There has been a growing sense upon myself to realize that there is going to be a major shift in the understanding of gravity and the gravitation force. Something that is going to fundamentally change the way that we look at and understand how gravity works. This comes about from the manifestation of the coalescing of two senses; one being the intuitional sense that this understanding is immanent; two, from reading various articles from diverse people, scientist and non-scientist. I would be most compelled to label this a forecast more that anything else. A forecast that will most likely manifest itself in the next couple of years.
Newton was paramount in fundamentally changing the way we look at our world. He was the governing force to bring us, the populous in general, out of the superstitious age into the realm of the scientific understanding. Through his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica , published in 1687, works produced the universal law of gravitation and the three laws of motion. This fundamentally brought understanding to why do we stay firmly planted on the Earth. As well as, explaining why the planets form the solar system that we bare witness to. This was a fundamental understanding of that objects of mass attracts other objects of mass. Therefore, single handily precipitating us from the realm of the ethereal to the realm of the reality of this world. He brought about the fundamental understanding of that there is a force that holds us and the other objects to this earth, and, of course, not to mention the planets around the sun, as well as, the galaxy, and certainly not least of which the universe. Although, his work laid the foundation of classical mechanics and what is known as classical physics it is still not enough. It still doesn’t explain everything that we bare witness to from all aspects of human experience. I recognize that there is a very important larger picture of understanding that extends beyond what Newton just provided in his works. There is the evolution of our understanding of our world that is most important. This is the evolution of the understanding of our world from the nothing that existed before of the understanding of gravity. In other words this is a critical first step along the way to truly understanding what gravity is and as well as understanding what our world is. Einstein was to take us to the next step.
Einstein, in 1915, lectured on his work of general relativity pertaining to his musings on gravity itself. His point of view was that gravity is not a force as claimed by Newton but a consequence of the warping of space-time. Much like a bowling ball warps a trampoline into a bowl shape so does matter warp space-time. He brought about the understanding that space and time are fundamentally linked. One can not exist without the other. Once again, our understanding of gravity is fundamentally shifted. Here is another evolutionary step in the understanding of gravity.
But, still we do not fully understand how and why gravity works. It makes sense to me that gravity warps space and time. If I think about it gravity seems to violate the law of conservation of energy. Where does all that energy come from that causes masses to attract each other. It is always working. It takes energy to move mass period. Where is that energy coming from? We can do work against gravity but that is merely producing potential energy that can be converted later to kinetic energy. Einstein did theorize that there was a field strength or energy density that was high for subatomic particles embedded in this unified field theory.
My musings on gravity:
Lets go back to basics on what we already understand on gravity at this point. We understand that bodies of mass attract each other. Why is that? Now, let’s take this a step further, let’s not look at it from a perspective of mass but a perspective of energy. Instead of bodies of mass attracting each other it is now bodies of concentrated energy that attracts other manifestations of energy. In the respect of what Einstein also provided us with the famous equation E=mc^2, mass is an abundant amount of energy. Or look at it from another perspective that matter is just a property of energy. A locking, if you will, of energy in a particular state that exhibits matter and the properties that matter portrays. These properties of matter are eloquently stated in Newton’s three laws of motion.
First law of motion: a body at rest or at constant motion will stay at rest or in motion unless acted upon by a force.
Second law of motion: A force is the manifestation of an acceleration of mass through space. A change in momentum is equal to the result of a force acting on a body of mass in the same direction as the momentum change.
Third law of motion: When a force acts on a body there is an equal and opposite force to counter. This follows the conservation of momentum.
Why is it that the strength of gravity is so feeble compared the other fundamental forces of nature such as electromagnetic force, the strong and weak force, and even the electroweak force? Is it because gravity performs multiple duty by oscillating between the parallel universes that exists in our midst? Is our true understanding of gravity going to be strongly linked to really understanding what our reality of this world is? That is, is the understanding of the multiple parallel universes going to be strongly linked to the fundamental true understanding of gravity? Not as well know it today but what we will become or evolve to understand. If the graviton really does exist is it providing double duty in phase shifting between the different parallel universes? Is this why it is so feeble compared to the other basic forces of nature? Maybe the strength of gravity is just as strong as the other forces we just don’t bare witness to it because it is shared among the parallel universes? It is important to realize that we are understanding gravity at this point because we are highly biased on what we are experiencing on this planet. Of course, astronomers are witnessing a pulling force so great that it can not, alone, explain why we are witnessing the acceleration of the expansion of the universe. We attribute that to dark matter at this point. We simply call it dark matter because we don’t fully understand it. Is that a new form of gravity? It would be logical to think that gravity has drastically different properties in a realm where the density of matter is much greater than what it is now. In looking at neutrino stars and black holes there is strong persuasion that high density matter has a strong influence on space and time. Even to the point that at the black hole it seems to stop time. By no means can we state that time is an immutable dimension. In my humble opinion that would be pure arrogance to make that claim. I definitely recognize that we witness time at a certain rate because we are so heavily influenced by the warping of space-time from the Earth and the other planets and sun’s influence as well.
Is it possible that we can create a device to will produce an anti-gravity field, a device that can counter the effects of gravity. If so then that begs the question what is gravity? Really?
I see that there is going to be a fundamental shift in our understanding of what gravity is and along with that a fundamental shift in our understanding of what this world really is. This is the likening of the shift in understanding that the earth was not the center of the universe. That the earth was just another planet among billions of other planets. Like that that we can not see because we simply do not understand suddenly becomes luminous and clear because we have evolved to understand, because we have been shown the way to understand what it is. Like that of which when we understood that bacteria and virus’ cause sickness and death. Not that some strange force or event caused sickness or death unknown to us.
We will evolve forward in our understanding of what there is to understand. As well as it is important to understand the responsibility and authority that the new understanding brings with it.
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