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Chapter Fifteen The "Relativity" of Einstein's "Theory of Relativity" has been one of the most successful theories in the history of modern science. It has had remarkable success in explaining and predicting the experimentally observed time dilation and mass increase associated with relative velocities based primarily on the consistency of the velocity of light. However, it has also had some remarkable failures in that it has been unable to either explain or predict the quantum properties of both matter and energy. It has been and will be shown these failures can be eliminated by redefining the space-time geometry of Relativity in terms of a geometry of a three-dimensional space manifold with respect to a fourth *spatial* dimension. Chapter one postulated that space is composed of a continuous non-quantized field of mass and energy. Chapter two derived the quantum properties of mass and energy in terms of a resonant "structure" generated by "vibrations" in a continuous non-quantized mass and energy field component of space. It can be shown that relativistic properties of space and time and the quantum properties of mass and energy can be predicted by a common mechanism in terms of a geometry of four *spatial* dimensions and the existence of a continuous non-quantized mass and energy field component of space. Earlier in Chapter twelve, the force of gravity was defined in terms of a distortion or "depression" in a "surface" of a three-dimensional space manifold with respect to a fourth *spatial* dimension. (The curvature caused by a distortion in a "surface" of a three-dimensional space manifold with respect to a fourth *spatial* dimension "Shadows" postulates is responsible for gravitation force would be analogous to the space-time curvature Relativity postulates is responsible for gravitational forces.) Therefore, both Relativity and "Shadows" define gravitational energy in terms of a curvature or "depression" in a four dimensional space manifold. However, "Shadows" defines this curvature in terms of four spatial dimensions instead of four-dimensional space-time. However "Shadows" also defines the energy associated with relative velocities in terms an "elevation" in a "surface" of a three-dimensional space manifold with respect to a fourth *spatial* dimension . The justification for defining the energy of relative velocities in terms of an "elevation" in a "surface" of a three-dimensional space manifold with respect to a fourth *spatial* dimension is due to the fact the energy associated with relative velocities is oppositely directed from that of gravitational energy. Therefore, if one defines a "depression" in a "surface" of a three-dimensional space manifold with respect to a fourth *spatial* dimension as responsible for gravitational energy then one should define the energy associated with relative velocities in terms of an oppositely directed "elevation" in a "surface" of a three-dimensional space manifold with respect to a fourth *spatial* dimension There are numerous experimental observations to support this conclusion. The energy associated with the orbital velocities of satellites opposes the gravitational attractive energy associated with the mass of the earth and the energy associated with relative velocity of a rockets exhaust opposes the earth's gravitational energy. These experimental observations strongly suggest that if one defines gravitational |