Global and Local Gauge Symmetries: Part II (Gravitation, Section A)

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“Local gauge symmetry currents” are forces that maintain the local invariance of universal constants, charges, and other conserved parameters (such as causality and the “Interval”) despite the hostile environment of a variable gravitational (or inertial) metric, relative rather than absolute motion, entropy, partial charges, etc. These compensatory forces are due to the activity of the field vectors of the four forces, which not only act (in the long term) to return these asymmetric material systems to their original symmetric state (light), but also act (in the short term) to protect and maintain the invariant values of their symmetry debts (charges), while awaiting a final repayment via antimatter annihilation, proton decay, the “quantum radiance” of black holes, or a universal “Big Crunch”. Gravity pays the entropy-“interest” on the symmetry debt of matter by creating matter’s time dimension via the annihilation of space, providing a historical domain within which charge conservation can have significance, and the repayment of symmetry debts can be indefinitely deferred. Gravitation eventually also pays the energy-“principle” on matter’s symmetry debt, converting bound energy to free energy in stars and via Hawking’s “quantum radiance” of black holes, completely vanishing mass and its associated gravitational field.

Global and Local Gauge Symmetries: Part II (Gravitation) (Section A) 

John A. Gowan
(Revised April, 2011)
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Related Papers:

Global-Local Gauge Symmetries and the “Tetrahedron Model” (part 1)
Global-Local Gauge Symmetries in Gravitation (part 2)
Global-Local Gauge Symmetries in the Weak Force (part 3)
Global-Local Gauge Symmetries and the “Tetrahedron Model” (part 4)
Global-Local Gauge Symmetries and the “Tetrahedron Model” (part 5)

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Global and Local Gauge Symmetries: Gravitation, Section A

Preface

Because gravity is a metric, dimensional force, in order to apply the usual global-local analysis to this most universal of local forces, we begin by considering the fact that if the spacetime metric were the same everywhere there would be no gravitational force. According to Einstein, gravity is a distortion of the global electromagnetic (spacetime) metric, as gauged by “velocity c”. Suppose we were able to create a local change in the metric centered on matter (for example, slowing local clocks and shortening local meter sticks), what would the effect be upon the surrounding global metric? The effect would be a gravitational force field, with spacetime rushing symmetrically toward the center of the disturbance to repair and restore the global metric equilibrium. The reasons for this inrush of spacetime are several and related: 1) spacetime moves toward a lower potential energy region of the metric (where the magnitude of the local metric gauge is reduced); 2) spacetime reacts to restore its metric symmetry and uniformity; 3) spacetime moves to protect the invariance of causality, the “Interval”, and velocity “c”.

In consequence of this inrush of spacetime, we find that velocity c, the “Interval”, and causality remain invariant everywhere, despite the gravitationally disturbed (variable) metric. The gravitational flow constitutes a “local gauge symmetry current” caused by the one-way intrinsic motion of bound energy’s (matter’s) time dimension. Time, the entropy drive of bound energy, exits space at right angles into the historic domain, pulling space along behind it. Space self-annihilates at the center of mass, leaving a metrically equivalent temporal residue. Hence time and gravity endlessly induce each other, as gravity converts the spatial entropy drive of free electromagnetic energy (the intrinsic motion of light) into the historical entropy drive of bound electromagnetic energy (the intrinsic motion of time). (See: “The Conversion of Space to Time”.)

The covariance of space and time conspire to maintain the invariance of velocity c, the “Interval”, and causality (“Lorentz Invariance”), conforming to our expectation for the action of a local gauge symmetry force field: a global invariance is maintained despite a variable environment. In the gravitational case, the variable environment is the metric field of spacetime itself, with time as the local gauge symmetry field vector. The ultimate motivation (rationale) for gravitation is the conservation of light’s non-local distributional symmetry in space, as required by Noether’s Theorem. (See:“A Rationale for Gravity”.) The time dimension of matter is an entropic “charge” (a charge with intrinsic dimensional motion) addressing light’s non-local distributional symmetry debt, incurred when free electromagnetic energy is converted into bound electromagnetic energy in any form or process. The charges of matter are the symmetry debts of light. The gravitational symmetry debt is ultimately repaid by the conversion of mass/matter to light in stars, going to completion via Hawking’s “quantum radiance” of black holes. (See: “A Description of Gravitation”.)


