I Have Found The "Holy Grail" !

Weary of humbling myself any longer, I post the following.

Yes, I have solved the riddle of gravity; successfully unifying
gravity with the other forces of nature, and obtaining, thereby, the
theorist's long sought "Holy Grail" of physics - no less than the
Grand Unified-Field Theory that Einstein himself was searching for.

And I am proud that I have done this, though I am considered so
unqualified to do such a thing that my achievement has been, and will
likely continue to be, summarily denounced as "pseudo-science"
and "nonsense" by many a mainstream physicist.

Please note that I do not have a high-level degree in physics.
I do library research as a hobby, and theoretical physics is my
primary area of personal concentration.
[I actually do have a 3-year AS degree, with a dual major in math and
computers, and I am 9 semester-hours from completing major course
requirements for a BS in applied physics. I am also a very highly
experienced industrial engineer, with three technical certifications
(in electrical, electronics, and refrigeration), but I have been
doing library research in theoretical physics as a serious avocation
for more than 30 years. Nevertheless, I must admit that I do not
formally have an "advanced" degree in anything.]

So, if you are the kind of reader who would rather not consider the
work of someone who cannot wave a big degree around, then you can
discount what I have to say right now, go your merry way, and assume
that I have nothing important to reveal to you.
[And, of course, few like-minded people would blame you.]

But if you allow a person's work to stand on its own merit, and are
willing to admit that sometimes even an amateur can discover
something significant, then I invite you to read on.

I have a thesis on quantum gravity, which amounts to my version of
superluminal gravitation; i.e., the idea that gravity is faster than
light, and is therefore a tachyonic force.
I do not call the thesis a "theory" yet, due to the present lack of
experimental confirmation for it, but I am convinced of its validity
because of the power it has in explaining a large number of
astronomical observations and laboratory experiments that focus on
the many and varied aspects of gravity.

The notion that gravity is faster-than-light is not original to me,
but I have created an original method of representing gravity
mathematically as due to a very special kind of tachyon which I have
named the "Imaginary Gravitational Exchange Tachyon", or "IGET".

For an abbreviated version of my thesis, click the
"Tachyonic Gravity" link at www.TachyonicsSociety.com.
There you will see why I feel that I can boast of having solved the
riddle of gravity.

Indeed, if I may be so bold, it has become evident that I have found
a way to unify gravity with the other forces of nature, using gauge-
field theory, and which has resulted in a surprisingly simple
mathematical equation from which all of the laws of physics can be
derived.

To reiterate, I believe that I can now lay claim to having found
the "Holy Grail" of theoretical physics; the correct formulation for
a Grand Unified Field Theory, in which all four of the fundamental
forces of nature can be represented in a single algebraic
expression - the word "correct" indicating that the formulation is
consistent with all unbiased experimental and observational
information we have on gravity.

[For the complete 7-page thesis, go to
http://hometown.aol.com/TachyonicGravity/TLQTtGR01.html.]

The eqation is so simple, in fact, that I can explain it quite
briefly, as follows.

First, let the letter z denote the full Grand Unified Field
representation (the sum of the separate gauge-field representations),
and let x denote the Unified Field that has already been devised by
physicists using gauge-field theory, in which the strong and the weak
nuclear forces are unified with electromagnetism.

Next, let y denote the gravitational representation, but not
involving the usuall spin-2 massless graviton. Rather, let y be
viewed analogous to the imaginary-number part of a complex number,
and in which gravity is tachyonic in nature; mediated by spinless,
waveless, uncharged, nonmagnetic, infinitessimally small and
pointlike tachyons, which travel absolute straight-line paths through
space (after being created), and which, by virtue of their reversed
causality, impart an attraction (a pull) towards their source-mass
while passing through other masses, and through massless photons
(because tachyonic radiation pressure is negative).

Then z can be defined; z = x + iy , where i is a new
imaginary-unit, defined, as a matter of convention, as an operator
which transforms y into a tachyonic analog of itself; the
variable "y" representing the Klein-Gordon Lagrangian for a scalar
spin-0 field, customized for this purpose, or, if you prefer, the
standard Newtonian (Classical) vector-field function for gravity,
which can be equated (as I show in my thesis) to the sum of small
amounts of causally-reversed momenta given-up by the IGETs as they
pass through objects in space while traveling along their Euclidean-
straight paths to an infinite distance from their source.

Another stipulation in the said convention, of course, is that the
speed of the IGETs must stay between lightspeed and infinite speed,
exclusively, so that infinities will not be introduced into the
equations of motion.

And there you have it; a concise summary of the main concepts
presented in my thesis.

Yes, this is an imaginary scenario. But it does fit reality.
Specifically, if you write down all of the basic attributes that a
quantum of gravity must have, along with all of the hypothetical
particles that have been proposed to explain quantum gravity
(including gravitons, the entities suggested by Loop-Space theorists,
string-like things, etc.) [assuming you do not demand that gravity
requires no quanta at all], and then you make objective comparisons,
you will see (as I did, some time ago), that the type of tachyon (the
IGET) that I have described in my thesis fits with the requirements
of modern quantum mechanics better than any other particle, because
it is the only virtual particle that meets all of the criteria for
the quanta of gravity that is needed by particle physicists to unify
gravity with the other forces in the preferred form - a complete
and empirical gauge-field theory.

Not convinced? Consider this. Since the acceptance of Einstein's
theory of General Relativity (GR) [which uses Riemannian geometry to
describe the curvature of space due to the presence of mass], the
standard model of gravity has been GR given along with an assumed
(and imposed by hand, though not necessary) gauge-field theory for
gravity taken as a quadrupole analog of dipole electromagnetism, and
in which the mediating quanta, instead of virtual photons, are spin-2
massless bosons named "gravitons". Yet, try as they might, for all
of this time, theorists (including Einstein himself) have been unable
to satisfactorily unify gravity with the other forces in this way,
because this particular model has several major shortcomings.

