What is the Source of Gravity?

If anything is ubiquitous it certainly is gravity. It exists in every corner of the universe and affects all sizes of bodies, from atoms to humans to galaxies. Everything is attracted to everything else with no apparent connections, no strings attached. Earth holds onto its rocks, animals and whatnot, our sun holds its planets in their orbits, our Milky Way galaxy guides the path of the sun on its celestial journey. How does all this happen? What property of the universe is responsible? Can we figure it out?

Yes we can, and the figuring-it-out business began with Galileo discovering how things fall, Kepler working out the laws of planetary motion, and Newton deriving the first theory of gravity. All this and gravity was still a mystery. Scientists used descriptive terms like “field theory” and worked out useful mechanisms but increased little our understanding of gravity. Around 1915 Einstein developed his General Theory of Relativity and reasoned that the geometry of space itself is curved by matter, causing bodies to appear to be moving in curved paths. And there, dear reader, the theories came to a screeching halt. How does matter curve space? And what does “curved space” mean? For that matter, what is matter? For the past 40 years scientists have wrestled with esoteric things such as String Theory and Quantum Gravity trying to understand the gravity force. The results have been rather dismal. Where do we go from here?

It’s easy; we change Einstein’s viewpoint a bit and realize that:

1. Space has the property of energy. There is a real energy of space. Call it Space-Energy. Einstein’s curved space becomes curved space-energy. How is space-energy curved?

2. Particles including neutrons, protons and electrons, the basic stuff of matter are concentrations of space-energy.

3.Each of these particles by virtue of this concentration of space-energy left a dent, or curvature in the energy of space.

4. This curvature is the force we call gravity.  That’s it, we’re done.

This theory enables us to develop a mathematical expression of gravity because we know the energies involved, and can calculate the curvature of the space-energy.  We can actually figure out what our Universe is doing. What fun this is!

Gravity is everywhere

 giving the universe

 its structure and beauty

Explore these topics to learn more about the history and new theories of gravity.

• Discoveries -- The history of finding gravity.

• Space-Energy – A new theory. Gravity is non-symmetry of the space-energy curvature of any collection of bodies of matter.

• Cosmology – Newton’s gravity constant, G, gives us space tension and tells us how gravity changes, and what that change is doing to the universe as it expands.

• Antigravity ­-- Can the space-energy asymmetry be restructured to produce zero gravity or maybe even repulsion?

These ideas are discussed at some depth in my little book,

Gravity Decoded, Exploring the Structure of Space-Energy,  by Sebastian Borrello,

available at Amazon.com and through other booksellers  (ISBN 0-595-20969-6.)