"The Universe"
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From: glird on 31 Jul 2010 12:38 Here is the Intro to the book: The Universe What It is Made of and How It Works by Gerald Lebau Copyright © 2008 All rights Reserved. International Copyright Secured. No part of this publication may be photocopied or reproduced in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher. Unauthorized uses are an infringement of the U.S. Copyright Act and are punishable by law. This book will explain what the Universe is made of and how those things interact to form everything that exists. The constructions are based on the validity of human reason and sense evidence, coupled with experimental results. It is addressed to high-school level people, in order to preempt the things they would be taught later which might block their minds from understanding its explanation of the structure of reality. At the present basic level the actions of gravity, an electric field, magnetism, light, quanta, and much else are given in equations. Beneath the equations there is total mystery. This book presents several basic concepts, some old, some new; and uses them to explain everything that exists in the physical world, including the physical realities and mechanisms the equations describe. It will explain the metaphysics first, and then, via the equations, the relevant physics. We will find that Reality is very different from the fundamental concepts of Science. "Someday we'll understand the whole thing as one single marvelous vision that will seem so overwhelmingly simple and beautiful that we will say to each other 'Oh, how could we have been so stupid or so long?'" John Wheeler "Then the Eyes of the Blind shall be Opened and the Ears of the Deaf Shall be Unstopped." Isaiah Introduction Twenty-seven centuries ago Thales set forth the thesis that a material substance which he called the "ylem" fills every place in the universe. Heraclitos then observed that material bodies undergo various kinds of change. Parmenides then said that change cannot be due to motion if there is nothing but one physical substance or many microscopic particles; for motion requires that a thing moves from where it is to where it is not. He said, "If there is no 'where-it-is-not' then motion is impossible. The motion of many particles involves a 'where-it-is-not' as much as the motion of one. Moreover, there cannot be many particles if nothing but the moving particles of matter exists. For many-ness requires something to enable one to distinguish between one particle of matter and another, and this is impossible if nothing but the stuff of the atoms exists." That entire argument is based on the unspoken premise that the ylem is incompressible. That, in turn, led to the kinetic-atomic theory that matter is made of ultimate particles separated by empty spaces; which is the primary plank in the present scientific paradigm. At the far end of every consequence based on that ancient premise lies total mystery. As of now the mystery is blamed on the way God made the world, rather than its real cause: The ancient premise is false. The constructions in this book are based on the alternative premise: Matter Is Compressible. An easily movable bodily compressible material that fills all space can and does easily move within, around, upon and through more of itself by changing the volume that bits of displaced portions occupy during those motions. When a material body is compressed the matter of which that body is made is condensed into a smaller volume, rather than, as now believed, that its component particles move closer to each other in an intervening empty space. Rather than being made of point-sized particles, all material bodies, including the smallest particles, extend for meaningful distances in all directions. __________________ glird
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