Quantum Foam, Gravity and Gravitational Waves

Abstract

The new information-theoretic Process Physics has shown that space is a quantum foam system with gravity being, in effect, an inhomogeneous in-flow of the quantum foam into matter. The theory predicts that absolute motion with respect to this system should be observable, and it is shown here that absolute motion has been detected in at least seven experiments. As well this experimental data also reveals the existence of a gravitational wave phenomena associated with the in-flow. It is shown that Galilean Relativity and Special Relativity are in fact compatible, contrary to current beliefs: absolute motion actually causes the special relativity effects. The new theory of gravity passes all the tests of the previous Newtonian and General Relativity theories, but in addition resolves the numerous gravitational anomalies such as the spiral galaxy `dark matter' effect, the absence of `dark matter' in elliptical galaxies, the inconsistencies in measuring G, the borehole g anomaly, and others. It is shown that Newtonian gravity is deeply flawed, because the solar system from which it was developed has too high a spherical symmetry to have revealed key aspects of the phenomena of gravity, and that General Relativity inherited these flaws. The data are revealing that space has structure, and so indicates for the first time evidence of quantum space and quantum gravity effects.

60 pages, 22 eps figure files. To be published in Relativity, Gravitation, Cosmology

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