TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

1. INTRODUCTION

2. PREPARATION OF PERSPECTIVE

2.1. The distance-time premise

2.2. Distance-time theory's unique idea of space

2.3. The finite speed of space

2.4. Visualizing the finite speed of space within the human mind

2.5. A major motivation for the creation of distance-time theory

2.6. New testable predictions only made by distance-time theory

3. DISTANCE-TIME THEORY

3.1. Distance-time

3.2. Eventons

3.3. Distance-time manifold

3.4. Scalar coordinate

3.5. Rest speed

3.6. Distinct sets of events for every point t

3.7. Motion

3.8. The finite speed of space and the inverse speed of time

3.9. The finite speed of space versus the expansion of the universe

3.10. A here-now

3.11. A here-now never overlaps space

3.12. The effect of two distinct incidents on each other

3.13. Measuring a distance between two distinct locations at the same point of time relative to me

3.14. Rod and clock measurements

3.15. The speed of rod measurements

3.16. Dilation of distance-time

3.17. Visible space

3.18. Reference frame motion of speeds slower than c

3.19. Speed limit

3.20. A perspective of a three-dimensional distance-time manifold

3.21. Relative motion's effect on rod and clock measurements

3.22. Perceiving the distance-time idea

3.23. Time is never a vector

3.24 The classical fourth dimension

4. DERIVATION OF SPECIAL RELATIVITY

4.1. The necessity of deriving special relativistic results

4.2. The second postulate of special relativity

4.3. The first postulate of special relativity

4.4. Relativistic kinematics

4.5. A matter-wave at rest

4.6. Doppler effect of matter

4.7. Different here-nows for different reference frames

4.8. Does matter have a memory?

4.9. What about a light cone?

5. PHOTONIC DISTANCE-TIME

5.1. Nonmatter reference frames traveling at speed c

5.2. Photonic distance-time

5.3. The global here-now

6. PROBABILITY AND TRAVEL VIA A HERE-NOW

6.1. The probability of a particle's location

6.2. Travel via a here-now

6.3. The causality paradoxes' solution for travel via a here-now

6.4. The speed of quantum tunneling

6.5. What is waving?

7. DISCUSSION

7.1. Conclusion

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