Now leaving the blogosphere

I am going to take a vacation from blogworld for a while.

I've been wrestling with a gravity theory for the past few months, and I feel like I need to get back to the regular busines of my life. If you are interested in my meanderings, you should read the theory in the succession of articles below:

1. The Big Bang Made the Apple Fall
The Big Bang set all matter in motion --- including Newton's apple. Everything is in motion, and the force we feel as gravity is simply the manifestation of matter slowing down due to resistance in space. 

http://academia.wikia.com/wiki/The_Big_Bang,_the_Fabric_of_Space_and_the_Apple

2. The Apple Stopped Here
Newton's apple crashed into the Earth on its path through space. This same dynamic is apparent in the cosmos as galaxies, stars and planets strain against the fabric of space, as well as the molecular level where atoms move through space with different apparent weights. http://academia.wikia.com/wiki/The_Apple_Stopped_Here

3. The Core of the Apple
Apples, like all Earth-bound objects, do not have gravity. Instead, objects on planets are caught in the gravitational turbulence caused by the planets moving through spacetime. http://academia.wikia.com/wiki/The_Core_of_the_Apple.

Astronomy Day

I presented my ideas on gravity at a conference hosted by Astronomers Without Borders for Astronomy Day, April 21, 2007. http://www.meade4m.com/astronomy_day/meade.html

There were about 35 people attending my presentation, which was an overview of the history of astronomy and a summary of my theory. A few people complimented me for my talk afterwards, but no one gave me a substantive response --- I think they were just being polite.

However, I felt encouraged that I found an audience. One man, an electrical engineer, said I had given him a new perspective.

I asked Tim Thompson, a co-presenter at the conference, what he thought about my ideas. I was especially interested in his opinion because he is an astrophysicist from Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

"What did you think about my hooey?" I asked, knowing that my idea about gravity was novel.

"I've heard a lot more hooey than that," he said. "It was good."

Another wrinkle in spacetime

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.

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.

Hey, there is intelligent life out there

I received some feedback on my article, which theorizes that the Big Bang is the force behind gravity throughout the universe. In other words, the Big Bang made Newton's apple fall.

Anyway, I sent the article to members of the Orange County Astronomy Club, Amateur Astronomer Magazine online and to other sites in the Wikipedia community. I have a lot to learn, but a few people have offered encouraging words about my world view.

If anybody else is listening, please let me know what you think.

Welcome to my world

Hello.

I am entering the blogosphere because I am having trouble finding a home in the world. I'm speaking figuratively.

Actually, I have a home and family and much more to be grateful for in this world. But I have had a hard time finding a place to share some ideas lately, so I thought I would find out if anybody is interested in what I have to say here in the blogosphere.

Today, I am trying to get some substantive response to an idea I have about the universe. I wrote an article, and posted it at http://academia.wikia.com/wiki/The_Big_Bang,_the_Fabric_of_Space_and_the_Apple
It's a Wikipedia website for original ideas, but nobody has commented on it.

I sent a copy of the article to a science reporter and emailed a physics professor about it, but I have received no response.

Is anybody listening?