The c-global revival in physics

• Published in: Progress in physics (Rehoboth, N.M.) Vol. 11; no. 4; p. 340
• Main Author: Rossler, Otto E
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Gallup Progress in Physics 01.10.2015
• Subjects: Analysis; Compatibility; Constants; Dilation; Einstein field equations; Enlargement; Evaporation; Gravitation; Gravity; Gravity (Force); Horizontal; Maxwell equations; Maxwell's equations; Physicists; Physics; Quantum electrodynamics; Quantum mechanics; Quantum physics; Speed of light; United States
• ISSN: 1555-5534; 1555-5615

A return is proposed to the 6-years-long period before Einstein gave up on the global constancy of the speed of light c in the vacuum. c-global remains implicit in Maxwell's equations and in quantum electrodynamics. Reluctantly, Einstein abandoned c-global in 1911 after a 3 1/2 years long silence kept on gravitation during which he had tried in vain to avoid the conclusion that c is only an everywhere locally but not a globally valid constant of nature. It is shown that Einstein just overlooked a corollary to his own finding of an optically reduced speed of an horizontal light ray downstairs in his constantly accelerating long rocketship in outer space. The new corollary reads: slantedness relative to the tip of the locally horizontal light ray. Hence Einstein's famous gravitational redshift--the increase in wavelength compared to above of a vertically emitted light ray--is accompanied by a proportional enlargement of space. The new horizontal size increase is masked from above by the upwards slant valid relative to the tip. Einstein's gravitational time dilation thus goes hand in hand with an equal gravitational space dilation. Surprisingly, Quantum Mechanics enforces the same conclusion independently: the reduced energy of the locally normal-appearing photons downstairs generates (via Quantum Mechanics' creation and annihilation operators) atoms of a proportionally reduced mass and hence proportionally enlarged size. Two disappointing implications follow: c-global rules out both cosmological space expansion and black hole evaporation. The uplifting third implication is: c-global makes the equivalence principle compatible with Quantum Mechanics for the first time. This new compatibility predictably extends to the implied "c-global-rescaled General Relativity". Hence the "holy grail of physics" is bound to exist. The cgr-GR only waits to be written down.