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From the forth­com­ing book:

Einstein’s Intuition
by Thad Roberts

Represented by
Sam Fleishman
Literary Artists Representatives
New York, New York

 

Chapter Synopses

Preface

Humanity has always yearned to glimpse what lies just beyond the hori­zon, to touch that which is just out of reach. Our curios­ity guides us to seek what lies beyond our senses and to make sense of a world con­tra­dic­tory in char­ac­ter. Great explor­ers of the past filled in the map of our world. Their charts enriched our con­cep­tual access to the great beyond. But this was only the begin­ning. The world is only a small part of what needs to be mapped. The struc­ture of real­ity, the Universe, the laws of physics, and the deep under­ly­ing char­ac­ter that sup­ports it all needs to be mapped if we are ever to have intu­itive answers to our biggest ques­tions. Einstein was the last great cham­pion of the quest to obtain this com­plete map. He took our bar­ren notions of phys­i­cal real­ity and filled in details that no one before him had imag­ined. He reached deep inside him­self, touched the great beyond, and called the expe­ri­ence “lift­ing a cor­ner of the great veil.” Now, 100 years later, it is time for us to lift the remain­der of that veil. It is time for us to dis­cover the rest of Nature’s hid­den struc­ture and to learn how to con­cep­tu­al­ize eleven dimen­sions simul­ta­ne­ously.
Read the full text of the Preface here.

Part 1 – Returning to a Conceptual Approach

Chapter 1 – Seeing the Problem

This chap­ter intro­duces the reader to the his­tory of how our con­cep­tual map of the cos­mos has changed over time. Our ear­li­est maps depicted the earth as a flat disk sur­rounded by a giant rotat­ing sphere that was embed­ded with thou­sands of tiny points of light. With more obser­va­tions the world switched from being described as flat to round. To account for the motions of the sun and moon three dis­tinct spheres, three celes­tial lev­els were added to the map. Then when oth­ers noticed the motions of the five vis­i­ble plan­ets the map of the heav­ens evolved into one with seven lev­els inside the orig­i­nal sphere of stars. Today all of these notions have been replaced by a map that places our world orbit­ing around an aver­age star that is located in a rather aver­age look­ing galaxy. The best cur­rent map we have of the cos­mos (gen­eral rel­a­tiv­ity) was authored by Albert Einstein. The trou­ble is that this map is not com­plete. There are many obser­va­tions that it does not explain or pre­dict. In fact, the entire realm of the super-small entirely con­tra­dicts the rules of gen­eral rel­a­tiv­ity. Quantum mechan­ics is the set of math­e­mat­i­cal equa­tions that are used to sta­tis­ti­cally explain occur­rences in that micro­scopic realm. These equa­tions have not been com­bined into any use­ful or intu­itive map. They have also not been rec­on­ciled with the require­ments of Einstein’s map. Today we stand with an incom­plete map in hand as we peer into the struc­ture of Nature.
Read the full text of Chapter 1 here.

Chapter 2 – Rethinking Space and Time Again

In order to con­tinue our quest for the final map of phys­i­cal real­ity we need to be will­ing to com­pletely rewrite the foun­da­tional struc­ture of that map. The foun­da­tions of every map are the assump­tions within it that define the struc­ture of space and time. All higher-order geo­met­ric rules, struc­tures and inter­ac­tions stem from those base assump­tions. Since we have been unable to explain the mys­ter­ies of Nature through the lens of our cur­rent assump­tions we need to revisit those assump­tions and con­sider the pos­si­bil­ity of a new struc­ture under­neath it all. We need to chal­lenge our most basic assump­tions about space and time.
Read the full text of Chapter 2 here.

Chapter 3 – Dimensions

To restruc­ture our con­cep­tion of phys­i­cal real­ity we need to make sure that we under­stand what a dimen­sion is. The dimen­sional para­me­ters of a given map form the basis and struc­ture for every­thing else that fol­lows. This chap­ter dis­cusses exactly what physi­cists mean by the word ‘dimen­sion.’ It then explores the con­nect­ed­ness of spa­tial dimen­sions and explains how those descrip­tors are part of our map of phys­i­cal real­ity. Next we exam­ine the idea of curved spa­tial geome­tries, which leads us to the neces­sity of addi­tional dimen­sions. The dimension(s) of time are also briefly intro­duced in this chap­ter.
Read the full text of Chapter 3 here.