As Einstein taught us, gravity is a metric force and phenomenon – that is, gravity is a force affecting the dimensions and their relations to each other. From this we have learned that “clocks run slow” and “meter sticks shrink” in a gravitational field, and that the one-way flow of gravity is toward the slowest (local) clock and shortest (local) meter stick – this apparently being the direction of “cheapest” energy.

The “global” or absolute metric, however, is not a gravitational metric, but an electromagnetic metric, established, regulated, maintained, and “gauged” or scaled by the universal electromagnetic constant “c” (one second of temporal duration is metrically equivalent to 300,000 kilometers of linear distance). The “velocity” of light (“c”) is in fact both a gauge of the “non-local” symmetric energy state of light and metric symmetry (the intrinsic motion of light vanishes time and distance), and the gauge of the entropy drive of light and space (the intrinsic motion of light both creates space and causes the expansion and cooling of space). The metric of spacetime regulates space as an energy-conserving domain for light (free electromagnetic energy), and is apparently part and parcel of light – light (photons) being the energy form, the metric being the conservation structure created by and embedded within the energy form. The intrinsic motion of light creates, expands, and cools the spatial domain, and so serves not only to create the spatial domain, but provides the primordial entropy drive of free electromagnetic energy and space as well. Finally, the symmetric structure of space is maintained by inertial forces associated with energy conservation laws (“Noether’s Theorem”), while the asymmetric time dimension, always present as a potential threat, is suppressed at velocity c (light’s “clock” is stopped).

In fact, time can be seen as the implicit driver of the intrinsic motion of the photon (time is implicitly present as “frequency”); the photon may be conceived as “fleeing” the asymmetric threat of time, and just managing to keep ahead of and suppress time by always moving at velocity c. Velocity c is the gauge of light’s “non-local” symmetric energy state, in which both time and distance (in the direction of motion) are reduced to nothing. The photon consequently, having no distance to travel, and forever to get there, has an effectively “infinite” velocity. The “non-local” spatial distributional symmetry of the photon derives from this “infinite” velocity, and from its lack of two dimensions, which means in either a 3 or 4 dimensional space or spacetime, the photon’s coordinates or “location” cannot be specified. Light is the most symmetric form of energy, having neither mass, charge, location, time, nor an associated gravitational field. Einstein expressed light’s symmetric energy state mathematically by putting light’s “Interval” equal to zero.

This is the electromagnetic metric which gravity will modify or “warp” by adding explicit time to it – the same time that is already implicitly present as the driver of light’s intrinsic motion. Given the presence of free electromagnetic energy, we can say that energy conservation, symmetry conservation, and entropy are the root cause of light’s intrinsic motion, creating also space and the spatial metric. Light is not only the most symmetric energy form, but also the only one which is self-sufficient (or “primary”), in that it produces its own entropy drive (intrinsic motion), its own conservation domain and metric structure (space). Virtual particles (“quantum fluctuations”) are also associated with light and light’s metric structure. Hence, while light is symmetric and primary, it is not especially simple. All other forms of energy are secondary, derived from light’s energy and conservation metric.

