Friends, scientists, wackos and lurkers, lend me your minds.
I come bury Einstein, not to praise him.
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General Relativity is closely associated with space and mass.
The Equivalence Principle is mass oriented,
and the Riemannian Metric is space oriented.
I assert that the fundamental unit, of
information and perception, is the cycle.
Time is one step removed from fundamental reality ( cycles):
time(X) = cycles(reference) / cycles(X)
Cycles are fundamental, time is a cycle ratio.
while space is two steps removed:
distance(X) = time(X) * C
Space is time multiplied by a constant "C".
and mass is even further removed.
mass(A) = distance(B)^3 / time^2 / G
mass(B) = distance(A)^3 / time^2 / G
Mass is an expression of space and time,
multiplied by a constant "G".
One body's media ( Space-time) is another body's mass
and vice versa.
Note that mass not only is a more complex expression
of time and space, but a second "point" or body
is also needed to define it.
General Relativity gives mass a dominate role,
and indicates that space and time are distorted by it.
No place is given to cycles.
I assert that the cycle is the fundamental unit of information.
Time is a cycle ratio,
space is fundamentally interaction time
multiplied by the "speed of light", and that
mass is an even more complex blend of time and space.
General Relativity suggests that
mass distorts time and space.
I assert that mass is a distortion of space-time,
rather than than vice versa, and that space and time
are complex expressions of cycles and cycle ratios.
Rather than looking forward
from less complex to more complex,
from cycles, to time, to space, to mass,
and examining the relationships between each step,
GR provides a backwards,
distorted look at time and space.
It is analogous to using the carbon mass
as the basic unit of mass,
and defining the other atoms and particles in terms of it.
It can be made to work,
but it unnecessarily complicates the problem.
http://www.tompotter.us/relativ.html