An Alternative View of Gravity   by Steve Broderick (c) August 2009

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."

— Marcel Proust

Introduction

This is a hobby effort yielding an apparently successful, simple and powerful toy "Grand Unified Theory", featuring:

* a 3D-only Universe

* an experienced virtual 4th D aka an “Arrow of Time”

* charge and magnetic effects

* simple charged particles

* close-range + and - charge interactions plus the arrow of time

   => curved space with flow of space to mass plus time dilation

   => “gravity” in attractive and repulsive modes

* gravity => acceleration providing a “universal force model”

- resulting in an overall model similar to that which Einstein sought in his later years (being: space is not empty and has but one field in which geometric deformations occur, these distortions being what we call electric charge, magnetism and gravity. To Einstein's list I add a new style of distortion which gives: time).

Other feathers in the cap of the approach include:

* predicts Allais pendulum effect plus concurrent variability in local time

* predicts slowing of velocity of light in media vs. vacuum

* predicts variations in radio wave propagation night vs. day

* predicts Pioneer effect, Fly-by effect, Mars signal effect

and

* predicts Guth's early inflationary period.

Plus more - while remaining simple. Note that at present this is a mechanistic/functional model, not a mathematical model.