When free electromagnetic energy (light) is converted to bound electromagnetic energy (mass-matter) during the “Big Bang”, there is a conservation requirement for the explicit form of the time dimension, both to service the energy accounts of matter in relative (rather than absolute) motion, and also to serve as bound energy’s entropy drive. (See: “The Time Train“.) Recall this is the same time dimension that is implicitly present in space and light as the driver of the photon’s intrinsic motion (seen most directly in the “frequency” component of the electromagnetic wave). Einstein (and Minkowski) taught us that space is really spacetime, and when light is converted to matter, the implicit temporal component of space becomes explicit, producing time and spacetime. This conversion from implicit time to explicit time is accomplished by the gravitational annihilation of space and the extraction of a metrically equivalent temporal residue. (See: “The Conversion of Space to Time“.)

Big G and Little g

The universal gravitational constant (“big G”) is the global gauge constant of a local, temporal metric. The magnitude of “big G” determines how much space must be converted to time (per given mass) to provide the historical entropy drive of bound energy. The magnitude of “G” is determined by the energy difference between the implicit vs explicit form of time. The energy of “G” is negative because it takes energy to convert the symmetric “all-way” spatial entropy drive of free energy to the asymmetric “one-way” historical entropy drive of bound energy – it takes energy to create an asymmetric entropy drive from a symmetric one.

Because time is created directly from space (by gravity), these two entropy drives are automatically equilibrated – they are metric equivalents of one another. The expansion of history and the “velocity of time” is metrically equivalent to the expansion of space and the “velocity of light”: “time flies”. Historical spacetime is a single, entropic unit, aging and expanding, decaying and cooling, created and held together by gravitation. Finally, spacetime is a completely natural and integrated compound metric because time and space are both implicitly present in the basic electromagnetic energy form which creates spacetime: frequency (time) multiplied by wavelength (space) = velocity “c”. (See: “A Spacetime Map of the Universe“.)

The universal gravitational constant “Big G” is a global gauge imposed upon another global gauge, the universal electromagnetic constant “c”, together producing the compound metric of spacetime. Because velocity c and the electromagnetic metric are responsible for regulating or gauging all the essential conservation parameters of the Cosmos, including energy conservation, symmetry conservation, entropy, and causality, tampering with or modifying the electromagnetic metric is no trivial matter. Gravitation is accordingly heavily constrained in how it may modify the symmetric spatial metric.

First of all, gravitation must produce time directly from space, and time must be inherent in the basic conservation structure and energetic makeup of space – as we have seen (no foreign elements are introduced to the metric). Secondly, gravity can not change the value of the gauge constant c, since that would affect all aspects of energy conservation, including causality, entropy, and charge conservation. Thirdly, gravity must itself be an energy-conserving operation locally – as we see in the spherically symmetric self-annihilating spatial flow of a gravitational field (for example, the Earth’s gravitational field does not impart any net spatial motion to the Earth). Finally, the gravitational field energy must come from somewhere and return to somewhere – must be a conserved form of energy in the cyclic global economy of the Cosmos. This we find in the gravitational deceleration of the spatial expansion of the Cosmos, which in fact funds the historical expansion of the Cosmos (via the actual gravitational conversion of space to time). Eventually, because the gravitational “location” charge is conserved, the conversion of bound energy to free energy in stars (via Hawking’s “quantum radiance” of black holes) returns matter to light, and returns the gravitational metric and field energy to the electromagnetic metric and field energy – conserving light’s original “non-local” symmetric energy state – in full and final obedience to “Noether’s Theorem” of symmetry conservation.

The “local gauge symmetry current” associated with gravitation is the flow of spacetime which we identify as the activity of a gravitational field – not only the flow of space but also the flow of time. We can think of “little g” as characterizing local, variable gravitational metrics, demonstrated by the several planets of our solar system, each with different “surface gravity” and hence with different surface clock rates and overall spacetime metrics. Nevertheless, on all these different planets, causality, energy conservation, symmetry conservation, and entropy are all strictly observed, velocity c and Einstein’s “Interval” remain invariant, despite differences in their local gravitational metrics, thanks to the covariance of space and time (“Lorentz Invariance” of General Relativity), and the “local gauge symmetry current” which we recognize as the spacetime flow of a gravitational field. A gravitational field is the spatial consequence of the intrinsic motion of time. (Nothing about gravity is hidden except its twofold conservation purpose in the latter-day Cosmos: to provide the metric and entropic conservation requirements of bound energy (historic spacetime), and to return the asymmetric system of matter to its symmetric origins – light.) (See: “Entropy, Gravitation, and Thermodynamics“.)

