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General Physics explores the fundamental laws that govern everything from the tiniest subatomic particles to the vastness of the cosmos. This field serves as the bedrock for understanding how the universe operates, covering mechanics, thermodynamics, and electromagnetism without getting bogged down in overly specialized sub-disciplines. It is where the big questions about matter, energy, and force come together to explain the physical world around us.
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The paper introduces a new Lorentz-covariant relativistic action that unifies gravitational and electromagnetic interactions into a single framework, yielding equations of motion consistent with established physical laws while reducing to standard classical mechanics in the appropriate limit.
This paper introduces a framework within Extended Relativity that establishes a Lorentz-covariant superposition principle for gravitational fields in flat spacetime, successfully reproducing standard General Relativity tests while enabling the analysis of multi-source interactions and gravitational radiation.
This paper demonstrates that while rotating frames and gravitomagnetic backgrounds do not generate fundamental microscopic charge non-conservation, they induce an effective, observer-dependent source term in the projected continuity equation that can phenomenologically drive the scalar sector of extended Aharonov-Bohm electrodynamics at mesoscopic and macroscopic scales.
The paper argues that the Unruh effect is non-existent in a causality-enforced quantization of quantum field theory where the vacuum is truly empty, suggesting that the perceived thermal effect in standard models is actually caused by the dynamical action of Lorentz transformations on the detector rather than the vacuum itself.
The paper investigates the motion of spinning, dilating particles in complex geometric backgrounds to demonstrate that their rest mass is not necessarily constant, leading to the discovery of new Regge-like trajectories that relate mass to hypermomentum currents.
This paper proposes a new epistemological framework that treats dynamics as a distribution of mechanical properties over spacetime, using a partition function and path integral formulation to derive a generalized dynamical law that separates the space of physical properties from the space of coordinates.
This paper argues that the thermodynamically validated treatment of the Cartesian product of natural numbers implies a greater cardinality than standard set theory allows, leading to the conclusion that rational numbers are uncountable and suggesting the axiom of choice as a superior foundation for spacetime geometry.
This paper proposes a unified theory extending the Drude model to derive fundamental quantum units of conductance and diffusion for various currents by establishing a connection between Planck's constant and a classical action that accounts for correct statistics, thereby bridging the gap between classical and quantum relativistic transport models.
This paper demonstrates that a classical fluid splitter can reproduce quantum-like correlations, including Tsirelson-type Bell violations, by showing that such phenomena arise from ensemble effects on dynamically inseparable entities rather than intrinsic particle properties, thereby challenging conventional interpretations of Local Realism while remaining consistent with the Correspondence Principle.
This paper introduces a framework of structural approximation that represents Lorentz-invariant Minkowski space-time as the limit of finite cyclic lattices equipped with a finite quasi-Lorentz group, thereby providing a discrete model that preserves Lorentz symmetry.