The Shadows of Four Spatial Dimensions Absract

Title: The "Shadows" of four spatial dimensions.

A Proposal for the Unification of Relativity and Quantum Theory based on physical observations of the real world, not on abstract mathematical observations.

Authors: Jeffrey O'Callaghan (Author) the_imagineers@yahoo.com IM The_imagineers, Juan Echaurren (Co-Author, Collaborator) jechaurren@hotmail.com, Christian Mills (Co-Author, Collaborator, Editor) captain_mills@yahoo.com, Stefan von Weber (Collaborator) webers@fh-furtwangen.de, Tjipto Juwono (Collaborator).

Introduction: Common sense sometimes gives a false indication of reality. As a result, "Shadows" of other truths go unnoticed.

For example, many people of the fifteenth century believed the earth was flat, even though they could see the circular shadow of the earth moving across the moon during a lunar eclipse.

However, Christopher Columbus along with many educated people of that time realized this to be an indication that the earth might be spherical.

He trusted both his intellect and his senses more than the conventional wisdom of the time and sailed to a new world of knowledge and understanding.

Abstract: Relativity and Quantum theories have been the two most successful scientific theories of modern physics. However, attempts to unify them have been unsuccessful. This may be due to the fact that are have been built on different foundations.

Relativity is based on the geometry of space-time while Quantum Theory is based primarily on the spatial geometry of momentum and position.

However, "Shadows" demonstrates the observed relativistic properties of space and time can be accurately predicted by defining the universe in terms four spatial dimensions instead of four-dimensional space-time. This allows one to define a common unifying mechanism responsible for both the quantum properties of mass and energy and the relativistic properties of space and time in terms of the spatial properties of momentum and position.

"Shadows" postulates a volume of space is composed of a continuous non-quantized "field" of mass and energy.

"Shadows" will derive the quantum and relativistic properties of mass and energy in terms of resonate "structures" formed in space by vibrations in a continuous non-quantized mass and energy field component of space.

The quantum properties of these resonant "structures" will be defined in terms of a dynamic interaction between a continuous non-quantized mass and energy field component of space and the experimentally verified relationship between mass and energy of E=mc^2.

"Shadows" will derive the quantum and relativistic properties of gravity, space and time in terms of a physical "distortion" in a "surface" of a three-dimensional space manifold with respect to a fourth *spatial* dimension generated by the resonate structures "Shadows" postulates is responsible for the quantum and relativistic properties of mass energy.

This indicates redefining the physical structure of the universe in terms of a geometry of four spatial dimensions may enable physicists to define a common unifying mechanism responsible for both the quantum and relativistic properties of gravity, mass, energy, space, and time.

Conclusion: "Shadows" demonstrates the power that changing one's perspective on the physical structure of the universe can have in helping humankind understand the mechanisms responsible for the physical laws and forces of nature.