The Double Conservation Role of Gravitation

The primordial conservation role of gravity is to provide negative energy sufficient to exactly balance the positive energy of the “Creation Event”, so the universe can be born from a state of zero net energy as well as zero net charge (the latter due to the equal admixture of matter with antimatter). All subsequent conservation roles of gravity are secondary to and derived from this original creation-role.

Following on from its primary role of providing negative energy during the “Big Bang”, gravity plays two further major conservation roles in the evolving universe: 1) the creation of bound energy’s time dimension (energy/entropy conservation role); 2) the conservation of light’s “non-local” distributional symmetry (symmetry conservation role). In creating time, gravity also creates matter’s primordial entropy drive, and the basis for matter’s causal linkage. The time dimension also provides a domain in which charge conservation can have application and historical significance. Gravitation affects all four conservation corners of the “Tetrahedron Model“. The symmetry conservation role of gravitation can be seen as temporally deferred charge conservation involving the “location” charge of gravity. Time is the active component of gravity’s “location” charge, identifying the 4-D coordinate position of bound energy with respect to the total amount and concentration of mass/matter present. Unlike the other conserved charges of matter, time is a charge with intrinsic dimensional motion – an entropic charge, creating and expanding the historic domain, the conservation dimension containing matter’s causal information network, web, or “matrix”. (See: “The Double Conservation Role of Gravitation“.)

Entropy debts are equivalent to energy debts and must be paid immediately, so gravity immediately converts the intrinsic motion of light to the intrinsic motion of time, conserving the entropy drive of free electromagnetic energy as the entropy drive of bound electromagnetic energy. Symmetry debts in the form of charges, however, can be discharged or paid at any future time (due to charge conservation); the universe of matter and time runs on the credit card or promissory note of charge conservation. Gravity pays the entropy-interest on matter’s symmetry debt by creating the time dimension in which charge conservation can have meaning. The energy which funds the historical expansion is debited from the spatial expansion, which decelerates accordingly. The first indication of gravity’s deferred symmetry conservation role is seen in the Sun and stars, where bound energy (mass-matter) is gravitationally converted to free energy (light). This process goes to completion in Hawking’s “quantum radiance” of black holes, fulfilling “Noether’s Theorem” of symmetry conservation. (See: “A Description of Gravitation”.)

We see a progression of local gravitational metrics of greater and greater intensity passing from planets to stars to white dwarfs to neutron stars to black holes, where “little g” (the gauge of the local gravitational metric) approaches and finally equals “c”, restoring in an equivalent but backhanded fashion the essential elements of the original electromagnetic metric. At the black hole’s “event horizon”, where “g” = “c”, matter itself moves at “velocity c”, time stands still, and meter sticks shrink to nothing, just as in the original electromagnetic metric involving only photons. Inside the black hole, proton decay is commonplace as gravity squeezes baryons and quarks into elementary leptonic units of charge, which undergo leptonic decays via leptoquark antineutrinos. Outside the black hole, via Hawking’s “quantum radiance”, the gravitational field energy of the black hole is directly converted to light, a process eventually transforming the entire mass energy of the black hole to free electromagnetic radiation. This is actually accomplished by the direct gravitational creation of matter-antimatter particle pairs from the spacetime metric, apparently a reprise of the original creation of matter during the “Big Bang”. The gravitational conversion of mass to light also reduces the total gravitational energy of the Universe (since light produces no gravitational field), resulting in the recently observed “acceleration” of the cosmic spatial expansion.

