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[Eprom]

I agree with the consideration that deflection would occur on both particles to the same extent on the proviso that the particles create the gravitational field.

Consider this hypothetical model:

Space is the hardest substance known. Although we can push things through it easily, the hardness comes from it's reluctance to allow space-time curvature. A better statement would be that space is rigid. Space-time curvature is abnormal and, according to space's simple operating principle, so is anything that causes this to occur. The most natural and comfortable state for space is total emptiness. This is in accordance with entropy. Now, if space-time is a displacement it is locally large in the presence of mass, proportional to the mass and reduces by the square of the distance from the mass - gravity. Nothing new here yet, until you attribute the effect to space itself rather than the mass. In other words to displace space requires energy - the creation of mass itself being the source. The displacement is time dependent and the rate at which displacement can occur is limited by the speed of light or perhaps more controversially, the speed of light is limited by the rate at which space can be displaced. Either way, to displace anything at all in this way implies that space can have potential energy and if it can oscillate or move, kinetic energy. If the mass could instantaneouly disappear, it would be similar to chopping the legs of a table - the table would fall. This is not so different from a collapsing eletromagentic field. In effect, shock waves would be produced, theoretically travelling either at the speed of light or the speed of gravity, the latter to include the revelation whilst writing this that they may be different aspects of same phenomena. In this way you have two distinct aspects of gravity. The potential energy in the precence of mass and the kinetic energy caused by change of mass or change of gravitional field.

The interesting part of this model is that it relates absolute space to local space-time. The speed of 'energy' through absolute space is constant and due to the effect of local space-time cannot be measured as different in any direction or at any velocity. The constant 'c' is determined by the rate at which absolute space can be deformed rather than determing this factor. Even if absolute space is expanding and 'c' were to change accordingly, it would still be measurable as the same constant value. Possibly this is related to the total mass-space-density.

In essence, this model suggests that 'space' is active, it squeezes back on mass. The model does not dissallow entropy or suggest it would squeeze all mass into the same point. It suggest to me that the properties of space are determined by the total mass distributed throughout space and the mass density in local space. Specifically, the total mass determines the total 'strain' of space and local mass density determines the 'local strain'. Gravity is endowed on space by mass and space then transfers it as 'space strain' to other masses at a constant rate.

Acceleration due to gravity is then an aspect of 3 dimensional strain. Transfer of energy through space could then be no more than a complex oscillating strain of various frequencies and planes of oscillation on top of a relatively static gravity strain.




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I.S.