Yep it’s grand claim time. I have read a lot of pop science physics recently and the other day realised I was picturing 3D space in a particular way. Thinking about it more it seemed to explain how things are influence by gravity.
My explanation is below though it may contain errors, I have a picture in my head what I mean but explaining it is difficult. It’s not rigorous physics (obviously) merely a way of explaining behaviour, similar to thinking about rubber sheets and billiard balls.
So is this plausible? Does it make any sense? Have I read it (or similar) somewhere and forgotten doing so? What doesn’t it explain? I’d appreciate your comments.
The Gravity Field - here is how to think of ‘empty’ space:
Imagine a 3D Grid and at each line intersection consider a particle
Each particle repels the other equally - think of an imaginary spring between each adjacent particle which can contract and expand caused by the particles repelling each other.
Anything that has mass is too big to fit between the gaps (where the imaginary springs are) so has to push the particles out of the way. Anything small enough can move between the particles and hence has no mass.
The denser the particles the higher the gravitational force – it’s harder for the atoms, for example, to push past.
Massless Particles:
Photons, for example, travel around the gravity particles as they are small enough to do so hence no mass.
As the gravity particles get denser it makes travelling through them harder
If the particles get dense enough the photon has nowhere to go and gets ‘trapped’ – a black hole.
Scenarios/Descriptions of behaviour:
Add a mass – consider an iron sphere. The sphere influences the position of the particles or, more accurately, the atoms take up space causing the particles to shift. This creates gravity – the particles push against each other creating gravity by also pushing on the atoms.
Consider a photon getting close to the iron sphere – the denser particles are closer to the sphere (as the atoms in the sphere are taking up some space) this directs the photon towards the sphere ‘bending’ light.
Not only do atoms ‘push’ the particles but the particles also ‘push’ the atoms, this is what creates the attractive force. Consider two iron spheres near each other – there are fewer particles, and hence less force, in the area between the masses hence they get pushed together.
Consider a human jumping on Earth – as you go up you contract the particles above you but eventually you run out of energy and can’t push the particles anymore so they push\spring back and you travel back to earth.
Consider the two split experiment – a particle as it got close to the barrier would be moving towards denser particles (caused by the atoms of the barrier) increasing the potential movement off a straight line. The particle field isn’t uniform hence the particle’s position can’t be predicted as each photon could pick a different path through the particles. This explains the wave\particle duality of light, some photons, a small amount, don’t take the ‘straight’ line (for example in a 2D plane it could go over first particle, under next, over, under etc) but can get moved off it (go over first particle, over the next, over the next, under next etc).
Dark Matter is merely areas where the particles are denser than usual, they are not spread uniformly. No matter at all.
My explanation is below though it may contain errors, I have a picture in my head what I mean but explaining it is difficult. It’s not rigorous physics (obviously) merely a way of explaining behaviour, similar to thinking about rubber sheets and billiard balls.
So is this plausible? Does it make any sense? Have I read it (or similar) somewhere and forgotten doing so? What doesn’t it explain? I’d appreciate your comments.
The Gravity Field - here is how to think of ‘empty’ space:
Imagine a 3D Grid and at each line intersection consider a particle
Each particle repels the other equally - think of an imaginary spring between each adjacent particle which can contract and expand caused by the particles repelling each other.
Anything that has mass is too big to fit between the gaps (where the imaginary springs are) so has to push the particles out of the way. Anything small enough can move between the particles and hence has no mass.
The denser the particles the higher the gravitational force – it’s harder for the atoms, for example, to push past.
Massless Particles:
Photons, for example, travel around the gravity particles as they are small enough to do so hence no mass.
As the gravity particles get denser it makes travelling through them harder
If the particles get dense enough the photon has nowhere to go and gets ‘trapped’ – a black hole.
Scenarios/Descriptions of behaviour:
Add a mass – consider an iron sphere. The sphere influences the position of the particles or, more accurately, the atoms take up space causing the particles to shift. This creates gravity – the particles push against each other creating gravity by also pushing on the atoms.
Consider a photon getting close to the iron sphere – the denser particles are closer to the sphere (as the atoms in the sphere are taking up some space) this directs the photon towards the sphere ‘bending’ light.
Not only do atoms ‘push’ the particles but the particles also ‘push’ the atoms, this is what creates the attractive force. Consider two iron spheres near each other – there are fewer particles, and hence less force, in the area between the masses hence they get pushed together.
Consider a human jumping on Earth – as you go up you contract the particles above you but eventually you run out of energy and can’t push the particles anymore so they push\spring back and you travel back to earth.
Consider the two split experiment – a particle as it got close to the barrier would be moving towards denser particles (caused by the atoms of the barrier) increasing the potential movement off a straight line. The particle field isn’t uniform hence the particle’s position can’t be predicted as each photon could pick a different path through the particles. This explains the wave\particle duality of light, some photons, a small amount, don’t take the ‘straight’ line (for example in a 2D plane it could go over first particle, under next, over, under etc) but can get moved off it (go over first particle, over the next, over the next, under next etc).
Dark Matter is merely areas where the particles are denser than usual, they are not spread uniformly. No matter at all.
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I feared this, I haven't explained it well enough, if only I could download the pictures in my head!
