Unified Physics

Requirements for deriving correct physics.

1. It must yield correct predictions but that is not sufficient for correctness. Incorrect theory can give good predictions. It depends on how accurately the equations model patterns observed in direct empirical evidence. It is the patterns that provide the basis for correct predictions. The verbal interpretations of properties often do not matter for the success of models and their predictions.  
   
2. The process for deriving correct physics equations begins with Newton’s f=ma. This is the equation that introduces fundamental cause and effect. The letter f represents force. Force is the generic name for cause. The letter a represents effect in the form of acceleration. Acceleration is the basic form in which effects occur. However, it is the patterns observed in the acceleration of objects that physics is based upon.
   
3. The first property to be formally defined must be mass. Mass establishes the mathematical connection between cause and effect. It is the definition of mass that the rest of physics equations depend upon for their correctness.
   
4. Each property definition must be formed as an equation that sets the property equal to a combination of other properties that have been formerly introduced by direct empirical evidence. For example, the only properties that precede the introduction of mass are length and duration. Duration is what physicists use in place of the immeasurable property of time.
   
5. All equations must show the continued presence of unity. The equation f=ma is fundamentally unified when introduced. It was when mass was declared to be the third indefinable property of physics that fundamental unity was lost from f=ma and the rest of the equations derived using mass. All physics mechanics is based on combinations of the units of kilogram, meter, and second. All physics properties are represented in calculable physics equations solely by their units. It is their units that tell us what is being measured and, therefore, what physicists are learning about.
   
6. There are two types of evidence used to interpret physics properties. One is direct empirical evidence that consists of actual measurements of all properties that are credited with the successful predictions of the theory. The second type of evidence is indirect empirical evidence. This is evidence that is used to explain the meanings of the properties upon which conclusionary predictions are said to depend, but for which there are no direct measurements. An example would be the meanings put forward for how time-dilation and space contraction cause gravity.  There have never been any measurements of either time or space. These two properties have always been substituted for in equations by duration and length. Duration and length are object related properties. Their measurements are dependent upon object activity and object length. The universal properties of time and space have never been directly represented in anyone’s physics equations. The orderly operation of the universe requires the existence of absolute universal time and space. Any inconsistency for either one would cause the universe to go out of existence.