Evidently it is a general rule that symmetry conservation is not fully consummated until the local “metric” or symmetry gauge assumes the form or magnitude of the global metric or symmetry gauge from which it is derived.

The Origin of Gravitation as a Conservation Force
The charges of matter are the symmetry debts of light.

Gravity is a conservation force which arises in response to symmetry losses or deficits in two intertwined “gauge” (regulatory) functions of light’s “non-local” symmetric energy state – losses consequent upon the conversion of light to matter, or free to bound energy forms, as in the “Big Bang”, or simply in the capture of a photon by the electron shell of an atom. According to “Noether’s Theorem”, reductions in light’s symmetric energy state must be compensated by some conservation force, usually seen in the form of a conserved charge or inertial force. Light’s symmetry losses when converted to bound energy forms are manifold, but those specifically addressed by gravitation include: 1) the spatial entropy drive of light (light’s intrinsic motion, regulating the creation, expansion, and cooling of spacetime); 2) the “non-local” energy state of light (regulating the symmetric distribution of free energy in spacetime). Both functions are consequences of light’s intrinsic motion, as gauged by the electromagnetic constant “c” (light’s intrinsic motion serves as the primordial spatial entropy drive, and creates space and the spatial metric, the conservation domain of free energy).

The universal gravitational constant “G” is the entropy conversion gauge, regulating how much space must be annihilated and converted to time (per given mass) to provide matter with its requisite historical entropy drive, locally expressed as “velocity T”, but globally gauged by “velocity c”. Time is produced by the gravitational annihilation of space and the extraction of a metrically equivalent temporal residue. The intrinsic motion of time is the primordial entropy drive of bound energy, creating the historic conservation domain of information and matter’s “causal matrix” (historic spacetime). (Time is also ultimately gauged by c, since “velocity T” is defined as the duration (measured by a clock) required for light to travel a given distance (measured by a meter stick). “G” is therefore related to “c” through their common factor time, and as entropy is related to energy.) Time is a local and flexible dimensional gauge, produced by the gravitational annihilation of space. Both G and c are globally invariant gauge constants. “c” gauges the spatial metric of free energy (including the entropic expansion of space). “G” gauges the historic spacetime metric, the spatial metric as it is modified by time and the conservation requirements of bound energy.

The magnitude of G measures the small energetic difference between the symmetric spatial entropy drive (S) of free energy (the intrinsic motion of light as gauged by “velocity c”), and the asymmetric historical entropy drive (T) of bound energy (the intrinsic motion of matter’s time dimension, also gauged by “c”):

S – T = -G

Equivalently, -G is the energetic difference between implicit and explicit time. It takes energy to create asymmetric one-way temporal entropy from “all-way” symmetric spatial entropy. This entropy-energy cost of creating time is the origin of the “negative energy” characteristic of gravity and the negative sign of “-G”. (See: “Gravity Diagram No. 2” and “ The Conversion of Space to Time“).

The intrinsic motion of light produces space and the expansion and cooling of space; hence the intrinsic motion of light is the primordial entropy drive of free energy. (See: “Spatial vs Temporal Entropy“.) It is the function of entropy (in its primordial mode) to create a dimensional conservation domain in which its energy source, whether free or bound (light or matter), can exist and be transformed, used, and conserved: this is the relationship between the 1st and 2nd laws of thermodynamics. Because both the spatial entropy drive and spatially symmetric (“non-local”) energy state of light are gauged by c (both are consequences of light’s intrinsic motion), “Noether’s Theorem” will automatically require the conservation of light’s entropy drive in any transformation in which light’s non-local symmetry must be conserved – as in the conversion of free to bound energy, and/or the creation of matter. Conserving either role of light’s intrinsic motion – as the source of light’s entropy drive, or the creator of light’s non-local symmetric energy state – conserves the other role by default. (See: “The Double Conservation Role of Gravitation“.)

