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A Quantum Journey into Space-Time Mechanics

By Bernard Paul Badham

The enigma of gravity has perplexed scientists and philosophers for millennia. Gravity is the driving force of the universe, it keeps us on this planet, orders Earth's orbit around the sun, and maintains the harmony of the planets stars and galaxies. Gravity even drives the nuclear fusion processes in the cores of stars which generate the essential heat and light energy needed to sustain life. Strangely enough, it is the weakest of the four fundamental forces of the universe and yet it is the most important, what is even more surprising, gravity is the force which is least understood.

Isaac Newton postulated that gravity is a force, Einstein that it is a curvature of space-time, each producing a model of how gravity acts, but neither explaining the cause and mechanism of gravity.

It is the cause and mechanism of gravity which is the subject of this journey.

Introduction

Our quantum journey into space-time mechanics will take us down many roads, some seeming irrelevant, and some off the track, but hopefully they will all lead to the same destination - explaining and understanding the cause and mechanism of gravity.

If we can understand how gravity works, then we may be able to generate or manipulate gravity. To do so would be the next quantum leap for science, for with the knowledge of how to warp space-time (create gravitational fields) comes the ability of man's ultimate goal to travel any where and maybe any time in the universe. This is the stuff of science fiction, but what was yesterday thought impossible, today becomes the probable.

Scientists all over the world are doing major research into the holy grail of physics - the creation of a gravitational field. Some claim its impossible, while others have been credited with unconfirmed limited success. A few years ago the American government anounced that they were about to spend millions of dollars on a gravitational field project.

The race is on!