Hi, my name is Richard and this is my first post here. I do not have any academic qualifications in science but I am bright and have ideas. I think mostly in terms of mathematics which of course goes hand in hand with physics. This morning I woke up like a bolt and started having these ideas about gravity. The thing that has always bothered me is that we describe graivty as being a mythical mysterious thing and in my mind I want it to be nothing but a simple physical process. It's described as a force of attraction like it has something to do with sex, perhaps because that's how we tick. I want to write this in a way that does not sound pseudo but it might come across that way because it's a new idea, to me at least anyhow. I apologise if I should have posted this in the pseudo board however as you will see, I am talking about very simple and basic physics which I cannot at the moment see an argument against.
We all know e=mc2 and this little formula has been stuck in my head for years. It describes energy, mass and light being closely related to one another. Energy relates to temperature, so therefore temperature relates to mass and light or the perception of it at least. Space is extremely cold and contains very little mass, or is it cold because it contains very little mass, does mass always retain some energy/temperature? What is the temperature at the core of an asteroid in deep space? Of course any slight radiation from a star would heat mass up considerably relative to the surrounding space.
This whole idea is based on mass always having a slightly higher temperature than the surrounding space, even if it's just a few kelvin. So then some simple physics, what happens when something very hot comes into contact with something very cold? There is an explosive type force right, thrust or replusion depending on your point of view? An example that comes to mind is under water lava flows, the lava appears to be contained and compressed through nothing other than a difference in temperature.
In space mass is surrounded by very low temperatures and if I assume that mass always retains more temperature than space, well then shouldn't we expect to see some containment and compression forces surrounding the entire mass? Einstein talked about he fabric of space time which relates to distance and light, but he could also have said the suspension of temperature/energy. Attraction between two objects occurs because as they near one another, they raise the temperature in the space between which reduces the containment/compression force created by space in that area while the force on the opposite sides remains unchanged, the end result is that the two object thrust together. Gravity makes it appear like objects are magically attracted to one another but that's surely because that's all we're forcused on and all we can see. Cold space exists also and it takes considerable energy for us to create extremely low temperatures on Earth, so we should surely consider the abundance of extremely low temperatures in space as an abundance of potentional energy?
Could it be that gravity is nothing more than thrust? Creating apparent anti gravity would seem simple then, create a hot ball, surround it with extremely low temperatures and it would appear that the object has very little mass because it would be creating thrust in all directions equally. It could weigh 100kg and a flick of finger could send to outer space if the thrust is high enough. It is said that the force of gravity is extremely weak, well this idea relates to that. Two asteroids might only create a force no greater than the push from one arm, but that might be enough to bring them closer and as they get closer the thrust will increase.
If any of this is true, well it throws open the whole debate on our perception of other observations. For example, light has some mass/energy/temperature which can also be contained by being surrounded by extremely low temperatures, therefore the further away from a star light gets, the slower it travels. The temperatures are lower so light particles are thrusted closer together more which reduces their energy and speed. So perhaps our perception of distance is not accurate until we account for the temperature in the space between objects. Why did einstein say the speed of light is a constant? We know that light cannot escape from a black hole, does that mean that light goes from our constant speed for light to zero in an instant, i.e. light cannot accelerate and deccelerate?