Gary D. Simpson! Thanks so much for your astute reading of my essay and your kind, insightful & encouraging comments.
"This is a very interesting essay with many novel insights."
For years now I have quietly pondered cosmological ideas. I'm thankful to FQxI for sponsoring this essay contest; it has helped me focus on getting ideas out of my head onto paper. The whole exercise has brought forth a conceptualization of Quantum Gravity (page 6) that is SO clear now that I'm certain it's on the right track.
"The many illustrations add a lot of flavor also. Physics could really use an artist right now."
Thanks for noticing. I wish you were on the "How things Happen" RFQ Selection Committee. I had hoped that this essay would spring board me into a project to create illustrations/animations/simulations of quantum phenomena, including Quantum Gravity. (Check out www.bugman123.com, I wanted to team up with Paul Nylander on that project. Oh well, too bad my proposal was turned down.)
"There was enough material here for half a dozen more detailed essays."
Solving this system has been like solving a set of simultaneous equations - at some point I had to grasp all 3 Relativity Theories and probabilistic nature of quantum wave mechanics. That's also why I left a link to my website to expound upon the many facets of the material.
(See http://MysteriesOfTheUniverse.info/UnifyingQuantumGravity+EM.htm )
"I can almost imagine what Paul Dirac would be like on a sugar rush."
For 1 full month I put "life" on hold while I pushed myself to mental exhaustion 2-3 times a day. Squeezing years of ideas into 10.75 pages, I then spent a week trimming/squeezing to less than 25k characters - thus creating the Dirac on a Sugar Rush Effect (DSRE). During that time Quantum Gravity became clearer, yet how to clearly describe exponential time perceptions using a logarithmical slowing clock still eluded me. As important as it was to strive for perfection, mental fatigue left a few fixable flaws.
Page 1: Question 3's Solution would read more accurately as: Our SI values for Planck-(length, time, mass) are covariant, maybe more. (It was too early in the text to introduce such a delicate subject. The problem being that if Max Planck had defined Planck-mass in terms of Planck-mass per Planck-time. -then during Planck/Einstein conversations Quantum Gravity could have been REALIZED 100 years ago!)
Page 6: Equation (12) needs either a "1/" in front, or flip the right fraction upside down.
"You should read the essay by Colin Walker. He discusses tired light."
I like Colin Walker's perspective it parallels mine in several key aspects: what he calls tired light energy loss, I call Cosmological redshift -- effectively being a measure of time dilation. I'd like to try translating some of his math into my Space~Time framework. My assertion that we need to scale clock-rates along with space in FLRW-metric means that I/we have to rethink a lot of other math. Is "Hubble's Constant" constant? I don't know yet how to this will all come together, but my initial impressions are that our approaches could meet somewhere in the middle -- each contributing important pieces to this Cosmic Puzzle.