Substance of Spacetime Table of Contents

Introduction

Spacetime

  • The Void
  • Infinity
  • Eternity
  • Ex Nihilo – The Eternal Dialectic
  • Collapse
  • The Cosmological Constant
  • Substance (A Brief Overview)

Protons

  • The Big Bang
  • Deceleration
  • Protogenesis
  • Proton Spin
  • Termination Shock
  • Derivative Axes
  • Energy States
  • The Electronic Shell
  • Intrinsic and Extrinsic Mass

Neutrons

Astrophysics

  • Very Large Stars
  • Black Holes
  • Spiral Galaxy Rotation (Dark Matter)
  • Frame Dragging
  • Cosmic Microwave Background
  • Cosmic Expansion (Dark Energy)
  • Big Rip
  • Large Stars
  • Neutron Stars
  • Stellar Magnetic Fields
  • Pulsars
  • Variable Stars
  • White Dwarfs
  • Red Giants
  • The Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud

Atomic Nuclei

  • Hydrogen
  • Gravity in Atomic Matter
  • Neutron Decay
  • Deuterium
  • The Strong Nuclear Force
  • Nuclear Magnetic Moment
  • Mass Defect

Multinucleonic Atoms

  • Atoms
  • Magic Numbers
  • The Neutron Core
  • Proton Orbitals
  • The Limits of Reductionism
  • Mock Simulations
  • Period Two
  • Lithium
  • Beryllium
  • Boron
  • Carbon
  • Nitrogen
  • Oxygen
  • Fluorine
  • Neon
  • Ionization

Light

  • Revenge of the Aether
  • Back to the Future
  • Derivative Axes, Revisited
  • Energy State Transitions
  • Heat
  • Brownian Motion
  • Light Absorption
  • Entanglement
  • Frequency
  • Phase
  • Spin
  • Amplitude
  • The Frequency/Energy Illusion

Chemical Bonds

  • The H2 Bond
  • Bond Energy
  • Methane
  • Water
  • Carbon Dioxide
  • Ammonia
  • Monovalent Bonds
  • Lithium Fluoride
  • Xenon Fluorides
  • Larger Orbitals

Complexity

  • First Order Systems
  • Second Order Systems
  • Nth Order Systems
  • Instability
  • Collapse
  • Very Small Numbers
  • Rise and Fall of the Thermohaline Circulation
  • Ice Age
  • The Younger Dryas
  • Preventing the Next Ice Age

Radioactive Decay

  • Back to Basics
  • The Nuclide Chart
  • Nucleonic Variability
  • Destabilization
  • Decay
  • Multiple Decay Routes

Cosmology

  • Cosmic Inflation
  • Cosmological Constant Problem
  • Extra Dimensions
  • Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Ray
  • Coronal Heating Problem
  • The Lithium Problem
  • Nuclear Forces
  • Entropy (Arrow of T