Mike McCulloch’s new book: Quantised Accelerations

I’ll be posting a review of this new book in a week or so. In the meantime, Mike has posted the following intro on his Patreon page:

These are exciting times for Quantised Inertia (QI). I’ve just published a paper, my first in three years, showing that the only dynamical model that can predict the orbit of our closest neighbour in space, Proxima Centauri, is, surprise, surprise QI! This paper was just accepted and published by MNRAS, the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, no less (Open access).

Also, my new book on quantised inertia, entitled ‘Quantised Accelerations’, is available from Amazon next month, on the 15th July (see references below).

I’ve been working on this book for seven years, and it is, I hope, nothing less than an empirical reboot for theoretical physics. Like Gaul, in Caesar’s eyes, the book is divided into three parts:

In the first part I have no mercy on the standard model of physics and I discuss 54 observed anomalies that prove that old physics just can’t cope anymore. These range from the large-scale cosmic acceleration which makes a mockery of conservation of energy in physics, down through the well-known galaxy rotation problem that gave rise to the need for the awfully arbitrary dark matter, the wayward asteroid Oumuamua & GPS satellites, down through laboratory thrust oddities, the Abraham-Minkowski paradox, the long running controversy of cold fusion and the proton radius anomaly. This is a scale range from 10^-15 to 10^26 metres!

Then, just when you are giving up hope that any physics can explain these diverse anomalies, I introduce quantised inertia and show that it predicts what people have been calling the usual property of inertia, but with a slight change that predicts the anomalies as well. It gets rid of the gravitational constant, G, which turns out to be the speed of light squared times the cosmic scale divided by its mass. Happily, one less constant to learn at university (I always found it to be a perfectly acceptable constant but with Frankenstein units).

Just as you are breathing a sign of relief that physics might look up from its invisible entities and untestable strings, I introduce all the applications of QI which include much better satellite thrusters, the ability to get to Proxima Centauri (yes, the same) in less than 15 or so years, self-thrusting materials, FTL comms and a possible way to generate energy from it.

My overall goal is to put physics back into its best mode: first look, then think, then get busy!

References

Paper: McCulloch, M.E., 2024. Testing Quantised inertia on Proxima Centauri. MNRAS, 352, 1, L67-69. https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/article/532/1/L67/7682393

Book: McCulloch, M.E., 2024. Quantised Accelerations: from anomalies to new physics. Polaris Books. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Quantised-Accelerations-Anomalies-New-Physics/dp/B0D53HLDD3