GR without SR: A gravitational-domain description of first-order Doppler effects
Abstract
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Equivalence principles are a major part of modern relativity theory. Gravitational shifts can already be calculated within the time domain as motion shifts, and we examine the consequences of reversing this argument and describing motion shifts outside the time domain, as effects of curvature associated with relative velocity. This unusual "Doppler mass shift" approach appears to resolve some of Einstein's own criticisms of the "SR+GR" model and seems to remove some barriers to the reconciliation of classical and quantum theory. The disadvantage of this model is that constant-velocity problems no longer obey Euclidean geometry. By bypassing special relativity and the special theory's flat-space assumptions, the model also suggests an alternative non-transverse frequency-shift relationship. This difference should be testable.
HTML+GIF, with three GIF equations and three GIF figures, 58 refs. ~6500-word discussion of a radical approach to merging classical and quantum models
HTML+GIF, with three GIF equations and three GIF figures, 58 refs. ~6500-word discussion of a radical approach to merging classical and quantum models