Overview
The Estes Park workshop paper proposes a quantum-oscillator interpretation of gravitational scaling. It relates radiative damping and available electromagnetic zero-point-field driving power to changes in oscillator behavior, coordinate light speed, clock rates, and ruler lengths. This earlier engineering model provides the historical foundation for the author’s subsequent Operational Quantum Gravity research.
Original publication
Todd J. Desiato, “An Engineering Model of Quantum Gravity,” in Proceedings of the Estes Park Advanced Propulsion Workshop, edited by H. Fearn and L. L. Williams (Space Studies Institute, Inc. Press, 2016), pp. 219–230. Workshop: Estes Park, Colorado, 19–22 September 2016; presentation: 22 September 2016. SSI announced the public release of the proceedings on 12 February 2017.
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