Description
A simple, elegant theory of gravity that necessarily follows from revised perspectives on mass, light-speed and spacetime will be presented. It still has time changing with both movement and gravitational potential of massive objects, but “space” (distance) is not contracted. Lorentz invariance, as originally proposed, requires the length of objects to be reduced; not the length of empty “space” between objects. A consequence is that many other inversions of properties are demanded. For example, the energy levels of atoms are blueshifted at higher gravitational potentials rather than massless photons being redshifted. Matter gains energy from the work done, against gravity, when separating mass further from other mass. The mass of the same matter increases. As Einstein said, mass is simply stored energy. Immediate consequences include that clock-rate and oscillation frequency are proportional to gravitational potential while light-speed is in inverse proportion. This demands that distant supernovae will be further away than expected, per unit time since emission, when assuming a constant light-speed. The correction accurately removes all evidence for an accelerating expansion while explaining the cause of apparent dark energy. The changes in understanding also remove singularities inside black holes; overcome the flatness and horizon problems, and appear able to remove the need for dark matter. The remarkable conclusions reached are that the universe is not expanding and that observations, including nuclei abundances, do not require a big bang. These numerous challenges to the current consensus model of cosmology are not made lightly or without evidence. Hence, an outline will be given of how and why the revised understandings can still reproduce all the predictions claimed by general relativity’s warped spacetime. It is hoped that this oral presentation will stimulate critical examination of the arguments, evidence and possible tests, as detailed in an exposition downloadable from the web.
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