Hello Steve!
Cheers! Hope all is cool!
Yes! I have been busy writing several books on LIGHT TIME DIMENSION THEORY which grew largely out of MDT THEORY. :)
Greetings FQXI!
LTD Theory's Postulate: The fourth dimension is expanding at c relative to the three spatial dimensions.: dx4/dt=ic
I would love to pen an article for you based on my four books pertaining to LTD Theory, which were based on my fqxi essays pertaining to Moving Dimensions Theory.
As far as I can tell:
1) nobody else has published four books pertaining to their essays (let alone a single book)
2) nobody else has yet presented a simple postulate, principle, nor equation
3) nobody has offered a proof of their principle nor postulate
4) nobody else was ever as highly recommended as I was by the legendary J.A. Wheeler
5) nobody else has answered close to as many foundational questions as LTD Theory has answered. And too, even more importantly, nobody has ASKED as many foundational questions as LTD Theory has.
6) Nobody else healed the blind with their physics Ph.D. dissertation.
Enjoy the four books on LTD Theory below! I would be happy to write an article of any length for you! Please let me know how many words and figures you would prefer!
Best,
Dr. Elliot McGucken
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https://www.amazon.com/Light-Time-Dimension-Theory-Foundational-ebook/dp/B01KP8XGQ6/
Regarding the award-winning physicist Dr. Elliot McGucken at Princeton University, the late John Archibald Wheeler stated, "More intellectual curiosity, versatility and yen for physics than Elliot McGucken's I have never seen in any senior or graduate student. . . Originality, powerful motivation, and a can-do spirit make me think that McGucken is a top bet."
LTD Theory's Postulate: The fourth dimension is expanding at c relative to the three spatial dimensions.
Proof:
1. Every entity has a velocity of c through the three spatial dimensions.
2. All observers agree that a photon has a velocity of c through the three spatial dimensions.
3. If a photon had any velocity component through the fourth dimension, its velocity would be other than c, which is impossible.
4. Ergo the velocity of the photon is zero through the fourth dimension.
5. Thus, a photon provides a tracer and tracker of the movement and character of the fourth dimension.
6. The fourth dimension is expanding at the rate of c,as is also seen in Minkowski's x4=ict (dx4/dt=ic) from which all of relativity may be derived from the invariance of the Minkowski spacetime metric. Thus the expansion of the fourth dimension naturally leads to all of relativity.
7. The expansion of the fourth dimension is the foundational cause of quantum nonlocality and thus its probability, as a photon has an equal chance of being found anywhere upon a sphere expanding at the rate of c, which is exactly how the expansion of x4 manifests itself.
8. The one-way expansion of the forth dimension provides the foundational asymmetry for time and all its arrows, as well as the second law of thermodynamics.
Thus LTD Theory's simple, foundational, physical model grants us time and all its arrows and asymmetries alongside all of relativity and quantum mechanics.
I thought you might enjoy my new books unifying quantum mechanics and relativity with a foundational, physical model. If you would like a free review copy of any or all four books, please do let me know!
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https://www.amazon.com/Light-Time-Dimension-Theory-Foundational-ebook/dp/B01KP8XGQ6/
Regarding the award-winning physicist Dr. Elliot McGucken at Princeton University, the late John Archibald Wheeler stated, "More intellectual curiosity, versatility and yen for physics than Elliot McGucken's I have never seen in any senior or graduate student. . . Originality, powerful motivation, and a can-do spirit make me think that McGucken is a top bet."
Dr. E would go on to heal the blind with his NSF-funded, award-winning Ph.D. dissertation which also laid down the foundations of Light Time Dimension Theory. Over the years, LTD Theory added foundational *physical* postulates, principles, and equations en route to becoming numerous books, with this one forming the simple, illustrated introduction.
In this commonsense volume penned for the layman and advanced scientist alike, Dr. E's LTD Theory provides a unifying, foundational *physical* model underlying relativity, quantum mechanics, time and all its arrows and asymmetries, and the second law of thermodynamics. The detailed diagrams demonstrate that the great mysteries of quantum mechanical nonlocality, entanglement, and probability naturally arise from the very same principle that fosters relativity alongside light's constant velocity, the equivalence of mass and energy, and time dilation.
One fine afternoon while Dr. E was lunching with J.A. Wheeler at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), a bespectacled gentleman joined them. Wheeler introduced the fellow as Ed Witten--one of the leading pioneers of string theory and inventor of M-theory. Dr. E had been contemplating pursuing string theory, but there were some finer details he could not wrap his head around. "Great!" Dr. E thought to himself, "This guy can help me along my odyssey!"
So halfway through lunch Dr. E asked Dr. Witten, "What are string theory's postulates, principles, and equations?"
Witten thought about it, smiled, and said, that well, it depended on who you asked, and well, it was a young theory.
So Dr. E followed up with, "When do you think string theory might get postulates, principles, and equations?" Ed stopped smiling.
