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Created on: April 23, 2008 Last Updated: April 24, 2008
The Oldster in the Casino
The old man had spent his dollar in the video lottery machine. He walked over to the bar counter, poured himself a cup of coffee and commented to the young lady behind the counter," I finally figured out why Einstein could never put together a Unified Field Theory. He threw away the field before he started." He continued, "You see, he assumed that there was nothing in space. As a mathematician who said, "Mathematics is the reality," or at least so the story goes, he should have known better. Math. considers all space as being full of dots. I put the field back in and think that I know pretty well what is going on. I said, "What, not when, where, why or who..."
Somewhat intrigued, or, at least pretending to be, the young lady at the bar asked, "What is there, then?"
All of space is filled by tiny separable oscillators, which have arranged themselves into larger oscillators. The little ones may be what we call "neutrinos," the most common ones seem to be separable oscillators which can be separated into electrons and anti-electrons or be distorted by shock waves such as the one behind which we live into neutrons which fall apart into electrons and protons. " These can join in many ways but not to the original oscillator so as to be 'annihilated' in the way the electron and anti-electron can. "
"How do you know all this is true."
"I don't know; but, the more I work with the ideas and apply them to the world around us, the more things fit in. Thus far, I haven't found any contradictions. I started out from realizing that the speed of light was a limiting velocity of information transfer. Information moves person to person, unit to unit. Logically there had to be something there in space to move information. Just as in math., what is there could be called a 'dot matrix.'
My next step was to ask: What are 'mass' and 'energy' and why are they inter-convertible? The one thing common to everything is motion. Motion around a point, 'mass' and motion along a line, 'energy.' O.K., then, every thing should be accounted for if we can describe the 'Motion in a Matrix.' Going back to the speed of light, it would appear that it could be understood that this is the average velocity of all the motions of any kind in any direction. Mass has to be related to a point. That turns out to be best explained as the observed difference between the inward pressure of the whole matrix on something and the outward pressure of the part of the matrix inside the object.
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