This poster display recieved much attention on the first day (July 3rd 2000) of Congress 2000 at St. Petersburg University, but dissapeared overnight. Also included is some of the text from the presentation.
Theoretical Physics is like a jig saw puzzel. In 1905, only half the pieces were present and to make matters worse, the lights were off and some of the pieces were the wrong way up.
Now the lights are on and we have most of the pieces.
We have to agonise over the basic concepts and ask ourselves stupid questions.
When I collected the tickets, I the departure and arival times were all neatly printed out to make things idiot proof for the traveller. I quickly subtracted the times and for a fraction of a second wondered why it took a lot longer to fly there. But it seemed a good question, so I asked the travel agent. She just looked at me and then smiled the way we often smile at people in wheel chairs.
Later I imagined that god thought this a very good question and put it to one of her experts.
Physics in Flux
When respectable scientists
start talking about un-dead cats, alternative universes
and quantum waves that go backwards in time;
something is wrong.
Classical physics got its equations right
but its concepts wrong.
Do the electric fields of individual elementary charged particles combine?
or do they coexist in space?
What is an electron?
| Old | New |
| 
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| A small hard ball with mass and charge | Nothing but energy in the form of a polarisation field |
If we abandon the old and accept the new
The prize is a unified theory of
Action at a Distance
Local Absolute Motion
Electromagnetism
Inertia
Gravity
The effect of gravitational potential on clocks
Lorentz contraction and slowing of clocks
Ahead is the possibility of a new understanding of subatomic and quantum physics
Local Absolute Motion
Magnetic fields form around wires carrying electric currents according to
This is prima facie proof that the electric fields have separate existence
The myriad of individual electric fields coexisting in space
forms a background
against which the the motion of an individual electric field
generates magnetic intensity 
The velocity of the background is
depending on whether electric field strength of electric potential is the deciding factor
The equation of Biot-Savart becomes
for 
Motion of electric fields Against this background
generates magnetic fields
Motion of magnetic fields generates electric fields
This feedback process causes photons and radio waves
to move at a constant speed through the background
Action at a Distance
(Electric forces)
Electrons and quarks are not small objects
They are electric polarisations of space reaching out towards infinity
The surface is just displacement charge
The displacement charge
which forms the positive surfaces of the up quarks
sits within the electric polarisation field
which is the extended presence of the electron
This is a local action which exerts a force
The force on the proton is the sum of all of the forces
exerted on its quark by all of the other charges in the universe
Action at a Distance
(Magnetic forces)
The energy density of a magnetic field is
The energy content of a magnetic field consists of the sum of the individual contributions of the moving charges which generate it.
Magnetic energy is personal to individual charges
and constrained to move parallel to its electric flux 
The force on the surface element of a charge
is due to changes in the energy content of the magnetic field
in the Faraday tube extending outwards from it
Magnetic flux is energy and movement is a flow of energy
Associated with the flow of energy is a flux density 
At the surface, magnetic flux emerges from
or is adsorbed into the surface
Its velocity is determined by energy flow and energy density
Using Faraday's law gives the force on the surface element
The surface element acts as an engine
turning mechanical energy into magnetic energy
and magnetic energy into mechanical energy
is the magnetic energy within the Faraday tube
is the force exerted upon or by the surface element
is the velocity of the charge
is the work done by or to the charge
Inertia
(classical limit)
The magnet field in the vicinity of a moving charge
contains its kinetic energy
Magnetic energy may only move within the Faraday tubes
of the electric field
Acceleration changes the magnetic field within the tubule
This results in a movement of magnetic energy/flux
into or out of the surface element
The force on the surface element may be found by either
calculating the velocity of the flux and using Faraday's Law
or
Taking 
as the power associated with the energy change
The inertial force is
The Lorentz Contraction
This classical derivation predicts a real contraction caused by motion against the background
Lorentz failed to realise that his derivation proved
that the equipotential surfaces of 
would be contracted
The true mapping of a point in the uncontradicted field
onto itself in the contracted field is
The energy content of the electric field
remains constant
Inertia
