Alexander Franklin Mayer is an astrophysicist who on December 27, 2005, while working at Stanford University in California, released a complete model of the physics of the universe in which we live. This model builds on top of Einstein's General Relativity theory. It is a very small correction to Einstein's theory, and it explains innumerable examples of discrepencies between what Einstein's General Relativity predicts and what is actually observed.
Since that post, Mayer has been posting chapters from his book On the Geometry of Time in Physics and Cosmology at his Web site. A full manuscript draft became available in November of 2008. The abstract:
The geometric properties of time arising from insights introduced by Hermann Minkowski are discussed. A geometric model of time yields a simpler and more natural explanation of relativistic temporal effects than prevailing ideas and better explains astrophysical empirical observations, including the apparent accelerating expansion of the Universe. It is shown that new accurate and corroborating empirical data from the two largest recent galaxy redshift surveys (2dF and SDSS) is inconsistent with the standard cosmological model, yet provides robust empirical support for a revised model based on temporal geometry arising from the principles of relativity. This dissertation also introduces several innovative and illuminating ideas related to special relativity, general relativity and quantum mechanics.
Alexander Mayer's new theory purportedly debunks over 80 years of accepted scientific belief. If the theory is true then the following concepts and possibly many others would have to be myths, and pursuit of them would have been merely a mathematical exercise, completely divorced from reality.
- Dark Matter
- Black holes as they are traditionally depicted, as an infinitely hot, dense point mass
- The singularity at the center of a black hole
- The Big Bang Theory of cosmic evolution
Alexander Mayer has been working on a potential theory of Quantum Gravity, linked to below, which would replace String Theory.