One of gravity’s several conservation roles concerns the spatial entropy drive of free energy (the intrinsic motion of light), which gravity conserves by transforming light’s intrinsic motion to the historical entropy drive of bound energy (the intrinsic motion of time). Time is created by gravity via the annihilation of space and the extraction of a metrically equivalent temporal residue, resulting in the deceleration of the spatial expansion of the Cosmos. Because the spatial expansion is driven by the intrinsic motion of light, it is light’s spatial entropy drive (S), which ultimately funds matter’s historical entropy drive (T). We can represent this transformation by a “concept equation”:

-Gm(S) = (T)m
-Gm(S) – (T)m = 0

This “concept equation” represents an entropic conservation loop between space (created by light), and time (created by gravity). The loop continues through the gravitational conversion of mass to light in stars (which essentially reverses this equation), reducing the stars’ mass and associated gravitational energy and resulting in the “acceleration” of the spatial expansion of the Cosmos (as recently observed). The equation also suggests that time, as Einstein noted, is a local characteristic of gravitating mass: (T)m is different for Earth, Mars, Jupiter, the Sun, etc., not only in quantity and intensity, but also in its metric effect (on clock rate, for example).

(See: “Currents of Entropy and Symmetry“.)

Non-Local Light and “c” vs Local Matter and “G”

“Velocity c” is the gauge of both the primordial, spatial entropy drive of light, and the spatially symmetric “non-local” energy state of light (free electromagnetic energy). “Non-locality” is due to the fact, discovered by Einstein, that light has no time dimension and no spatial dimension in the direction of its motion. In Einstein’s mathematical formulation of this symmetry, the “Interval” of light = zero. Within its own reference frame, the energy of any individual photon (quantum of light) is distributed uniformly, everywhere, simultaneously. This symmetry in the spatial distribution of light’s energy is a consequence of light’s “non-locality”, and according to Noether’s Theorem, “non-locality” is a symmetry of light which must be conserved.

Einstein’s “Interval” is an invariant quantity of spacetime (in any reference frame) whose function is to rescue causality from the shifting dimensional perspectives of Einstein’s Special and General Relativity – the relative and variable motions of matter and the metric “warping” of gravity. Massless 2-D light is non-local, atemporal, and acausal; massive 4-D matter is local, temporal, and causal.

Light is a 2-dimensional transverse wave whose intrinsic motion sweeps out a third spatial dimension. Lacking both a time dimension and one spatial dimension (in its direction of propagation), light’s position in 3-dimensional space or 4-dimensional spacetime cannot be specified. Since both time and distance are meaningless to light, light has in effect an infinite amount of time to go nowhere. Hence in its own reference frame (moving freely in spacetime (vacuum) at velocity c), light must be considered to be everywhere simultaneously. From this results the “non-local” character of light, light’s zero “Interval”, light’s effectively “infinite” velocity, and the globally symmetric distribution of light’s energy.

The charges of matter are the symmetry debts of light, and light’s “non-local” distributional and metric symmetry is conserved through the “location” charge of gravitation, of which time is the active principle. The time “charge” and the gravitational field it induces identify energetically the specifiable (and hence asymmetric) location of immobile, undistributed, “rest mass” energy in 4-D spacetime, including the quantity and density of the distributional symmetry violation – the local concentration of matter. Einstein’s “Interval” of mass is always greater than zero, due to the presence of time and a third spatial dimension. The time charge breaks the metric symmetry condition of light’s “zero Interval”, establishing the gravitational metric symmetry debt of bound energy (the warpage of space due to the intrinsic motion of time). Because time is an “entropic” charge (a charge – unlike any other – with intrinsic dimensional motion), the spatial “location” symmetry debt is combined with an asymmetric (one-way) temporal entropy drive. Both debts are dimensional or metric in character. The one-way character of time is necessary not only for reasons of causality and energy conservation, but also to break the otherwise symmetric metric of space, specifying the actual 4-D location of bound energy amidst the isomorphic and entropic spatial expansion.

