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This is not a theory in the traditional sense. God explained this to Adam, but the limited and ambiguous vocabulary of Genesis has led to many misunderstanding, so here is an explanation in modern words.
The universe was created with a big bang, described as the voice of god. All the energy of the universe as we know it started at one point, traveling outward from that point, much as a wave when we throw a stone into a pond, or a fireworks explosion. The wave we are on is three dimensional, traveling through the dimension we call time. Everything we know is on the same wave, and is the same distance from the point of origin. That is why time travel backwards would not lead us to our own past, but to another wave, as our universe has already passed that point in time. The other universes would not be as suitable to our life forms. Just as waves of different intensity are created by throwing the stone in the pond, the density of matter and energy varies from wave to wave (universe to universe), and over time.
The natural laws as we know them vary over time and from place to place. In the beginning, this wave was all energy, and only as it grew less intense was matter able to form, and billions of years later, life formed. Life would have been impossible earlier or later than the period we are in now. Just as a note on a string is at first loud, and then grows dim, so is our universe just now at the time of beauty, but the intensity of the note will eventually grow dim, and the universe will not support life as we know it.
Energy condensed into matter, and each particle of this matter is vibrating as does a violin string. Each particle gives off waves of electro-magnetic radiance / photons. Each particle also gives of space waves, and the sum of all these space waves is the 3 dimensional space we are familiar with. Scientists accept that mass creates space, but they are missing the great significance of this.
We are all on the edge of the fireball, traveling out along the dimension of time. Travel in any direction in our universe, and you wind up where you started, just like if you walk and swim around the earth.
But by the time you get back to where you started, the earth will have moved, and in more ways than you imagine.
(The Cherokee nation realized long ago that each of us is at the center of the Universe, while the silly Europeans were looking for the center of the big bang.)
On a MACRO level, the space field created by each particle of matter asserts a force against the space field of other particles. This force causing an acceleration, which exponentially increases the speed at which the universe is flying apart.
The next part requires a paradigm shift to understand, like sailing against the wind, or increasing wind speed to lift airplane wings, both counter-intuitive phenomenons.
The space field created by each particle can be thought of as emanating from the particle like hair under static electricity. The closer two particles are, the more the space field waves are pushed away from the other particle. Right between the two particles, there is an area where, like parting your hair, where the space field is less dense.

Unification theory
Science already has all the pieces, let’s briefly put together a unification theory that will explain this and everything else too.
Even Einstein did not understand the full significance of his relativity.
Light is a wave phenomenon, so it propagates much as sound does.
However, Neutrinos are actually particles, which can be shot at faster speeds, much as a plane can travel at supersonic speeds.
The truth is that light travels at the same speed because we are all not moving though space, and to explain why will really be an eye-opener.
Scientists have been looking for a unification theory that will explain a number of phenomena.
NASA always misses whenever it slingshots a deep space probe.
Why is the universe expanding, instead of contracting as the traditional theory of gravity would predict?
Why can no one find the dark matter needed to explain the movement of the universe?
Why can no one (except the Cherokee) find the center of the universe?
How is it possible to build the particle weapon that Tesla said could end all wars?
Why are black holes formed, why so infrequently, and how dangerous are they?
Can worm holes be used for time travel?
Why could no one find a particle of gravity, or explain why it worked?
Tesla stated that gravity was a wave phenomenon, but by this time he was so far ahead that few could comprehend him. He predicted over a hundred years ago the sacrilege of burning irreplaceable petroleum oil when energy is all around us. The public cannot read from him directly, as his 80 trunks of papers were stolen by the USA government at the time of his death.

You ask a very good question, why C squared. It can be shown to be correct, but the why is a more interesting.
Einstein mused, “The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility,”
And the universe is comprehensible, but usually mis-understood.
Actually, C seems to be the natural speed of light in a vacuum, where we are, at this time, though this is not actually a constant in all places at all times.
In order to understand why C squared, it is better to think of the speed of light as the speed of a wave in the ocean.
A wave builds up height as it approaches shallow water. This can be seen as an analogy for how energy gains mass.
As we know from Einstein’s theory of relativity, time slows down, and decreased in length, and therefore mass increases, as we go faster. The universe is expanding from the point of the big bang at the speed of propagation of waves, which we call the speed of light. Therefore, this energy, as it slows down, seems to gain mass as it increases in speed.
This would explain why Energy is divided by C as it bulks up into mass, but why C squared?
Because the wave is not just traveling though space, it is also oscillating as a sine wave. This oscillation also slows down; hence the energy is converted to mass as a square of the speed.
We can think of the universe as we know it as the edge of a fireball traveling at the speed of light. But it is not really fire, but the edge of a wave, and we are all on this edge. Energy that is traveling along with us at the speed of light is slowed down and decreased in length so it appears to us as solid.
The edge of the fireball is the three dimensions we know of, so of course the fireball is a two dimensional representation of more dimensions.
When matter travels along the edge of the fireball, in addition to the traveling along the axis of time from the origin, then length compresses, so they are not actually going faster than the speed of light.
The result is that Energy seems to be compressed into what we observe as matter, at a ratio of the speed of light squared, due to the speed along the time axis and the sinusoidal oscillation of the wave.
This is all part of the unification theory that finally explains how and why gravity works.

