Disclaimer: I am not a physicist, I merely had my curiosity peaked regarding Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, and one thing lead to another, until I came up with this. Please feel free to brainstorm alongside myself for other ideas, things I may not have considered, or anything else you want to add.
Theory of mass-space relationship, gravity, and space distortion.
Vulcan was a planet hypothesized in order to explain Mercury's unusual orbit around the sun. However, when Einstein came up with the theory of relativity, and how mass warps space-time, it explained Mercury's orbit, and thus Vulcan no longer was believed in.
If, indeed, mass does warp space-time, and that somehow influences gravity, and how objects affect each other, in what way does it warp space-time?
Leaving out the time component for the time being, how would mass affect space? If apparently more mass means more attraction towards the mass, does that mean there is more space at M1 (for simplicity's sake, this is what I'll be calling this mass) or that there is less space? I have seen graphic representations of how mass supposedly warps space-time, and all of them depict "space" stretching and thinning at the mass. I beg to differ in that particular regard. For us to have an idea of how mass affects space, we would need to first theorize what they are to each other. My interpretation is that space is like a container, a coordinate, a data slot of sorts, that may or may not be host to "matter" or "mass" at a point in time. If we suppose for simplicity that space is like a tissue or fabric capable of moving in relation to an orthonorm, orthogonal coordinate system S1, and that it is faster in its movement than mass, we could put together the following theory:
Space is the carrier of mass, and more mass requires more space to hold. Let's use our imagination to simulate this experiment:
In the coordinate system S1, there exists space evenly spread out, and without any mass. We then summon a mass M1 in a certain point. That causes space to rush and fill up the "void" at the mass M1 in order to accommodate it, just as higher pressured air rushes to fill the "void" in lesser pressured air. The mass does not have the opportunity to rush and fill up the space instead, because it is of lesser speed. Now there exists a distortion around the mass, where space is concentrated at the mass, and diluted around it. Let us now summon another mass M2 significantly smaller than M1, and set it in motion towards the latter. Once it reaches orbit point, it notices the significant lack of space, and since space is held up by a much larger mass, it cannot rush to accommodate M2, so M2 rushes to fill it up instead. I do not have a way to explain why space's dilution decreases the farther from the mass, I only theorize it does so logarithmic-ally. That means that the dilution is exponentially stronger the closer to the mass, until it reaches a summit - or rather, the pit's bottom - at the mass's edge, then stabilizes at the mass.
Theory by Y. "Keller" B.
Moroccan High School graduate. Baccalaureate in Mathematical Sciences - A.