While the common assumption in relativity is that matter curves space-time towards it, it's more likely that most attraction can be better explained as a mutual repulsion of the intervening space-time.
An analogous effect can easily be demonstrated where two floating objects with hydrophobic coatings would move towards each other, if they were placed close enough to each other where the areas of the hydrophobic effect would be overlapping.
This distance would be infinite under ideal conditions, but would need to be close enough in the experiment for practical observation.
This would also explain how gravity and magnetism work even though action at a distance is impossible, because the attraction of two objects to each other is effectively no different from their mutual repulsion of the intervening medium.
By inference, this also means that objects that attract the medium would actually move away from each other.
The mathematics of the phenomenon is that the horizontal reactive forces of the medium on the objects would be lower in the intervening space, and higher on the periphery; effectively pushing the objects together in the former case, and pulling them away in the latter.
But the effect would be a lot easier to demonstrate practically with the hydrophobic experiment.
While the common assumption in relativity is that matter curves space-time towards it, it's more likely that most attraction can be better explained as a mutual repulsion of the intervening space-time.
ReplyDeleteAn analogous effect can easily be demonstrated where two floating objects with hydrophobic coatings would move towards each other, if they were placed close enough to each other where the areas of the hydrophobic effect would be overlapping.
This distance would be infinite under ideal conditions, but would need to be close enough in the experiment for practical observation.
This would also explain how gravity and magnetism work even though action at a distance is impossible, because the attraction of two objects to each other is effectively no different from their mutual repulsion of the intervening medium.
By inference, this also means that objects that attract the medium would actually move away from each other.
The mathematics of the phenomenon is that the horizontal reactive forces of the medium on the objects would be lower in the intervening space, and higher on the periphery; effectively pushing the objects together in the former case, and pulling them away in the latter.
But the effect would be a lot easier to demonstrate practically with the hydrophobic experiment.