Chapter 4 – The Quantized Nature of Spacetime

This chap­ter intro­duces some very impor­tant clues that we will use to piece together our new foun­da­tional struc­ture of phys­i­cal real­ity. Some of the biggest mys­ter­ies of Nature come from the quan­tum nature of the micro­scopic realm. Quantum mechan­ics has taught us that there is a min­i­mum dis­crete unit of both space and time. Fundamental elec­tric and mag­netic inter­ac­tions are all based on dis­crete quan­tum units. Light even exists in quan­tum pack­ets called pho­tons. Somehow all of these quan­tum pack­ets travel through the fab­ric of space as a mys­te­ri­ous wave but they also retain their quan­tum char­ac­ter­is­tics. All of this brings us to the sug­ges­tion that the foun­da­tion of our new map of phys­i­cal real­ity must incor­po­rate a quan­tized struc­ture for the fab­ric of space and time.
Read the full text of Chapter 4 here.

Part 2 – The Framework of Quantum Space Theory

Chapter 5 – Absolute Volume

In this chap­ter, the reader is intro­duced to the basic frame­work of quan­tum space the­ory (qst). They learn how to con­cep­tu­al­ize nine spa­tial dimen­sions simul­ta­ne­ously and dis­cover how it is pos­si­ble to move about from one loca­tion to another with­out chang­ing x, y, z posi­tion. The three types of vol­ume (inter­spa­tial, spa­tial, and super­spa­tial) are intro­duced and the con­cept of two time dimen­sions is fore­shad­owed. This new geom­e­try reveals many char­ac­ter­is­tics of space­time that are ignored in the famil­iar four-dimensional descrip­tions. These addi­tional geo­met­ric para­me­ters are where the mys­te­ri­ous effects of quan­tum mechan­ics and gen­eral rel­a­tiv­ity come from. Elevating our com­pre­hen­sion of the struc­ture of Nature (the map in our head) to include all of the eleven dimen­sions that make up phys­i­cal real­ity has the effect of bring­ing us into sync with its actual form. In doing this we gain access to the intu­itive solu­tions of the great­est mys­ter­ies of mod­ern physics.

Chapter 6 – Space

The con­cept of space has always been elu­sive. Humans are accus­tomed to con­cep­tu­al­iz­ing space as noth­ing­ness – what you have if you remove every­thing from a region. Yet we have always known that space is imbued with prop­er­ties. For exam­ple, dis­tance and vol­ume still remain once we remove every­thing else from a region. This mea­sur­able quan­tity is not noth­ing­ness – but what exactly is it? What is it made of? What other prop­er­ties does it have? How do we extract a def­i­n­i­tion of dis­tance from the geom­e­try of Nature? What are the geo­met­ric assump­tions that lie beneath our answers to those ques­tions? These ques­tions and more are tack­led in this chap­ter. Based on our new eleven-dimensional geom­e­try we come to a con­clu­sion on what dis­tance really is, how it is com­posed in Nature, and why it only exists in a dis­crete sense.

Chapter 7 – Time

The notion that time passes at a uni­ver­sal rate in all loca­tions through­out the uni­verse seems obvi­ous to us. 100 years after Einstein proved this idea to be false the major­ity of the world still thinks that trav­el­ing through time at dif­fer­ent rates is some­thing that is found only in sci­ence fic­tion movies. The sur­prise is that time travel is a sci­en­tific fact. It vio­lates our famil­iar four-dimensional intu­ition, it comes with a glut of philo­soph­i­cal ques­tions, but it is a fact nonethe­less. Long ago physi­cists set out to account for this fact. In this chap­ter we dis­cover that from the eleven-dimensional van­tage point this fact is not only intu­itively explained, it is geo­met­ri­cally required. The pas­sage of time is defined uniquely at each loca­tion in the sea of space­time. As the char­ac­ter of that sea changes, from one region to another, the rate at which time passes reflects these changes. All of this can be read from the key of our new eleven-dimensional map. It explains the arrow of time that we expe­ri­ence and it solves the philo­soph­i­cal conun­drums of time travel.

