Author(s)

Eugene Terry Tatum

Independent Researcher, Bowling Green, KY, USA.

This brief note introduces the conceptual framework of special and general relativity isoclocks and isoframes. Isoclocks and isoframes, as defined herein, can be used to create geometrical maps of space and time (“space-time”) with and without matter embedded. They are useful for having a mental picture of space-time relationships without having to picture 4-dimensional manifolds, which very few students and scientists are able to do. With the aid of the optical lensing definition of curvature as inverse radius, a new gravitational force equation is derived, which also incorporates Einstein’s mass/energy relation in the m_x term. Thus, one may see how it is that gravitational force correlates with its time-embedded curvature-squared (C_x²) space in a more accurate formulation than could be envisioned by Newton. This becomes more apparent in high gamma fields, such as found near a black hole horizon. It is hoped that probability theories, such as quantum field theories in curved space-time, might be adaptable to the general relativity isoframe concept introduced herein.

Isoframe, Isoclock, General Relativity, Special Relativity, Space-Time, Black Holes, Krogdahl, Unification

Tatum, E. (2021) Relativity Isoframes—A Useful and Potentially Unifying Conceptual Framework. Journal of Modern Physics, 12, 731-738. doi: 10.4236/jmp.2021.126046.