Ebook: The lightness of being: mass, ether, and the unification of forces

Explores current scientific thinking on how matter and energy interact, discussing the structure of space as a dynamic Grid that creates physical matter, and examining core theory, which attempts to reconcile gravity with electromagnetism and nuclear forces.;The origin of mass. Getting to it ; Newton's Zeroth Law ; Einstein's Second Law ; What matters for matter ; The hydra within ; The bits within the its ; Symmetry incarnate ; The grid (persistence of ether) ; Computing matter ; The origin of mass ; Music of the grid : a poem in two equations ; Profound simplicity -- The feebleness of gravity. Is gravity feeble? Yes, in practice ; Is gravity feeble? No, in theory ; The right question ; A beautiful answers -- Is beauty truth? Unification : the siren's song ; Unification : through a glass, darkly ; Truthification ; Unification [heart] SUSY ; Anticipating a new golden age -- A smooth pebble, a pretty shell -- Appendix A. Particles have mass, the world has energy -- Appendix B. The multilayered, multicolored cosmic superconductor -- Appendix C. From "not wrong" to (maybe) right.