Chapter 8 – The Speed of Spacetime

Many peo­ple know that physi­cists say that the fastest any­thing can go through space is the speed of light. People often respond to this state­ment by assert­ing that with bet­ter tech­nol­ogy we will one day find a way to go faster than the speed of light. They fail to rec­og­nize that the speed of light is not a reflec­tion of our tech­no­log­i­cal capa­bil­i­ties. Instead it is more akin to say­ing that you can­not go fur­ther north than the North Pole. The geom­e­try of space­time dic­tates this con­di­tion. It is inscribed in the tex­ture of phys­i­cal real­ity. This chap­ter explores that tex­ture and explains why this con­di­tion nat­u­rally fol­lows from the geom­e­try of Nature.

Chapter 9 – Warped Spacetime

Here, we dive into the mys­ter­ies of grav­ity. The mag­i­cal force that pulls the moon toward the earth has, like an end­less rid­dle, long echoed through the minds of humankind. Einstein con­nected grav­ity to a geo­met­ric dis­tor­tion that extended into higher dimen­sions, but he never granted us with a pic­ture of these addi­tional dimen­sions. Now that we have learned how to con­cep­tu­al­ize these other dimen­sions, our map of the Universe nat­u­rally accounts for the effects we credit to grav­ity. Throughout this chap­ter we prac­tice switch­ing our intu­ition from the four-dimensional view we grew up with to the eleven-dimensional view of qst. As we do this we dis­cover that the gravity’s rid­dles trans­form into read­ily acces­si­ble con­di­tions of the struc­ture of Nature.

Chapter 10 – The Bucket

The ancient philo­soph­i­cal debate about the nature of accel­er­a­tion ver­sus time and posi­tion rests on whether or not an under­ly­ing ref­er­ence frame exists in Nature. In this chap­ter we dis­cover a unique solu­tion to this bit­ter debate. We find that from within the dimen­sions that define our uni­verse, there is an under­ly­ing ref­er­ence frame – one that we call absolute vol­ume – but from the ulti­mate per­spec­tive that ref­er­ence frame is as fluid as the rest. The rea­son that time and posi­tion are mea­sures that can only be defined in com­par­i­son to some other time or posi­tion, while accel­er­a­tion needs no com­par­i­son to be defined is a direct result of the quan­tized struc­ture of space­time. It is required by the geom­e­try of Nature.

Chapter 11 – Dimensional Analysis

This chap­ter reviews the dimen­sions that we have explored in this part of the book. It then intro­duces the curi­ous con­cepts of spin­ors and the require­ments of lim­ited dimen­sional free­dom that grav­ity sets in the uni­verse. After explain­ing how these con­di­tions are con­se­quences of the quan­tized geom­e­try we have been explor­ing we exam­ine the philo­soph­i­cal require­ments for extend­ing the rules of that geom­e­try. Where it takes us, opens the next great door on human imag­i­na­tion where the heart­strings of our per­sonal life are con­nected to the exter­nal world and the infi­nite is found in the finite.

Part 3 – Physical Reality in Eleven Dimensions

Chapter 12 – The Questions of Quantum Mechanics

In order to under­stand how mirac­u­lous it is that a sim­ple chang­ing of our geo­met­ric assump­tions leads to a map that solves the big mys­ter­ies of our time we need to be famil­iar with those mys­ter­ies. In this chap­ter we dis­cuss the enig­mas of quan­tum mechan­ics, particle/wave dual­ity, the non-locality of the uni­verse, and the pho­to­elec­tric effect. After each mys­tery is devel­oped we then turn to view it from the eleven-dimensional per­spec­tive that we have been explor­ing. Every time we do this, the process becomes a lit­tle eas­ier and the mys­ter­ies of advanced physics go from impos­ing frus­tra­tions to delight­ful and acces­si­ble parts of Nature’s geometry.

Chapter 13 – The KD Map

Here, we ana­lyze the way in which our map of the uni­verse has changes over time and ask whether or not our new map (called the KD map) is just the next in an end­less series of incar­na­tions or the final map of Nature. Using the infi­nite dimen­sional cas­cades within the KD map we dis­cover that our explana­tory process does not acquire brute or “inserted” facts on any level. This means that this map gives us the abil­ity to reduc­tively explain any phe­nom­ena. It is a hier­ar­chal monism that is self con­tained, self-referential, and the ulti­mate fractal.

