cmartin

I believe you are correct in saying that matter cannot exist without energy. However, most science of today assumes that at the end of the chain, there is a very small bit of inert matter without energy. There are theories that this is not so, and I cannot offer any help on that subject. On the subject of energy, I think it has always been assumed that there are 2 forms; repulsion, and attraction, or as we said down on the farm, pushing and pulling. I am suggesting thinking about the possibility of only one kind of energy; pushing. Before the characteristics of air were discovered, it was assumed that suction was an attractive force, perhaps this principle applies to all matter. Perhaps electron are prevented from moving away from the nucleus by something, the characteristics of which we have no knowledge. Could it be that an outer force prevents the earth from moving too far, or too close to the sun. At any rate, does anyone have an explanation for attraction as an energy form? cmartin

No one has been able to prove the existence of ether, and I certainly do not claim to be able to prove it. I guess to do experiments on it you would need to find a place where there wasn't any, if indeed there is some anywhere. This is an abstract idea intended only to get people to acknowledge that there is indeed evidence of the existence of things, and facts that no one understands. cmartin

What Causes Gravity Science is an incomplete art. The more we learn about the universe, the more evidence we get that there is more unknown, than known. We obviously lack the ability to understand completely why, and how the universe works, or comprehend its origin. Nevertheless, we have collected an astonishing amount of information which we accept as fact. New ideas arrive frequently, and we work hard to prove or disprove them, and every now and then a few of them are accepted as facts, but even those which are eventually proven false are stepping stones and building blocks in developing the knowledge of science, so the ideas I am presenting may be useful even if they are eventually proven false. In the late 1600’s, some scientists assumed that since light was a wave, it needed a medium to travel through, so they suggested the existence of a luminiforous ether which was different from other matter, in that it could not be seen, felt, or weighed. They believed that this ether was stationary, and that it filled all inner, and outer space, and that the earth, and other matter moved through it. All attempts to find evidence of ether failed, and new ways to explain how light could travel without a medium were discovered, so the ether theory was discarded. I think they were on to something. The earth is about 93 million miles from the sun, yet is affected by it in so many ways. How could the earth be affected by the sun in any way if there was nothing at all between them? Is seems as if this question has not been asked, since no theories exist to explain it. We understand that the earth is stabilized to a large degree by the sun’s gravity, but if no medium exists to connect them, what difference could the strength of the sun’s gravity make to the earth? Although the sun could perhaps repel something by throwing particles at it, it could never attract anything toward it, just as there could be no suction, without air pressure. Yet we can see evidence of the sun’s gravity reaching its invisible tentacles far beyond the earth. A much smaller example of this principle is the atom. If electrons are moving, they must at some point be moving away from the nucleus, or in a circle around it. In either case, if nothing was between them, inertia would drive them farther from the nucleus, and the atom would disintegrate. The fact that matter stays together proves the existence of ether, or some other kind of medium. If ether exists, gravity may be caused by the ability of matter to alter the pressure of it, and atomic particles could receive their characteristic qualities by their ability to react with this cosmic force. It will be extremely difficult to study the qualities of ether, since everything we observe would probably be affected equally, and we couldn’t create a place where it did not exist, but here are some questions to consider. 1. Is gravity infinite, or does it have an absolute like vacuum? 2. Can matter exist that contains no energy? 3. Does gravity affect the space around a body of matter, or only other matter? 4. Is there an absolute high temperature, as well as an absolute low? 5. Would a straight beam of light projected through space have any effect on the space next to it?