(at near light speed)
Inertial mass is a mathematical artefact
calculated as 
The effect of the contraction within the moving system
is to increase inertial mass by a factor 
The inertial force is generated as part of an energy transfer process
In calculating 
we divide by 
Against Newtonian time, 
appears larger by a factor of 
when measured in the moving system
Therefore, we must divide by 
to get the force
exerted by the stationary system on the charge
This is mimicked by the use of contracted co-ordinates with
the magnetic field strength increased by a factor 
and dividing the final answer by 
to account for the reduced
capacity of the volume element 
Time and Clocks
The universe exists in the moment of NOW
It is in a state of flux
The past exists only as memory and record
The future is yet to exist
The universe plays out its events against
universally synchronised Newtonian time
Records of events can be described using R3+time co-ordinates
but time is not a real extended dimension
The effect of the Lorentz contraction is to increase mass
within the moving system by a factor 
This slows all time dependent processes by a factor 
Within the moving system, clocks run slow
The effects on clock speed and mass is such
as to make each other undebatable
within the moving system
Gravitational potential slows clocks
These effects on clocks are predicted by
the methods of classical physics
Relativity is superfluous
Gravity
A two dimensional model of gravity
At the point of attachment of A, the rail has a slight gradient caused by the distortion due to B
This gives a component along the rail towards B equivalent to a gravitational force
All electric fields have an internal tension
The rigidity of dielectrics opposes the tension and only a small distortion takes place
What happens with an electric field in the vacuum of space
Space must have some form of rigidity opposing the internal tension of electric fields
We would expect some distortion
But we can only extend the one dimensional model to three
if we have a fourth dimension in which the distortion occurs
When the plates of a charged air filled capacitor are moved apart
The voltage between the plates increase in proportion
Nothing else changes
Electric potential is real and the electric field of a charge
can best be understood as a four dimensional entity
The polarisation of the vacuum is the protrusion into R3
of a four dimensional phenomenon in R3+
Gravity is due to the combined distortion of space
by the internal tensions of individual charges
The effect of gravitational potential on clocks
Gravitational and electric fields are primarily Potential fields
They exert forces because of their gradient
The electric potential at the surface of a charge
is proportional to the energy stored in its electric field
The effect of a gravitational field on a charge
is to drain energy from its electric field
Half of that energy is stored in the distortion of space
The other half does work according to the change in gravitational potential
Electric field strength is reduced in the same proportion
as the energy drain from the electric field
Most clocks use a form of harmonic motion with 
proportional to 
The reduction of 
increases the period 
The clock runs slow by a factor 
Overtaking trains
Lorentz assumes a background aether
Lorentz's trains suffer real contractions
Einstein denies the existence of the stationary system
Einstein's trains do not suffer real contractions
As Einstein's carriages pass each other, they beat out
universally synchronised Newtonian time
The view from Einstein's train according to popular belief
It is claimed that the track-side and the other train appear contracted
But we need a very special camera to see this view
The strange gravitational Mass of Photons
It has long been though that
were all equal
This is an overstatement of the requirements
In fact
They need only be in the same ratio for electrons, up quarks and down quarks
Active gravitational mass 
generates gravitational fields
The forces from which we infer the existence of 
and 
are generated within the surface element of the charge
and depend on the direction of its electric field
electrons up quarks and down quarks are spherically symmetric
Photons are not
Their fields are perpendicular to their path
They have equal energy in their electric and magnetic fields
Taking these different symmetries into account
The gravitational force on a photon is perpendicular to its path
Photons climbing from the sun feel no force of gravity
and do no work against gravity
They appear read shifted because of the effect of
gravitational potential on time dependent processes
Gravitational forces
Gravitational forces act along the direction
of electric and magnetic fields
For matter composed of spherical charges
this is of little consequence
But the fields of a photon all lie in planes perpendicular to its direction of motion
The gravitational force on a photon depends on the direction of its path
and is generated within both its electric and magnetic fields
The gravitational force acts perpendicular to its path