Like looking in a mirror

When we see the distant universe accelerating away, it is like looking in a mirror. What we see there is also happening here.

But this distant image is so foreign to us we don't recognize it. So to make sense of it, we have constructed a theoretical world that doesn't exist. We say that dark matter, which we cannot see, must be causing this acceleration through some dark energy, which we cannot measure.

As I have chronicled in this blog, I think I have another explanation for the accelerating expansion of space. Applying my theory, it became more clear to me today how this phenomenon is manifest in our world.

Based on the results of my experiment this month, it is appears that gravity on Earth diminishes from day to night. It dawned on me this morning that by a similar experiment, it should become apparent that the Earth is losing its gravity. And if my theory is correct, all the planets, moons, asteroids and other stable masses in our solar system are losing their gravity.

This is due to the accelerating expansion of space. As I proposed in my first articles on this subject, the Big Bang is pushing matter such as planets, stars and galaxies against the fabric of space. This matter is stretching space so thin that the matter meets less resistance and therefore accelerates.

That resistance is manifest in weight. The less resistance, the less weight or gravity.

If that is true in the distant universe, then it should be true in the local universe. In other words, space is stretching such that gravity is diminishing everywhere.

Five-sixth's of the way there

My gravity experiment was a success.

According to gravimetric readings I requested from the University of Montana, gravity increased during the day and decreased each night on January 3, 4 and 5, 2009. This is precisely what I predicted by applying my gravity theory. See my blog dated Nov. 26, 2007.

One of the six readings, however, showed an opposite result. I do not have an explanation for the difference yet, but I am awaiting further information from the university. So I am 5/6's excited about the prospects for my theory.

Despite this encouraging development, I am still guarded about sharing my theory with a broader scientific audience. I suspect there will be other explanations for the results and certainly criticisms for my theory.

But I feel more confident that I have not been on a fool's errand. I think I am on the road to understanding.

Waiting for the bottom to drop out

As I have waited for the results of my gravity experiment, I have tried not to think about my theory because I do not want to preoccupy myself with it until I have some confirmation about its viability. 

I guess I have been bracing for the possibility that the bottom will drop out. I don't want to invest more of my mental energy if it is a flawed idea. But I couldn't help myself as I mused about another application of my theory this week.

I was thinking about the phenomenon of weightlessness that passengers experience as they descend in airplanes faster than gravity pulls them down. Astronauts train in this zero-gravity environment, and even tourists can pay to have the experience.

In my musing, it occurred to me that objects on Earth should also experience weightlessness if the planet suddenly accelerates around the Sun faster than gravity is pulling it through space. If so, then this phenomenon further illustrates my gravity theory.

According to my theory, gravity is an effect of matter moving through space.  Everything is moving with the inertia of the Big Bang but things slow down as they meet resistance. And that resistance is manifest in weight.

If my theory applies, the zero-gravity phenomenon shows that matter does not have an inherent attractive force but is an effect of matter moving through space. As extrapolated from the experience of passengers on a speedily descending plane, the accelerating planet will leave its inhabitants floating in space once the bottom drops out, so to speak. 

In other words, everything --- planets, planes and people --- are moving through space. The Big Bang is propelling us all, and we sense resistance to that motion as weight.

Until the results of my gravity experiment, however, I guess I'll just float around in my own world.