-functional, and in vast quantities.
The company name would be the Faxel Company, and it would make the dust, and the machines that use the dust to make everything else.
The universe can be made of five lines of code.
-Wolfram
why are you asking me a set of incoherencies, with factual errors buried within them?
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