Thank you for taking time to respond to this piece, the kind words are appreciated. This work had its origins at an astronomy presentation back in about 1981. Circumstance had a presentation describing black holes and the phenomenon of infalling matter into the hole being stretched as well as heated by gravity. It so happened, by turning your back to the black hole presentation, on the opposite wall was an illustration of the doppler effect from a sound emitting device swung about on a string, the sound being compressed (blue-shifted) as the device approached and stretched (red-shifted) as the device receded in its circular path. Between the two displays, a synthesis developed, the acceleration that is gravity, given time and distance enough would look exactly like that of an expanding universe that the 'Big Bang' posits without having the problems of shifting 'one universe' to do so. The cosmic background radiation was fairly easy, considering the galaxy as a gravitational point (not collapsing) source the CBR was what heating the galaxy's mass might produce. The third leg was the hardest, the distribution of H, He and Li. The 'BB' posited great concentrations of heat/energy, how would the opposite achieve the same? It was the Einstein/Boise condensate that eventually drew attention by its properties. Could this condensate be brought to low enough temperatures to ice? Maybe not in the present conditions but if the universe started off cold and what is presently is an accumulation of all energy production over the life of the universe, the condensate may at lower temperatures been fragile and the act of shattering provided enough energy to produce the early elements in their observed ratios, the idea fit the observations. Time, if defined as a function of changes to Space removed many constraints as well as freeing up the 4th geometric dimension to be used as a way to account for other phenomena (e.g. photons) as well as quantum descriptions applied to a 3 dimensional world. Once these issues were in place, then it became possible to place a jar of gravity on the laboratory shelf for the first time. Chancing all in the face of finding the Higgs Boson, gravity as well as mass is a result of stable particles incorporating space. The only requirement is that space is quantum. Most all the mathematics of physics is still valid, only its interpretation differs and the investment in education is otherwise sound.
In 1981 a question appeared, and like the ear-worm of some tune, worked its way and eventually produced the si-fi story presented. The inertia of education will not alter course easily, my estimate has another 300 years, but it does provide an insight to what the future holds, a look at a far and distant land that I will not live to see.