Gravity (eventually) restores (conserves) the non-local spatial symmetry of light by the conversion of bound to free energy in stars, quasars, supernovas, and other astrophysical processes, culminating in the complete gravitational conversion of matter to light via Hawking’s “quantum radiance” of black holes, in full satisfaction of the symmetry conservation requirements of Noether’s Theorem. The conversion of bound to free energy pays the entropy debt simultaneously with the symmetry debt, since light is both atemporal and non-local. The gravitational field “evaporates” along with the mass of the black hole, signifying the final and full payment of gravity’s symmetry and entropy debt.

If the purpose of a metric is energy conservation – as it clearly must be – why is the gravitational metric necessary to address this issue? The gravitational metric is necessary to provide negative energy to balance the positive energy of bound electromagnetic energy (mass/matter). It is the exact balance between the positive rest mass energy of matter and the negative energy of matter’s gravitational field which allows the creation of matter from zero net energy during the “Big Bang”. This is the third and perhaps the most fundamental conservation role of gravity, addressing the upper vertex of the “Tetrahedron Model” diagram.

We have seen the conservation role of gravity with respect to the four conservation parameters of the “Tetrahedron Model”: entropy (converting light’s intrinsic motion to time’s intrinsic motion), symmetry (the conversion of bound to free energy), causality (the creation of time and historic spacetime, and including “Lorentz Invariance”), and finally energy itself (providing negative energy to balance matter’s positive energy). All these roles are intimately connected and related to the regulatory or “gauge” functions of “velocity c”. Negative gravitational energy is provided by an imploding rather than exploding spatial metric, which in turn is caused by the intrinsic motion of time, matter’s entropy drive (time and gravity induce each other endlessly). Time provides matter’s causal linkage and creates matter’s historic conservation domain of information, while simultaneously providing matter with a “location” charge representing light’s non-local distributional symmetry debt. “Location” charge (whose active principle is time) identifies the 4-dimensional location of immobile, undistributed “rest mass” energy, and eventually converts matter back to its original and symmetric form, light (in stars, black holes, and other astrophysical/gravitational processes). The active “push” or “drive” of this chain of conservation effects is provided by entropy – the implicit or explicit presence of time causing the expansion of space or history.

For a more complete discussion of gravitation the reader is referred to: “A Description of Gravitation“; and “Entropy, Gravitation, and Thermodynamics“.