Excellent description!

E=mc^2. Think of the magnitude of c^2! That is lot of energy. Just a little mass if fissured can release massive energy (nuke bomb). It seems that planets are in calm zones (on that scale) and the rest of the universe is converting mass to energy and vice versus. It's as if we are trapped in maze and can not see the higher reality. If Higgs is not found, then the current model is deficient, and physics is not dead. I personally like the many worlds interpretation as it gets rid of the chicken/egg problem.


OK. I'm no Mathematician and no physicist. All I want to know who the hell I am and what the hell am I doing here, and what the hell happens to me after I die.

Physics is the only descipline I trust. So, go on, you physicists, explain away.

Nellux in reply to AshirK

No one, not even Grigori Perelman, "knows" the answer to your questions. Physics is concerned with relationships, as one commenter said. Newton's laws of motion, and Schrödinger's equation, are extremely successful at describing physical phenomena. Why is F=ma? Nobody knows - the equations work, that's it.

For a very interesting discussion on the subject, see "La Science et l'Hypothèse" from Henri Poincaré.

femi in reply to AshirK

On a serious note Ashirk,no natural science is going to give you a definitive answer to the interesting questions you have posed,however one book which has given me satisfactory answers to the questions you have asked and many more besides is 'The Grail Message'...In the Light of Truth,by ABD RU SHIN.I am certain it would open your eyes in a way that no other work ever will,however,and this is most interesting,it will not contradict what has been 'discovered'by science,on the contrary it will reaffirm science,and proclaim the further'discovery'of even more wonders ahead.We are not done yet.

Alfred Schrader in reply to AshirK

Ashirk : You'll have to ask God for those answers. Einstein had the clues with E = mc^2 but he ran out of time to finish his work.
What I have found is Protons and Neutrons are made of Photon particles. The number of Photons is in exact sequence to Einstein's E = mc^2. When we blast Protons to "bits" in the LHC, those "bits" are clumps of Photon particles. Matter is made of light. You can add or subtract Photon particles to Protons and Neutrons quite easily. Take a piece of iron and focus a heatlamp onto it. The Protons in the iron atoms will "gain" Photon particles from the Photon source. If you place the piece of iron away from other matter with the same excess of Photon particles, the piece of iron will shed the excess Photons and become cold. You can do this all the way down to absolute zero where the iron atoms will be their lightest. An object on your desk for example, is exchanging Photons with other objects and the air of the same temperature and it all becomes balanced. Matter is made of light....Al-

Where this gets interesting is the shedding and impacting Photons create a tiny force between the atoms. This tiny force tends to spread the atoms apart. When you heat the piece of iron, for example, it gets bigger. You can measure this with an instrument called a micrometer. Because of this distance between the iron atoms, it's harder for electrons to jump from one iron atom to the next, so even though
iron will conduct electricity at warm temperatures, it's not as good of a conductor as it is at absolute zero where it can nearly superconduct because the iron atoms are close together. I suspect the flurry of Photons also interferes with the electron flow at warm temps....Al-

guest-iwsasje in reply to AshirK

No one knows the answer to your question because the said question is meaningless. If therefore you want an "answer", you need to invent something like "the Lord" and write a never ending ocean of fairy tales. Conclusion : stop asking questions, be satisfied with knowing that, in some sense, you "exist", and make love to prove it. Sorry.
Roger Godement, Paris.

Kevin Nixon

Thank goodness. Physics books with no math are worthless. Math books with no math (e.g., "Chaos") are even worse. A Brian Greene Nova special is just sound and fury. At first you feel you've gained some knowledge, but then realize you've just seen a lot of pictures and heard a lot of weak analogies and have learned nothing. Bringing physics to the masses is a nice idea, but you have to actually bring the physics.

Bill88888888 in reply to Kevin Nixon

Kevin Nixon Nov 5th 2011 6:58 GMT


If physics books were not supported by math, it is merely a religious book or philosophy of the world according to some gurus. For example, the Buddhists world view had already told us that matter can be in a formless energy state. Buddhist world views of the universe is more than what we know of today from telescope. However, it cannot be taught as science because it has no support by math's vigorous proof.


Good article,

Some of the physical world seems to make logical sense. But some of it requires math to explain it, or to make sense of it, and may even seem to defy logic to many. Math keeps track of relationships, even if the relationships are complex.

An example is the Stefan Bolzmann equation for the energy emitted by an object. It can be derived from basic thermodynamics. The result shows that energy emitted is proportional to the fourth power of temperature. To many, this doesn't seem logical, but it is what it is.


Physics is the most beautiful expression of mathematics I know.

Brian Cox managed to get my wife interested in Physics so full respect to him for managing that.

I love your political accredition to Prof Cox as well.



According to relativity, physical quantities are affected by velocity. Mathematically, the impact of those relativistic effects involves the ratio of the velocity squared to the speed of light squared. If either the velocity weren't squared or the speed of light weren't squared, the ratio and the entire calculation would be incorrect.


C( the speed of light) is a limit. So, why to say C square.

guest-iwswews in reply to Apple

Apple, you're absolutely right, the speed of light is a limit, but it only limits speed. Einstein's equation uses speed and mass to determine energy, which can easily exceed the value of c (c is about 3*10^8 m/s, or 300,000,000).



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