
Gravity, Special Relativity, and the Strong Force
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Summary
Table of Contents
1905-1930: The Golden Age of Physics | p. 1 |
The Three Major Breakthroughs | p. 1 |
Open Problems | p. 1 |
A Common Starting Point for Natural Scientists: The Bohr Model for the H Atom | p. 4 |
Deterministic and Probabilistic Models | p. 7 |
Newton's Gravitational Law, Special Relativity, and the Equivalence Principle | p. 8 |
Relativistic Rotating Particle Models for Hadrons | p. 9 |
Synopsis | p. 12 |
References | p. 12 |
Mass, Special Relativity and the Equivalence Principle | p. 15 |
The Concept of Mass | p. 15 |
The Equivalence Principle | p. 16 |
Rest, Relativistic, Inertial, and Gravitational Mass in Special Relativity: Some Questions | p. 17 |
Newton's Gravitational Law, Velocity and General Relativity | p. 18 |
Quantum Gravity | p. 20 |
Synopsis | p. 21 |
References | p. 22 |
The Strong Force: From Quarks to Hadrons and Nuclei | p. 23 |
The Strong Force | p. 23 |
Classical and Quantized Fields | p. 23 |
The Mediation Mechanism | p. 24 |
History and the Postulate of Color Charge | p. 24 |
Properties of the Strong Force | p. 25 |
The Residual Strong Force | p. 25 |
Quantum Chromodynamics | p. 27 |
Synopsis | p. 28 |
References | p. 28 |
The World of Particles and the Standard Model | p. 31 |
Elementary Particles | p. 31 |
History | p. 31 |
The Standard Model of Elementary Particles | p. 33 |
Leptons | p. 36 |
Charged Leptons | p. 36 |
Neutrinos | p. 36 |
Hadrons | p. 42 |
The Standard Model Taxonomy of Hadrons | p. 45 |
Hadron Masses | p. 45 |
Hadron Angular Momenta | p. 46 |
Synopsis | p. 48 |
References | p. 48 |
The Equivalence Principle, Special Relativity, and Newton's Gravitational Law | p. 51 |
The Weak Equivalence Principle | p. 51 |
Special Relativity | p. 53 |
Implications of the Special Relativity: Length Contraction and Time Dilation | p. 53 |
Transformation of Velocities | p. 55 |
Accelerated Motions | p. 56 |
Forces in Relativistic Mechanics | p. 57 |
Newton's Universal Gravitational Law | p. 61 |
The Synthesis of Newton's Gravitational Law, Equivalence Principle, and Special Relativity | p. 62 |
Einstein's Equivalence Principle and Strong Equivalence Principle | p. 64 |
Synopsis | p. 65 |
References | p. 65 |
The Three and Two Rotating Neutrino Models: Particle Confinement by Gravity | p. 67 |
Requirements for a Satisfactory Hadron Formation Model | p. 67 |
The Inertial and Gravitational Mass of Fast Neutrinos | p. 68 |
The Three-Neutrino Model | p. 69 |
Equivalence Principle and Inertial Mass | p. 70 |
The Classical Mechanical Problem | p. 72 |
The de Broglie Wavelength Expression and Consistency with Quantum Mechanics | p. 73 |
Numerical Substitutions | p. 75 |
The Two-Neutrino Model | p. 78 |
Summarizing Remarks | p. 81 |
Synopsis | p. 82 |
References | p. 82 |
Energy and Other Properties of the Rotational States | p. 85 |
Potential, Translational, and Total Energy of the Neutrinos | p. 85 |
Properties of the Bound States | p. 88 |
Rest Energy and Binding Energy | p. 88 |
Radii and Lorentz Factors ¿ | p. 88 |
Lifetimes and Rotational Periods | p. 89 |
Spins and Charges | p. 89 |
Magnetic Moments | p. 91 |
Inertial Mass and Angular Momentum | p. 92 |
Gravitational Force | p. 93 |
Summary of the Comparison with Experiment | p. 94 |
Gravitational Constant | p. 95 |
Energy-Curvature Dependence and General Relativity | p. 95 |
Model Consistency with General Relativity: Kerr Black Holes | p. 97 |
Synopsis | p. 98 |
References | p. 99 |
Gravitational Hadronization: How Mass Can Be Produced from Gravity | p. 101 |
The Generation of Rest Mass by the Kinetic Energy of the Constituents of a Confined State | p. 101 |
Thermodynamics of Neutrino and Quark-Gluon Plasma Condensation | p. 104 |
Synopsis | p. 105 |
References | p. 105 |
Model Comparison with the Main Experimental Features of the Strong Interaction Force | p. 107 |
Quarks, Gluons, and Color Charge | p. 107 |
Quarks | p. 108 |
Gluons | p. 109 |
Color Charge | p. 109 |
Confinement and Asymptotic Freedom | p. 109 |
Scattering Cross Sections and Hadron Jets | p. 110 |
Synopsis | p. 111 |
References | p. 111 |
The Bohr-de Broglie Approach in Physics: The Dual Nature of Matter | p. 113 |
Merits | p. 113 |
Limitations | p. 116 |
Charged Baryons | p. 117 |
Synopsis | p. 119 |
References | p. 120 |
Gravity at Relativistic Velocities and Dark Matter | p. 121 |
Dark Matter in Galaxies | p. 121 |
Newton's Gravitational Law and Special Relativity | p. 121 |
Virial Theorem and Dark Matter | p. 122 |
Alternate Explanations | p. 123 |
Gravity Modification | p. 123 |
Gravitational Mass | p. 124 |
Neutrinos in Space | p. 125 |
Synopsis | p. 125 |
References | p. 125 |
Force Unification: Is the Strong Force Simply Gravity? | p. 127 |
Coupling Constants: Facts and Expectations | p. 127 |
Gravitational Coupling Constants | p. 129 |
Synopsis | p. 134 |
References | p. 135 |
Epilogue | p. 137 |
References | p. 138 |
A Natural Constant Symbols and Values | p. 139 |
Index | p. 141 |
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