introduction
With Albert Einstein's relativity theories (Special Relativity,1905, and General Relativity, 1915) and with quantum theory physicists have been able to reduce all physical forces in the Universe to four basic types; electromagnetic, gravitational, weak nuclear, and strong nuclear. While three of the forces, electromagnetic, weak nuclear, and strong nuclear have been significantly related to each other through quantum theory, it has not yet been possible to relate all four of these forces to each other in a logical, straight-forward way. I believe that I have come up with an approach to describing physical laws in such a way that a straight forward unification is possible. This approach is based upon an alternative explanation to the presently well accepted explanation of the creation and expansion of the Universe, the "Big Bang" theory. Instead of assuming that the Universe is simply the result of a primordial big bang, assume instead that at one time the Universe existed in a condition of unity, similar to the unity that is assumed to have existed before the big bang, and that time and space as we know it began when the size of space, as measured in terms of the velocity of light, began to contract relative to itself and relative to the overall size of the Universe. With this view there would still be an initial actual expansion of the overall size of the Universe accompanying the initial contraction of the size of space within the Universe, but this would eventually cease and the apparent expansion of the Universe that we observe today would be fully the result of a contraction in the size of space within the Universe. This point of view means that time and space within the Universe began as the result of a "big shrink".
With this view all entities comprised of energy and matter would also contract with time, and at the same rate as does the speed of light, and thus a constant relative size for all entities within the Universe is maintained. An objection that some may have to this concept is that this then means that energy and mass are being lost in the process. However, it is possible that the rate of contraction is only great at the initial stages of the Universe's creation, the first few milli-seconds, when, according to present day thought, the universe expanded at an extreme rate, and  the primordial energy of the initial singularity differentiated into the forms of energy that we perceive now. Thus, in terms of the contraction approach, at this stage there would not be a loss of energy, but instead simply a differentiation, or breaking down, of the primordial energy into present forms of energy. After this stage the rate of contraction can be so small (on the order of 1/T per second, where T is the present age of the Universe in seconds, this rate determined by the calculated size of the Universe and an assumed present day rate of apparent expansion of the Universe of c, the speed of light) that the rate of loss of matter-energy due to contraction would be such that the loss in mass-energy can be accounted for in terms of undetected mass-energy. After all, presently physicists believe that a large portion of the original mass-energy of the Universe is still unaccounted for.
It is also possible to interpret the contraction of space, mass and energy in such a way that no relative mass-energy loss occurs.  One must simply understand the contraction in terms of a continual increase in a relative time dilation that applies to all entities within the Universe, this actually defining each point in time.  Thus, while there would be a decrease in the volume of space that mass and energy occupy as time passes, there would be no decrease in mass and energy, since the increasing time dilation would cause a corresponding increase in mass-energy, this offsetting any loss of mass-energy due to contraction.  This approach will be explained in greater detail later.
On the following pages I will present a radically altered view of our Universe based upon the contraction principle, and also attempt to show that by describing the concepts of special relativity theory in terms of a contracting nature for space it is possible to derive a solution for the problems presented by the quantum nature of motion directly from relativity.  This attempt is not complete and may not be exactly correct in every respect, but I believe that it does show the potential of this approach. If this approach is valid it would constitute the basis for a unified field theory, since all physical phenomena are presently explained in terms of either relativity concepts or quantum theory concepts. I believe that ultimately it can be shown that with the contraction approach all physical laws can be derived with the use of four constants; the velocity of light, pi, Planck's constant, and Tp (which I'll refer to as the age constant, approx. 2 x 10(exp.17)sec, this also equal to 3.6x10^60 Planck time periods, which, when multiplied by 2, is approximately equal to the measured  age of the Universe.
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Richard Quist (copyright @ 1994, 2003)