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  1. Gravity, Entropy, and Thermodynamics: Part 2
  2. Gravity, Entropy, and Thermodynamics: Part I
  3. The Conversion of Space to Time by Gravity
  4. The “Tetrahedron Model” vs the “Standard Model” of Physics: A Comparison
  5. Postscript to: Spiritual and Scientific Principles of the Cosmic Tetrahedron Model
  6. Spiritual and Scientific Principles of the “Tetrahedron Model”
  7. A General Systems Approach to the Unified Field Theory – Part 4 (General Systems Discussion)
  8. Symmetry Principles of the Unified Field Theory: Part 3 of 3
  9. Symmetry Principles of the Unified Field Theory (a “Theory of Everything”) – Part 2
  10. Symmetry Principles of the Unified Field Theory: Part 2 of 3
  11. Symmetry Principles of the Unified Field Theory: Part 2
  12. The Particle Table
  13. Symmetry Principles of the Unified Field Theory (Part 1 of 3)
  14. An Introduction to the Papers (Unified Field Theory)
  15. Proton Decay and the “Heat Death” of the Cosmos
  16. Proton Decay and the “Heat Death” of the Cosmos
  17. The Origin of Matter and Information
  18. Introduction to the Higgs Boson Papers
  19. Higgs Table: Unified Force Eras of the “Big Bang”
  20. The Higgs Boson and the Weak Force IVBs: Parts II -IV
  21. The Higgs Boson vs the Spacetime Metric
  22. The Weak Force: Identity or Number Charge
  23. Introduction to The Weak Force
  24. A Description of Gravitation
  25. Introduction to Gravitation
  26. Introduction to The Weak Force
  27. The Weak Force: Identity or Number Charge
  28. A Spacetime map of the Universe: Implications for Cosmology
  29. Negentropic Information
  30. Synopsis of the ‘Tetrahedron Model’
  31. Time and Entropy
  32. Noether`s Theorem and Einstein’s “Interval”
  33. The Intrinsic Motions of Matter
  34. Light and Matter – a Synopsis
  35. A Short Course in the Unified Field Theory
  36. The Information Pathway
  37. Sect. VI: Introduction to Information
  38. Introduction to Fractals
  39. Introduction to General Systems, Complex Systems
  40. A Rationale for Gravitation
  41. About Gravity
  42. Gravity, Entropy, and Thermodynamics: Part 2
  43. A Description of Gravitation
  44. Spatial vs Temporal Entropy
  45. Introduction to Entropy
  46. The Human Connection
  47. Global-Local Gauge Symmetries and the “Tetrahedron Model” Part I: Postscript
  48. Global and Local Gauge Symmetry in the “Tetrahedron Model”: Part I
  49. Global and Local Gauge Symmetries: Part IV
  50. Global and Local Gauge Symmetries: Part V
  51. Global-Local Gauge Symmetry: Part III: The Weak Force
  52. Global and Local Gauge Symmetries: Part II (Gravitation, Section A)
  53. Global and Local Gauge Symmetry: Part II (Gravitation, Section B)
  54. The Origin of Matter and Information
  55. Gravity, Entropy, and Thermodynamics: Part I
  56. The Conversion of Space to Time
  57. The Short-Range or “Particle” Forces
  58. The Time Train
  59. Extending Einstein’s Equivalence Principle: Symmetry Conservation
  60. Introduction to Gravitation
  61. Symmetry Principles of the Unified Field Theory: Part I
  62. The Higgs Boson vs the Spacetime Metric
  63. de Broglie Matter Waves and the Evolution of Consciousness
  64. Nature’s Fractal Pathway
  65. Teilhard de Chardin – Prophet of the Information Age
  66. The Double Conservation Role of Gravity
  67. The Higgs Boson and the Weak Force IVBs: Parts II -IV
  68. Higgs Table: Unified Force Eras of the “Big Bang”
  69. The Higgs Boson and the Weak Force IVBs
  70. Introduction to the Higgs Boson Papers
  71. The Strong Force: Two Expressions
  72. Table of Forces and Energy States
  73. The Origin of Space and Time
  74. “Inflation” and the “Big Crunch”
  75. The “W” Intermediate Vector Boson and the Weak Force Mechanism
  76. The Weak Force Mechanism and the “W” IVB (Intermediate Vector Boson):
  77. Physical Elements of the “Spacetime Map”
  78. The Traveling Twins Paradox
  79. Currents of Entropy and Symmetry
  80. The Half-Life of Proton Decay
  81. Spiritual and Scientific Principles of the “Tetrahedron Model”
  82. An Introduction to the Papers (Unified Field Theory)
  83. The “Spacetime Map” as a Model of Juan Maldacena’s 5-Dimensional Holographic Universe
  84. The “Tetrahedron Model” in the Context of a Complete Conservation Cycle
  85. Symmetry Principles of the Unified Field Theory: Part 3 (Summary)
  86. Symmetry Principles of the Unified Field Theory: Part 2
  87. General Systems “Hourglass” or “Grail” Diagrams
  88. PARTICLE TABLE
  89. The “Tetrahedron Model” vs the “Standard Model” of Physics: A Comparison
  90. “Dark Energy”: Does Light Create a Gravitational Field?
  91. Human Life-Span Development and General Systems Models
  92. Man’s Role in Nature
  93. Origin of Life: Newton, Darwin, and the Abundance of Life in the Universe