I don't know whether I am getting closer to or farther from the truth. But I am definitely getting somewhere.
Despite an overwhelming amount of legal work sitting on my desk, I have been preoccupied with my evolving theory of gravity. It claims my attention anytime I am not focused on more pressing business. My mind is working on it even in my sleep.
One day this week, I woke up with a new insight and so I published it. Basically, it applies my previous theory about gravity to the realm of atoms. It is online at http://academia.wikia.com/wiki/The_Apple_Stopped_Here.
I do not have any real validation for my ideas other than logic and intuition. My theory just makes sense to me. In sum, I think that the Big Bang is causing the force of gravity.
In other words, when you see objects moving through space, you are seeing the Big Bang in action. That applies to the planets circling our sun and the electrons circling atomic nuclei. The Big Bang set everything in motion, and gravity is the effect of that matter slowing down. That effect is measured as weight.
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
If a tree falls in the forest . . . .
Yes, the falling tree makes a sound even if nobody is there to hear it.
And so it is with my notion that gravity is the effect of the Big Bang moving matter throughout the universe. Even if nobody is listening, it is still happening. I am convinced of it.
I think Newton would agree. In Newton's 1713 General Scholium in the second edition of Principia, he said:
"I have not yet been able to discover the cause of these properties of gravity from phenomena and I feign no hypotheses... It is enough that gravity does really exist and acts according to the laws I have explained, and that it abundantly serves to account for all the motions of celestial bodies... That one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one another, is to me so great an absurdity that, I believe, no man who has in philosophic matters a competent faculty of thinking could ever fall into it." http://www.isaacnewton.ca/gen_scholium/
In other words, Newton recognized that his theory did not explain the cause of gravity. Einstein modified Newton's theory with his theory of general relativity, saying that gravity is an attribute of curved space instead of a force between bodies. But Einstein did not tell us what causes gravity.
In my humble opinion, my theory answers that question. Of course, I did not really come up with the answer. It is the product of discoveries by men like Friedman, Lemaitre, Hubble, Hoyle, Penzias, Wilson, Guth and Perlmutter, who contributed to the prevailing theory that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate.
But I do not know of anyone else who has proposed that the Big Bang is the effectual cause of gravity that we measure as weight. As I stated in my paper, the Big Bang made Newton's apple fall.
And even if nobody hears what I'm saying, the apples are still falling.
And so it is with my notion that gravity is the effect of the Big Bang moving matter throughout the universe. Even if nobody is listening, it is still happening. I am convinced of it.
I think Newton would agree. In Newton's 1713 General Scholium in the second edition of Principia, he said:
"I have not yet been able to discover the cause of these properties of gravity from phenomena and I feign no hypotheses... It is enough that gravity does really exist and acts according to the laws I have explained, and that it abundantly serves to account for all the motions of celestial bodies... That one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one another, is to me so great an absurdity that, I believe, no man who has in philosophic matters a competent faculty of thinking could ever fall into it." http://www.isaacnewton.ca/gen_scholium/
In other words, Newton recognized that his theory did not explain the cause of gravity. Einstein modified Newton's theory with his theory of general relativity, saying that gravity is an attribute of curved space instead of a force between bodies. But Einstein did not tell us what causes gravity.
In my humble opinion, my theory answers that question. Of course, I did not really come up with the answer. It is the product of discoveries by men like Friedman, Lemaitre, Hubble, Hoyle, Penzias, Wilson, Guth and Perlmutter, who contributed to the prevailing theory that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate.
But I do not know of anyone else who has proposed that the Big Bang is the effectual cause of gravity that we measure as weight. As I stated in my paper, the Big Bang made Newton's apple fall.
And even if nobody hears what I'm saying, the apples are still falling.
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