Physicists have always tried to explain how gravity works on a structural level. We are now able to calculate with unmatched precision the paths of projectiles through the air and even the trajectories of the planetary bodies through the solar system. All the formulas have been written and proven, but the reason for Gravitation eludes us still. Modern physics tells of a massless particle called a graviton that "transmits" the force of gravitation. Somehow, this explanation has always struck me as strange and anti-climactic. The idea that a particle orbiting a quark has to move away from it to "bring" energy and information to another quark seems ad hoc. What happens when this particle is not present? Surely in all likelihood that must happen, that an atom losing its force carrying particles...
Of course, some would say, why would you expect the Universe to conform to your human expectations of order and hierarchy? Well, simply speaking, all the physical laws of the past have been explain using deep explanations about the very nature of the universe. They have shed real light on the mysteries of the world we live in. I refuse to let the mystery of gravitation be put aside by the assumption of a yet undetected particle which magically transmits force and direction to the whole of another atom. Quantum Mechanics it seems, does not satisfy my Relativistic Spirit.
Well, if it's not a particle-transmitted force, I ask myself, "What KIND of explanation would I consider to be satisfactory?" Well, that's easy, a structural explanation. By structure I mean making a statement about the behavior of the whole of the universe by means of identifying a natural law, a natural action.
First, we must stop conceptualizing space and matter as two separate things. They are one in the same. Space is matter, and matter is space. Think of space as a a clear 3-dimensional substance, like water. Water, to us, is a continuous mass of stuff which has a finite space, it cannot go into itself, and no mater what you do to it, if you keep it enclosed, you will not end up with more or less than what you started from. Space is like Water. Matter is that water, but folded into itself, so it gains a shape which seems to stand apart from the rest of the water. Matter is space that has been folded into itself, and thus, "floats" on top of the water. These structures of floating space have very regular building blocks, but their different combinations can create a vast multitude of effects, like the way a few amino acids make up very complex proteins. A very few "elements" of floatspace create all of the effects of the weak and strong forces, chemical bonds, charges, electromagnetism, etc.
Gravitation is different from all these, it has not to do with the structure of the floatspace, but to do with the flow of the water space from the past, a high potential position, to the future, a position of lower energy. To understand this, you must again reconceptualize the idea of floatspace. Floatspace in space folding in on itself. Maintaining the folded shape of the waterspace takes a constant input of energy which is in a sense "used up" by the continuation of the floatspace. If energy(waterspace flowing down -> into the future) were to stop flowing into the floatspace, the shape would evaporate, the being, the matter would dissipate and vanish. One could imagine an experiment using a spherical floatspace "dam" to surround a separate piece of floatspace which would theoretically be cut off from the constant flow of waterspace. If my theory is correct, the dam would cause the targeted floatspace to revert to waterspace, thus creating space itself. One would think that this would release a great amount of energy. However, it would be evident that matter was converted back into energy, but without an explosion, simply with the unfurling of the folds which had previously never been cut off from their constant input of energy. How this would translate into our conceptions of matter and time are as of yet unimaginable to me. I can only say that I will know it when I see it.
So, gravitation becomes the constant swallowing up of waterspace by floatspace. Matter is eating the energy from space in order to preserve its being by constantly refilling itself. That is why bodies of matter move towards each other in a vacuum. Space itself is being used up as energy. The reason floatspace cannot eat floatspace is because it has evolved in a way that it can only intake energy that will fit into the "mouth" of the elementary shapes that make up all matter. Other Floatspace objects do not physically fit.
Disclaimer: I did not do any research. This is an exercise in creativity. It is a thought experiment. What I am trying to accomplish is to see the world in a new way, a way no other person has seen it before, and try to gain understanding of it by fundamentally rewiring the way we think the universe is supposed to work.
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