Chapter 14 – Quantum Tunneling, Wormholes, and Teleportation

This chap­ter is ded­i­cated to an explo­ration of the mys­ter­ies of quan­tum tun­nel­ing, worm­holes and tele­por­ta­tion. Each of these mys­ter­ies is explained from a con­cep­tu­ally his­tor­i­cal approach and then con­sid­ered from the geo­met­ric per­spec­tive of the KD map. What we find is that although all of these effects are mind bend­ing from our four-dimensional per­spec­tive, they are all nat­ural and sim­ple aspects of the geom­e­try of Nature from eleven dimensions.

Chapter 15 – Black Holes and Elementary Particles

Many peo­ple today have said that one of the most pro­found mys­ter­ies of our time is cen­tered on the ques­tion of what black holes are like inside their event hori­zons. By def­i­n­i­tion no light escapes a black hole to reveal its inte­rior struc­ture. For this rea­son, many peo­ple have sup­posed that the insides of black holes would for­ever be beyond our grasp. In this chap­ter, we dis­cover exactly what a black hole is, what it looks like from within its event hori­zon, how black holes are related to entropy and the dis­crete pieces of space, and we even learn how and why black holes form to begin with. All of these dis­cov­er­ies are auto­matic require­ments of our new geometry.

Chapter 16 – The Constants of Nature

The phys­i­cal quan­ti­ties that appear over and over in all of our equa­tions in physics, chem­istry, biol­ogy and so on are often just taken as brute unex­plain­able val­ues. The anthropic prin­ci­ple is often used to squelch ques­tions about how these val­ues came to be as they are. The uni­verse, they say, acquired these val­ues ran­domly and since only the com­bi­na­tion that we have in this uni­verse leads to the for­ma­tion of life, the fact that we are here ask­ing the ques­tions shows the out­come of the universe’s ini­tial dice roll. This is not a pro­found solu­tion. Even a ran­dom mech­a­nism capa­ble of set­ting the val­ues of the con­stants of Nature needs to be explained. In this chap­ter, we dis­cover the expla­na­tion for how the con­stants of Nature have come to have the val­ues that we mea­sure. We also dis­cover that there is a non-arbitrary scale within Nature. All of this dras­ti­cally reduces the math­e­mat­i­cal com­plex­i­ties of the equa­tions we have become famil­iar with and it gives us a solid under­stand­ing as to why the uni­verse is the way it is.

Chapter 17 – Deterministic Versus Stochastic Models

Is the uni­verse deter­min­is­tic or sto­chas­tic? Do things evolve strictly in accor­dance with cause and effect? Or is there a part of the uni­verse that ulti­mately does not makes sense? This has been a time­less debate. Today’s physics is divided on the mat­ter. General rel­a­tiv­ity is deter­min­is­tic and most of quan­tum mechan­ics is also, but the ad hoc inter­pre­ta­tion of state reduc­tion that we use today is decid­edly sto­chas­tic. How do we make sense of it all? In this chap­ter we explore these issues and dis­cover that the uni­verse is deter­min­is­tic after all. The equa­tions of state reduc­tion are revealed as solu­tions based on only part of the dimen­sions in the uni­verse. This means that every action has a cause. The philo­soph­i­cal impact this can have on how we choose to live our lives is quite prophetic. The geom­e­try of Nature is a very per­sonal issue.

Chapter 18 – Emergent Reality

The com­plex struc­tures around us are always emerg­ing and evolv­ing. Where do they come from? What deter­mines their struc­ture and for­ma­tion? What does it all depend upon? And what dri­ves the evo­lu­tion of these sys­tems? Understanding the emer­gence of form from the under­ly­ing geo­met­ric foun­da­tion of Nature is the focus of this chap­ter. We explore the con­cept of super­ve­nience and dis­cover that in the KD map we do not have the present day prob­lems with illog­i­cal infin­ites that quan­tum mechan­ics cur­rently wres­tles with.

