PQR THEORY

CONTENTS OF THE BOOK

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

AUTHOR’S NOTE: A WARNING TO HOBBITS

INTRODUCTION (WHICH YOU SHOULD ACTUALLY READ)

• About this book

• How this book originated

PART I: PQR THEORY

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1. What is PQR Theory?

• Our Universe: Matter, energy, space and time

• Relativity and the quantum theory

• Who was Pythagoras?

• What are the Natural numbers?

• What is information?

• The medium is not the message

• What is Pythagoras’s theorem really telling us​?

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2. Physical Existence

• Do photons exist?

• Un-real numbers

• Is space continuous?

• The death of pi

• The space-time discontinuum

• Do Schrödinger waves exist?

• Do space and time really exist?

 

3. Results of the Theory

• Some principles of PQR Theory

• Cause and effect

• Free will and determinism

• Your fate is: to make your own fate

• Are you for real?

• Shaving Schrödinger’s cat with Occam’s razor

• Quantum mechanics

• Interpretations of quantum mechanics

• The perverse multiverse

• Quantum field theory and electrodynamics

• Dark matter

• Quarks

• Applying Occam’s razor to PQR Theory

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4. Some Unanswered Questions

• Are the constants of physics changing? And if not, why not?

• How old is the Universe?

• Timeline of the Big Bang

• Is energy conserved over long time periods?

• Is space expanding, or is it subdividing?

• Some unanswerable questions

  • What is the Universe?

  • Where is the Universe?

  • Why does the Universe exist?

  • When did it come into existence?

  • What was there before the Big Bang?

• Does God exist?

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PART II: HOW ONE CAN CREATE A UNIVERSE

 

5. Model Universes

• A comparison of the models

  • L1 (Level One) “Fareyland”

  • L2 (Level Two) “The Flatrack”

  • L3 (Level Three) “The Four-D Froth”

 

6. Level 1: Fareyland

• Geometrical construction: Ford circles

• Numerical construction: Farey fractions

• Another form of the Farey fractions: Duads

• An algebraic formulation

• Four constructions, one structure

• The physical interpretation: Space and time

• Energy and matter

• An alternate view: Point energy

• Scaled energy

• The view from inside

 

7. Level 2: The Flatrack

• Geometrical construction: Ford spheres

• The numerical construction

• An algebraic formulation

• Toward a physical interpretation

• Distributions of energy

• A colorable argument

• Effects and their causes

• What is gravity?

• Fun with photons

 

8. Level 3: The Four-D Froth

• Geometrical construction: Ford hyperspheres

• Numerical construction: Tetrads

• Algebraic construction: Gosset quintets

• Future research

 

Afterword: Do other universes exist?

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GLOSSARY OF SELECTED TERMS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR