Dear Madam,
Madam MARINA V VASILYEVA recommended your essay to us.
We have proved in many threads here and elsewhere without contradiction that the equivalence principle is a wrong description of reality and leads to Russell's paradox of set theory. Till date no experiment has conclusively proved the equivalence of inertial mass with gravitational mass and all claims in this regard can be explained otherwise. In fact, the inertial mass concept came from the erroneous claims of length contraction and time dilation. Two possibilities suggested by Einstein to measure the length of a moving rod were either to move with the rod and measure its length or take a photograph of the two ends of the moving rod and measure the length in the scale at rest frame. In the first method, there is no change. However, the second method, advocated by Einstein, is faulty because if the length of the rod is small or velocity is small, then length contraction will not be perceptible according to his formula. If the length of the rod is big or velocity is comparable to that of light, then light from different points of the rod will take different times to reach the recording device and the picture we get will be distorted due to different Doppler shift.
The concept of relativity is valid only between two objects. Introduction of a third object brings in the concept of privileged frame of reference and all equations of relativity fall. Yet, Einstein precisely does the same while claiming the very opposite. In his 30th June, 1905 paper, he treated the clock at A as a privileged frame of reference for proving synchronization of the clocks at B and C. Yet, he claims it is relative!
Length contraction is only apparent from the stationary frame and cannot be real for the moving frame. What the man on the platform sees cannot affect the train. The passenger on the train will not notice any length contraction. However, time dilation is real in a different sense. All experiments conducted to prove time dilation are defective. Data from the first experiment available in US naval archives proves that it was fudged (proved in our thread). The GPS result can be explained by the difference in refractive index of the Earth's atmosphere and outer space through which the light signal travels. Time dilation has meaning only in relative terms of cyclic evolutionary sequences. The evolutionary cycles are different for different categories or different species of the same category. Their evolution over universal time (Einstein's clock at A) can lead to comparative time dilation. The perihelion of Mercury was explained by Gerber much before Einstein. Thus, it is no wonder that GR fails beyond the Saturn's orbit (Pioneer Anomaly).
Newton held that both the Earth and the tree with the apple were at rest. The apple falls to Earth due to gravity. Einstein said that the space between the apple and the Earth curved, so that the apple came to Earth. If mass caused the space to curve, then why the entire tree did not curve? After all, in gravitation, the mass of a body is treated as point mass. The answer to this question is, GR is wrong. Minkowski was experimenting with the curvature of metal plates when heated. Einstein used this idea in GR. But gravity is not localized like heat - it is universal.
Have you ever wondered the difference between force and energy? Free on-line dictionary defines force as "The capacity to do work or cause physical change; energy, strength, or active power" in the general category, but changes to "A vector quantity that tends to produce an acceleration of a body in the direction of its application" in the physics category. The same dictionary defines energy as "The capacity for work or vigorous activity; vigor; power" and "The capacity of a physical system to do work" in general and physics category respectively. The word "capacity to cause" physical change means, energy in its stored or potential state is force. In its kinetic state (vigorous activity), it is interaction and after it ceases to act, it is action. Though the three are only evolutionary states of the same thing, they are physically different.
Gravity is a "force" that stabilizes orbits between interacting bodies, when both bodies circle around a point called barycenter. If you take the distance from this point to the centers of each body, draw a square of that length and distribute the mass of the two bodies in the reverse field, you will find some interesting results. We leave it to you for working it out so that you can draw your own conclusions. For this reason, gravity is closer to magnetism. Bodies with strong magnetic fields exhibit high gravitational potential also. On the other hand, strong, weak, electromagnetic interactions and radioactive disintegration are caused by "energy". Unlike magnetism or gravity, these are associated with high temperature. Unlike gravity, these four are governed by different combinations of proximity-distance variables (proximity-proximity, proximity-distance, distance-proximity and distance-distance) between the two bodies involved in interaction. Since both belong to different classes, they have not been unified by any of the present day theories. This shows that there is some inherent defect in modern theories that need rectification. (We hold gravity as a composite of 7 different forces. In its role for structure formation, these are called acceleration due to gravity and in its role for displacement, these are called gravity.)
All 'novel' concepts of Wheeler are good fiction, but not physics. Knowledge of an object does determine its existence (we cannot have knowledge about something that does not exist), but may not determine its position at here-now (the concept of zero). Nothing arise ex-nihilo. But quarks give rise to protons and neutrons, atoms to molecules and molecules to the macro world. What gave rise to quarks - we have briefly discussed in our essay.
Both space and time are emergent properties born out of the perception of sequence. While space is the interval between the ordered sequences of objects that also is the background structure, time is the interval between the ordered sequences of events, i.e., changes in structures by energy. Both are information or data depending upon the context. Dynamics is not of space, but related to objects in space. We treat energy as that which moves mass. In that respect energy is one type, which becomes 5 types due to its interaction with mass. These are the strong, weak, electromagnetic interactions, radioactive disintegration and gravity. We have described the mechanism in various threads without contradiction. Regarding "how 'matter' may emerge from harmonic oscillations within the vibrating primordial substrate", we had described it in our essay: "INFORMATION HIDES IN THE GLARE OF REALITY by basudeba mishra http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/1776" published on May 31.
Axiom 1: Space is the interval between objects - hence it can be conserved only as a background structure. Mass and energy are conserved.
Axiom 2 & 4: There cannot be a cube of nothing. Space inside a box is like water inside a sunken box. Hence it cannot be quantized. You also admit that space quanta are contiguous and continuous.
Axiom 3: A quantum of space does not vibrates harmonically, but the field or the background structure vibrate due to flow of energy.
Axiom 5: Time is analog, but we use segments of it as digital.
Regards,
basudeba