INTRODUCTION
The purpose of the work, The Big Shrink: Book I - Contraction Physics, is to show that the laws
governing the physical reality of the Universe can best be explained when space is described as
contracting in size relative to the overall size of the Universe with the passage of time. This is
plausible since observations show that the size of the Universe seems to be expanding with time,
this due to a "big bang" that supposedly gave birth to the Universe at the beginning of time, and thus,
by simply considering this from the opposite perspective, physical reality within the Universe can be
considered to be shrinking in size with the passage of time relative to the overall size of the
Universe. When it is assumed that entities within the Universe are contracting in size, then physical
reality within the Universe, including space, can be described as having a unique size at each point
in time. This provides the basis for describing the relationship between the physical reality of the
past, present and future in mathematical terms, with the distance scale of the past being larger than
the present, and the distance scale of the future being smaller. This also presents the possibility
that the past, present, and the basic structure of the future can and do exist at all times,
simultaneously. Perception of the past and existing aspects of the future then is only a question of
the capability of the instrument used to perceive them, and not of their existence. In this work I will
attempt to show that the logic guiding the contraction description of the structure of the Universe and
physical reality also presents the possibility of defining life and life experiences, and even
metaphysical concepts, in terms of unique mathematically definable physical structures. These
physical structures can exist independently of what is conventionally termed physical reality (mass,
energy, space), though they would generally be interconnected with physical reality. The physical
reality of these structures can be defined in terms of their rates of expansion and contraction (ex-con
factors) relative to the size of the Universe, just as I've described mass, energy, and space with
these terms in the previous work.