Chapter 19 – The Hierarchy Problem

A pop­u­lar ques­tion today asks why the force of grav­ity is so infin­i­tes­i­mally weaker than the other three forces. By com­par­i­son the strong nuclear force, the weak nuclear force and the elec­tro­mag­netic force are roughly all the same strength. How is it that grav­ity is so dif­fer­ent? Where does this dif­fer­ence come from? This ques­tion is called the hier­ar­chy prob­lem. In this chap­ter we learn that there is a dif­fer­ence in the ori­gins between the three sim­i­lar forces and grav­ity. Gravity is the effect of a small inelas­tic­ity in the quanta of space. This inelas­tic­ity is what sets up space­time den­sity gra­di­ents or the cur­va­ture of space­time. The rea­son that the force of grav­ity is so very weak is that this inelas­tic­ity is many pow­ers smaller than the degree of elas­tic­ity in the quanta.

Chapter 20 – Forces (The Magician’s Illusion)

If we were to look up and watch an astro­naut orbit the earth in noth­ing but his space­suit we would say that the force of grav­ity is what is respon­si­ble for his ellip­ti­cal path. By doing this we are assert­ing that a force is act­ing on the astro­naut. But when a force acts on an object that object is accel­er­ated. Whenever some­one is accel­er­ated they can feel it. So does our astro­naut feel some force pulling or push­ing on him and accel­er­at­ing him toward the earth? The answer is no. The astro­naut is not being accel­er­ated at all. Instead he is going straight through curved space. Forces are all titles we give to the mis­takes we make in fram­ing the geom­e­try of the uni­verse. Once we see the uni­verse in its full geo­met­ric form these forces dis­solve and the mys­te­ri­ous effects of these “forces” are read­ily accessible.

Chapter 21 – Fields

In this chap­ter we dis­cover that the forces of Nature are noth­ing more than man­i­fes­ta­tions of the ways that the geom­e­try of Nature dif­fers from the four-dimensional geom­e­try we have tra­di­tion­ally ascribed to it. Gravity is noth­ing other than changes in spa­tial den­si­ties from one region to another. The elec­tro­mag­netic force is the result of spa­tial den­sity waves prop­a­gat­ing through­out the medium. The strong nuclear force comes about because of the ten­dency of the quanta of space to stick together at low ener­gies. And the weak nuclear force is a man­i­fes­ta­tion of the gaps between the quan­tized struc­ture of spacetime.

Chapter 22 – Matter Origins

The ele­ments of bary­onic mat­ter can be orga­nized into peri­odic table of ele­ments. There is obvi­ously some struc­ture to this mat­ter. When we look closer we find that these atoms are com­posed of even more fun­da­men­tal parts – quarks that have very spe­cific prop­er­ties. Where do these quarks come from? Why do they have the char­ac­ter they have? In this chap­ter we dis­cover that the fun­da­men­tal build­ing blocks of all mat­ter comes from the ten­dency for the quanta to form con­glom­er­ates as the kinetic ener­gies of the quanta taper off over time. The quanta can be com­bined in whole num­ber dis­crete clus­ters. These fun­da­men­tal clus­ters make up the build­ing blocks from which all higher-order mat­ter is constructed.

Chapter 23 – Illuminating Dark Matter

Dark mat­ter haloes sur­round galax­ies increas­ing the amount of grav­i­ta­tional dis­tor­tions in these outer regions. But no one has been able to explain where this extra grav­i­ta­tional energy comes from. What causes these haloes to form? Why don’t we find the cul­prits in our lab­o­ra­to­ries here on earth? How do we explain the struc­tures we see in our largest tele­scopes? These are the ques­tions we address in this chap­ter. What we dis­cover is that the dark mat­ter haloes that sur­round galax­ies are the effects of phase changes in the sea of space­time. Since space­time is par­tic­u­late, just as water is, it can have dif­fer­ent phases. These phases cor­re­spond to dif­fer­ent geo­met­ric con­nect­ed­ness just as the phases of H2O do. When we account for the vary­ing geo­met­ric arrange­ments of these space quanta with a depen­dency on tem­per­a­ture we nat­u­rally get the dis­tor­tions that we have been attribut­ing to dark matter.

Chapter 24 – Bohmian Mechanics

This chap­ter is for the math­e­mati­cian that wants to dive into the set of equa­tions that best express the intu­itive geom­e­try that we have been explor­ing through­out the book. The math is explained in words but the equa­tions are also included. A dis­cus­sion on the his­tory of Bohmian mechan­ics, which is the foun­da­tional set of equa­tions, is also included.

