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Section 4
Gravity at Work |
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Space
enters |
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1) We keep in mind these two pertinent
physical properties of space:
(1) Space is continuous.
(2) Space "owns" the magnetic field.
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We will illustrate our version of "how gravity works" by asking two simple
questions: (1) What holds us to the ground? (2) What keeps the Moon in orbit around the Earth? |
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As mentioned in Section 3, any meaningful definition
of gravity involves two (or more) objects--or material bodies. In this example, the two objects are you and the ground. ("The ground", of course, means the surface of the Earth.) So we could say: the Earth is one body (or object) and you are the other. |
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Another way to say
this is "space inside the boundry of an object has a stronger tendency to be conntinous with itself than space outside of the boundry." |
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3) Space does not discriminate
between the sub-atomic particles of your body and those of the earth. The effect is that the earth's body and your body constitute one, single, continuous field of MAS. (Again, represented by the red grid.) |
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Likewise is so for the Earth-moon system and the sun. Also for the sun
and all the planets in the solar system. Even, as we look around at the rest of the cosmos, we see that a virtual continuum between fields of Material Altered Space is not such a bad description of the way things actually are. |
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The MAS of Earth and the MAS of the moon
are virtually continuous via the continuous magnetic field property of space. |
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What holds the moon in orbit
around the Earth? |
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What holds us to the ground?
(Using you for an example.) |
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Note: It is helpful to be familiar with the ideas in Section 3
before approaching this section. |
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2) Continuous Space, carrying with it
its magnetic field property, permeates the boundaries of both your body and the Earth's body--from the outside, through the boundary, to the inside of each body. (Denoted by blue arrow.) Its magnetic field property interacts with the ongoing electric and magnetic fields of moving sub-atomic particles occurring in both bodies, establishing a field of MAS [Material Altered Space] inside the boundary of each body. (Represented by the red grid.) |
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4) Since the magnetic property of
space is relatively condensed in MAS, so too is the property of continuousness proportionately increased (or intensified). |
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<<This image shows the magnetic lines of force
around an ordinary bar magnet. The lines show that the magnetic field is denser at the poles of the magnet than in the regions further away from the poles.
Similarly, we can expect the magnetic field of
space to be somewhat more condensed inside the boundary of an object than outside the boundary. This, of course, is due to the magnetic fields' encounters with moving charges inside the boundary...all according to Maxwell. |
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Gravity at Work:
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In other words, Material Altered Space (MAS)
has a relativly condensed magnetic field. |
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What holds us to the ground?:
Space permeates the surface (or field boundary) of each body--you and the earth. The
magnetic-field property of space interacts with the sub-atomic particles in each body, establishing a field that we are calling MAS (Material Altered Space) in both bodies. Space does not distinguish between the sub-atomic particles of your body and those of the Earth (since all like sub-atomic particles are virtually identical.) The effect is that the Earth's body and your body constitute one, single, continuous field of MAS.
Just as space outside the boundary of MAS is continuous, so is this property retained
within the MAS--only its physical effect is increased (due to its association with a relatively condensed magnetic field of MAS). It is this increased tendency of MAS in your body to be continuous with the MAS of the Earth that holds you to the ground. |
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(Click this image to see other
characteristics of magnetic fields.) |
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5) It is this intensified
property of continuisness in the 'You/Earth MAS field' that keeps you from drifting away from the surface of the earth. |
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Within the framework of the ideas so far
expressed, the answer to this question might be nearly self evident. To be sure, it is brief. |
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Each, the body of the Earth and the body of the moon contain a MAS field
within its field boundary (or surface.) Since the continuous magnetic-field property of space not only permeates each body (moon and Earth), but occupies the spaces between those bodies, the MAS of Earth and MAS of the moon are virtually continuous. Hence, the Earth and its moon are physically attached to each other; as if they were one, continuous field entity. |
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Where a magnetic field is relatively condensed,
the effect of its physical properties are proportionately increased (or intensified). By association, we might suppose that the effect of the physical property of continuousness (of space) is also intensified.
(Granted, this seems a nebulous concept...but
we keep in mind that continuousness is a real physical property (of space); just as a real physical property of matter is that it is discontinuous.) |
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Earth's
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2a) Here the nucleus and
even the nucleons, themselves, are considered as highly condensed electromagnetic fields or interactions. |
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A note on the nucleus: We have reason to view each nucleon as, basically, a highly condensed
electromagnetic field; and, also, the powerful interaction between nucleons as electromagnetic in nature. Subsequently, the nucleus, itself, is translucent to the magnetic field property of space; is endowed with the property of mass; and is subject to gravitation. Please see this website's Matter section, where we explore this topic further; with a concept of "soft matter". |
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