And so, instead of studying string theory, Dr. E pursued LTD Theory on that "road less taken," healing the blind along the way with his award-winning dissertation titled Multiple Unit Artificial Retina Chipset to Aid the Visually Impaired and Enhanced CMOS Phototransistors. In the latter part of the dissertation, Dr. E placed the first iteration of LTD Theory, born of his days studying with the great PJE Peebles, Nobel Laureate Joseph Taylor, and J.A. Wheeler. Like Einstein and Feynman, they were all rugged, kind, intense men who valued hands-on physics and *physical* reality over mere math and mysticism--over spurious speculation and outlandish hype.
Unlike string theory, inflation, and multiverse mania, LTD Theory is a *physical* theory in the spirit of Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Faraday, Maxwell, and Einstein. At Princeton Dr. E learned to think of the geometry of spacetime as a physical entity which could bend, curve, and move. He learned to think of the photon as a real, physical entity described as probabilistic, spherically-symmetric wavefront expanding at velocity c. Dr. E learned to think of entanglement as a real, *physical* effect connecting distant entities in an instantaneous relationship, and he learned to think of the second law of thermodynamics not as a mere mathematical formula, but as a foundational, physical law governing the universe. And by thinking of these diverse phenomena in terms of *physical* pictures, Dr. E conceived of LTD Theory--the simple, physical model common to them all.
How do light, time, the quantum, and relativity all emerge from LTD Theory? Enjoy this epic odyssey as you realize the deeper, foundational, unifying, *physical* model! And too, the book is graced with Dr. E's fine art landscape photography offering a parallel *physical* celebration of light and time.
https://www.amazon.com/Relativity-Quantum-Mechanics-Unified-Pictures-ebook/dp/B01N2BCAWO/
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J.A. Wheeler: More intellectual curiosity, versatility and yen for physics than Elliot McGucken's I have never seen in any senior or graduate student. . . Originality, powerful motivation, and a can-do spirit make me think that McGucken is a top bet . . . I say this on the basis of close contacts with him over the past year and a half. . .(. -J.A. Wheeler, Princeton's Joseph Henry Professor of Physics )
Arthur Schopenhauer: Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Bernard Baruch: Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
Albert Szent-Györgyi: Genius is seeing what everyone else sees and thinking what no one else has thought.
Steve Jobs: Think different.
Early on in the book, a most simple, remarkable, revolutionary drawing is shared. The figure is Sir Isaac Newton's revolutionary drawing of a cannonball being fired off a mountaintop at the North Pole. The drawing depicts what happens as the cannonball is fired with higher and higher velocities. At first, the cannonball lands fairly close to the cannon. Then, with a higher velocity, it lands farther away upon the earth's curved surface. Ultimately, as Newton's figure shows, if the cannonball is fired with a great enough velocity, it will orbit the earth and return to point on the mountaintop from whence it began. Via a simple drawing, Newton showed that the same force which draws objects to the earth can also keep objects in orbit. And so it is that Newton's famous theory and law of universal gravitation was born.
The Greeks, from Pythagoras on down, knew the earth was round. They also knew that objects fell towards the earth. Thus Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle could have drawn Newton's figure. Bruno or Copernicus could have drawn it. Galileo could have drawn it. Kepler could have drawn it, and perhaps he should have! But none of them did. It was Newton who drew it.
Not only does this book celebrate how simple drawings have ever advanced and revolutionized physics, from Thomas Young's sketch of the double slit experiment to Faraday's sketches of the electric and magnetic fields, but it also exalts a brand new theory--Light Time Dimension Theory--exalting and advancing science by these very same, simple methods rooted in simple, physical pictures and ideas.
Just as Newton revolutionized our understanding of gravity via a remarkably simple physical picture, so did Einstein, writing, "I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me: "If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight. I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation." This simple thought lead to Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, wherein space and time bend and curve. Unlike string theory, Light Time Dimension Theory acknowledges the fact that dimensions move, and it simply extends the general principle by stipulating that the fourth dimension is expanding at the rate of c relative to the three spatial dimensions.
In the same way Newton was the first to sketch the gravitational orbits of cannonballs and Faraday was the first to sketch electric and magnetic fields and the invisible "lines of force," Dr. E the first to draw the expansion of the fourth dimension. And in doing so, he recognized that x4's expansion was responsible for the basic characteristics of quantum mechanics, relativity, and the second law of thermodynamics. Via the simple sketch, Dr. E found a doorway to the deeper physical reality underlying and unifying relativity, quantum mechanical behavior, and time's arrows and asymmetries.
Join us on this epic odyssey through not only the beautiful simplicity of science's greatest revolutionary thoughts and drawings from the likes of Feynman, Einstein, Faraday, Newton, Galileo, and Copernicus, but from Dr. E too.
https://www.amazon.com/Multiverse-Inflation-Supersymmetry-M-Theory-Pseudoscience-ebook/dp/B01N19KO3A/
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John Archibald Wheeler: More intellectual curiosity, versatility and yen for physics than Elliot McGucken's I have never seen in any senior or graduate student. . . Originality, powerful motivation, and a can-do spirit make me think that McGucken is a top bet. (J.A. Wheeler, Princeton Joseph Henry Professor of Physics)
The great Albert Einstein stated, "The development of Western Science is based on two great achievements, the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and the discovery of the possibility to find out causal relationships by systematic experiment (Renaissance)."