For instance, the equations representing the graviton-based
formulation of quantum gravity are not such that they can be blended
with GR. The two sets of equations are simply taken as coexisting,
as it were, in the model, but cannot actually be unified (despite
what String theorists say), because GR is a deterministic,
macrocosmic, geometric theory that does not work at the subatomic
distances (down to the Planck length) at which quantum mechanics
works so very well (using probabilities). Also, the graviton-based
quantum theory of gravity is not renormalizable (due to divergencies
that occur when applying the Feynman rules), and renormalization is
considered an important requirement for unification, when using gauge-
field theory to describe particles and their interactions quantum-
mechanically.

The tachyonic-gravity hypothesis, however, using my IGET model,
solves these problems, by (1) supplying a way for GR and quantum
mechanics to be linked, theoretically, without having to modify
either theory (so that it is even possible to derive one from the
other), and (2) by removing the need for renormalization, since the
IGET model (by means of the convention about the new imaginary-unit
used to describe the IGETs) is, from its very inception, represented
using gauge-field theory (i.e., the Klein-Gordon Lagrangian for a
spin-0 scalar field) in a formulation that is already compatible with
the existing renormalized theories of the other forces of nature
(using electro-weak theory and quantum chromodynamics).

Furthermore, the IGET model makes gravity a mathematical imaginary,
compared to the other forces, which is more true to the way in which
we observe gravity behaving in reality.

Of all the fundamental forces, though gravity was the first to be
recognized and studied systematically, it remains the most
inigmatic. Perhaps the reason is that it works in an alternate-
dimensional frame; i.e., its quanta are faster-than-light.

Still not convinced? Try this. Take the standard model of gravity,
involving GR with an assumed spin-2 graviton field, and where the
graviton travels at lightspeed (c). Now, replace the standard
graviton with its tachyonic analog (the same except that it travels
at 1.00...001c, where the number of zeros to the right of the decimal-
point are unknown). In such a case, because the speeds of the
graviton and its analog are so close, the mathematical form of the
quadrupole model is preserved, but it is rendered imaginary with
respect to the other forces of nature.

And that would be quite reasonable, even more empirical, though the
problem of renormalization remains. This requirement is eliminated,
however, if we change the field structure from that of a quadrupole
to that of a monopole, in analogy to a standard magnetic monopole
(which just happens to make the model renomalizable), though we must
still use tachyonic analogs of this field's virtual photons (or we
would be saying that gravity is a magnetic monopole, which should be
verifiable experimentally, but, of course, since magnetic monopoles
do not exist, there is no evidence for that particular case).

So, the tachyonic analog of a magnetic monopole works great as a
renormalizable model of quantum gravity, using gauge-field theory,
because, as is well known, a tachyon's causality is reversed
(relative to normal causality), so that all tachyonic magnetic
monopoles of the same sign will attract each other (just as all
normal magnetic monopoles of the same sign would repell each other).

But there are problems with this model too. For one thing, the model
compels us to predict that there is a sink at infinity for every
source (each bit of mass), and, for another thing, we must
correspondingly predict that a source emitting standard photons, and
of the sign opposite to that which is prevalent in our universe,
exists in a tachyonic universe, for each of whose sources there must
exist a sink in our universe, though we somehow do not see them.

Obviously, such predictions do not seem reasonable. And, to be sure,
it is usually true that Mother Nature prefers the simplest of the
most effective among all possible ways of doing things.

Yet, we know we are almost on the right track here, because we have
finally found a gauge-field model that works better than the standard
graviton model. All we need is a way to eliminate the source-vs.-
sink problem; or, more to the point, to get rid of the need for
sources and sinks at infinity altogether.

This is accomplished by taking the lightspeed restriction away, so
that the quanta of gravity can travel at a speed somewhere between c
and infinite speed, which, necessarily, involves replacing the
tachyonic analog of the massless quanta with a tachyon that will do
the same job, but which needs no sink at infinity, and for which
there does not have to be a corresponding source of opposite sign in
tachyonic spacetime.

Enter the Imaginary Gravitational Exchange Tachyon; the IGET.

In truth, the description of the IGET that I originally came up with
almost 20 years ago (and which has not changed very much in the last
10 of those years) was based almost entirely on the properties needed
by a mediator of a gauge-field that is consistent with every aspect
of gravity we know of that can be listed without reference to the
assumptions about gravity that are common to the other quanta that
have been suggested as causing gravitational attractions.

Indeed, when I first compiled that list (which included Newtonian
gravity locally, GR macrocosmically, and many easily verifiable
natural observations, along with all of the relavent astronomical
information I could find), I was not thinking of tachyons. I just
studied them along with the other possible candidates; gravitons,
photons, gluons, strings, loops, and so on. Yet, it became clear
very quickly that a special kind of tachyon, which I had not yet
named, was the only possible candidate for the quantum of gravity
that fulfills all of the criteria on the list, without fail.

And I have been working on my thesis since that very day; eventually
arriving at the representation that works best, after many years of
struggle with the mathematics and the overall conceptualization, in
which the difficulties forced me to realize that the mathematical
tools I had to hand were not adequate. And that is how I came to
invent the new imaginary-unit I mentioned above, which I call
the "imagination unit", but which others have referred to
as "Richter's tachyon operator".

Whatever it is called, it worked. And it has allowed me to solve the
riddle of gravity, and to be confident enough in my accomplishment to
proudly proclaim that I Have Found The "Holy Grail" !

[Again, a summary of my thesis is accessed under "Tachyonic Gravity"
at www.TachyonicsSociety.com.]