Table of Contents

Preface

1. Scientific Theories and Laws

2. The First Decade (1936-1946)

3. Relativity

4. The Second Decade (1946-1956)

5. Quantum Mechanics

6. The Third Decade (1956-1966)

7. The Big Bang

8. The Fourth Decade (1966-1976)

9. The Non-Bang

10. The Fifth Decade (1976-1986)

11. The Never-Bang

12. The Sixth Decade (1986-1996)

13. Evolution

14. The Seventh Decade (1996-2006)

15. The Theory of More than Everything

16. The Eighth Decade (2006-2016)

17. Now What?

18. The Ninth Decade (2016-2026)

Appendix A Paintings

Appendix B TTOMTE and a Steady State Universe

Appendix C Musical Compositions

Bibliography

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At the moment of extinction, a tightly curved piece of anti-space (a particle) gobbles up the flat space around it causing shrinkage, and the shrinkage spreads out as a pulse of gravity.

CAN WE FINALLY EXPLAIN GRAVITY

Many different fields in science make more sense if they can be brought together. So far, chemistry, heat, light, sound, and mechanics all interlock. Information from one of these studies answers questions in another. Cosmologists have tried to put gravity into this grand scheme for a hundred years, but gravity doesn't match up with any of the other forces very well. Maybe our way of thinking about gravity needs changing. Let's ask a few questions to see if the above fable can answer them better than our current view of gravity does:

1. Why do large objects attract? In other words, why can't space curve wherever it wants?

Current view: It just doesn't. Only large objects attract; empty space does not.

Fable: A large object has many particles gathered in one area meaning we'll have more extinctions than origins in that area. As a result, flat space disappears causing space around it to wrinkle in. As the surrounding flat space falls inwards, it carries matter with it (objects fall).

2. Except for gravity, some process is always necessary in order to create a force. Light is the result of an electron falling to a lower shell in an atom; heat comes out of a chemical change. How can a large object attract with the force of gravity by just being there (or curve space around itself, as Einstein likes to put it)?

Current view: No comment.

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Sections

WHAT RULE ABOUT THEORIES

EXISTENCE OF THE UNIVERSE

HAS BEEN HERE FOREVER

HAS EXISTED FOR ONLY A WHILE

ANY PIECE CAN APPEAR ANY TIME

WILL LAST FOREVER

WILL DISAPPEAR AT SOME POINT

ANY PIECE CAN DISAPPEAR

WHAT HAPPENS THEN

CAN WE EXPLAIN GRAVITY

CAN WE EXPLAIN GALAXIES/STARS

HOW TO FORM PLANETS

DISAPPEARING EXPLAINS MUCH

FINAL THOUGHTS

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