Chapter 25 — On the Origin of Symmetry

The laws of physics don’t depend on where you are or which direc­tion you are going. Why? Why do all our equa­tions assert that the laws of Nature are time-reverse sym­met­ric yet they all clearly seem to unfold with a pref­er­ence in time? Is time ulti­mately sym­met­ric or asym­met­ric? What other sym­me­tries exist in Nature and why? These are the ques­tions that are addressed and answered in this chap­ter. The char­ac­ters we call sym­me­tries in Nature all stem from the geo­met­ric struc­ture that defines the fab­ric of space­time. By under­stand­ing this struc­ture we come to terms with the sym­me­tries of Nature.

Chapter 26 – Entropy

The sec­ond law of ther­mo­dy­nam­ics states that if there ever exists a sys­tem that pos­sesses less than its max­i­mum entropy (dis­or­dered­ness) then it will be extremely likely to have higher entropy both before and after that moment. This has been accepted as one of the most invi­o­late, iron­clad ten­ants of our uni­verse – yet it has never been explained. Why do sys­tems tend toward dis­or­dered­ness? Where does the law of entropy come from? In this chap­ter, we dis­cover that the par­tic­u­late nature of space leads to entropy because geo­met­ric mix­ing is an inher­ent part of all sys­tems in spacetime.

Chapter 27 – Genesis

In this chap­ter we come to what oth­ers have said lies out­side the realm of sci­ence. The first thing we dis­cover is that they were wrong. The ques­tion of what caused the Big Bang, what got the whole thing started to begin with turns out to be encased by the infi­nite cas­cades of dimen­sional hier­ar­chy that is within the set of our KD map. This means that we can answer the ques­tion of ulti­mate ori­gins. The answer turns out to be very ele­gant and quite a bit sur­pris­ing. Nietzsche’s con­cept of eter­nal recur­rence reemerges through this insight and pulls human­ity into the ques­tion in a whole new way.

Chapter 28 – Dark Energy and the Expanding Universe

Now that the reader has had some prac­tice see­ing phys­i­cal real­ity in eleven dimen­sions, it is time to address one of the great mys­ter­ies that has been saved for last – dark energy. This chap­ter gives a his­tory on the dis­cov­er­ies that led to our mod­ern under­stand­ing of the expand­ing uni­verse and its cause, which we have clev­erly named dark energy. The reader is given the chance to apply their new eleven-dimensional intu­ition to solve this mys­tery. They must address the ques­tion of expanded space – what does that really mean? Then they must dis­cover what is really caus­ing the light reach­ing our eyes from dis­tant stars to be red-shifted. The solu­tion is sur­pris­ingly clear from our higher-dimensional vantage.

Chapter 29 – Captain’s Log

This chap­ter warms the reader to the philo­soph­i­cal impact that this new geom­e­try has on human­ity. A new way of see­ing the world around us has always changed the way we inter­act with it. The respon­si­bil­ity we have with each new improve­ment is the task of absorb­ing dis­cov­ered truths and incor­po­rat­ing them into our daily lives. Here we find that our entire way of being, our most basic mode of exis­tence (at least in the West) is based on assump­tions that do not ulti­mately hold. Where do we go from here? The KD map has a lot to say about our per­sonal lives.

Chapter 30 – Intuition Finds Conclusion

Our curios­ity often tricks us into falling for solu­tions that are made merely of smoke and mir­rors when a more rigid solu­tion is not avail­able. The enti­ties that profit most from the con­tin­ued pro­jec­tion of that smoke have led a cam­paign to con­vince us that the truth we seek is not obtain­able by sci­ence, that the quest of sci­ence is not capa­ble of sat­is­fy­ing the deep yearn­ing we have. This is, and has always been, a lie. Now that we pos­sess a map of Nature, the appar­ent­ness of that lie stands out in the day­light for every­one to see. In this chap­ter we dis­cuss how the process of the sci­en­tific quest is the most ful­fill­ing and sat­is­fy­ing human expe­ri­ence. It throws us beyond our­selves and encour­ages us to intel­lec­tu­ally and emo­tion­ally tran­scend any bar­ri­ers that hold us back. The char­ac­ters of sci­ence are the peo­ple with pas­sion and vigor for life, the seek­ers, the explor­ers and the embrac­ers of won­der. It is through the quest of sci­ence that our human­ity is rede­fined and lifted to a new plane.