Unfortunately, the string theorists and multimillionaire multiverse maniacs have abandoned both experiment and formal logic. In order to sustain their failed regimes, they exiled the two pillars of Western Science, alongside simple truth and beauty. And so it is that theoretical physics ground to a halt.
But yet, hope springs eternal, and Light Time Dimension Theory, born of the noble spirit of Galileo, Newton, Faraday, and Einstein, is based on a simple postulate that has been physically observed and formally proven.
LTD's Postulate: The fourth dimension is expanding at the rate of c relative to the three spatial dimensions, or dx4/dt=ic.
From this simple postulate, a physical model emerges accounting for and exalting all of relativity, time and all its arrows and asymmetries, quantum mechanics' nonlocality, probabilities, and entanglement, and the second law of thermodynamics. Thus LTD provides a vast and resounding unification of physics, while finally characterizing the deeper nature of the stage underlying both quantum mechanics and relativity.
However, the massively failed regimes cannot admit their failure, and thus simple truth and beauty must be castigated, impugned, and exiled. But like Tom Brady and Odysseus, Dr. E just won't give up. The bold book exalts in the words and wisdom of dozens of Nobel Laureate physicists, Giants such as Newton, Galileo, Copernicus, and Einstein, and other contemporary luminaries who, although vastly outnumbered by the string theory click-bait blogger, multiverse maniacs, and televangelists of pseudoscience, take a stand with Dr. E.
So come enjoy a fantastic, heroic odyssey that not only examines the soul of science, but also exalts its higher, historical nature alongside a brand new theory born of the higher scientific spirit celebrated by Einstein and Newton.
https://www.amazon.com/Einsteins-Relativity-Derived-Theorys-Principle-ebook/dp/B06WRRJ7YG/
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Regarding the award-winning physicist Dr. Elliot McGucken at Princeton University, the late John Archibald Wheeler stated, "More intellectual curiosity, versatility and yen for physics than Elliot McGucken's I have never seen in any senior or graduate student. . . Originality, powerful motivation, and a can-do spirit make me think that McGucken is a top bet."
Leonardo da Vinci: Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
At long last, a simple, foundational theory has risen above the fray so as to finally unify relativity and quantum mechanics in a simple, physical model premised upon the principle of a fourth expanding dimension. This heavily-illustrated book delights in deriving all of Einstein's relativity, both intuitively and mathematically, from LTD Theory's simple postulate and equation. Unlike many other books, it takes us beyond the stringy swamp to new, pristine territory where simple postulates and principles again reign supreme, as they did throughout the original development of quantum mechanics and relativity. In the grand spirit of Einstein, the book celebrates the simplicity of physics, and thus makes for a straightforward, exalting read for the expert and layman alike.
Albert Einstein: A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises (LTD Theory's principle of the fourth expanding dimension), the more different are the kinds of things it relates (relativity, the quantum, time, the second law of thermodynamics, dark matter, dark energy, entanglement) and the more extended the range of its applicability.
Arthur Schopenhauer: Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Few know that Einstein yet sought a deeper foundation for his relativity. Regarding relativity, Einstein wrote, "A physical theory can be satisfactory only if its structures are composed of elementary foundations. The theory of relativity is ultimately as little satisfactory as, for example, classical thermodynamics was before Boltzmann had interpreted the entropy as probability."
At long last, Light Time Dimension Theory hath found the elementary foundations underlying not only relativity, but all of quantum mechanics too, as well as time and its arrows and asymmetries. As physics has ever been furthered via *physical* principles and postulates, as opposed to string theory press releases, LTD Theory exalts the hitherto unsung postulate of a fourth expanding dimension given by dx4/dt=ic. And the very heavens open up.
By the end of this book, you will see how LTD Theory replaces Einstein's two postulates of relativity with a simpler, more foundational principle of nature--the universal invariant of the fourth expanding dimension also seen in LTD Theory's simple equation dx4/dt=ic. And you will see that this principle has the added benefit of also providing a simple, natural, *physical* mechanism for quantum mechanics, time, and the second law of thermodynamics.
The fast-paced book takes the reader on a fantastic odyssey beginning with the simple, intuitive proofs that light remains stationary in the fourth dimension, leading to the remarkable fact that the fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions at c. Einstein's drawing of the light cone is celebrated alongside all the aspects of relativity it exalts. And too, quite remarkably, for the first time in the history of physics, the foundations of quantum mechanics are also seen in the nonlocal expansion of the light cone.
Einstein's simple, intuitive derivations of the Lorentz transformations are shared and discussed. And it is shown that the Lorentz transformations, and thus all of relativity, naturally emerge from LTD's deeper principle of a fourth expanding dimension, right alongside the quantum and time and all her one-way arrows.
Unlike the dominant string theory and multiverse mania, LTD Theory exalts in simple postulates, principles, and equations on towards exalting its epic unifications.
Enjoy the books!
Elliot :)
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