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The Unified Field Theory
http://milesmathis.com/uft.html

1. We will start with Newton's equation. Newton's famous gravity equation is a heuristic equation, and Newton admitted that from the very beginning.
2. F = GMm/R^2
3. Neither the numerator nor the denominator were chosen for theoretical reasons. They were chosen because they work.
4. Newton and others could see that there was a drop off, and given the barebones theory of gravity, they could see that it needed to be exponential. Two was the first exponent to try, and it worked, so mission accomplished.
5. in this case, the fact that a heuristic equation so quickly became dogma was very bad for physics and the theory of gravity. The equation became the theory and no one ever felt it necessary to create a real theory—one that could tell us why the masses were multiplied or why the exponent of R was 2, for example.
6. If force is really due to acceleration and mass alone, as Newton said (and as I still accept), we shouldn't expect the gravitational equation to look like it does. For one thing, we seem to have more force than we have mass capable of producing it. We have a mass times a mass, which is always going to be more than a mass plus a mass. How can we have more mass in our equation than we have in our field? It doesn't make sense. Then we have a distance in the denominator instead of the numerator. In the basic force equation
7. F = ma = ms/t^2
8. the distance is in the numerator. Again, somewhat strange. But strangest of all is the constant G, a tiny number with lots of mysterious parameters.
9. G = 6.67 x 10^-11m^3/kgs^2
10. I have already done part of the ... work in my paper on the Universal Gravitational Constant. There I show that part of the dirty work G does is in allowing Newton to create a dimension called mass. Newton gives the dimensions [to G that] he should have given to mass.... So the first thing we can do in our housecleaning is dump that ad hoc dimension m, returning to length and time. Maxwell showed in one of his papers* that mass can be expressed as length^3/time^2 (L^3/T^2), and if we do that then G loses most of its mystery. G loses all its dimensions, and force is then L^4/T^4 or (V^2)^2. Force becomes a velocity squared squared.