Author: David E. Matzke

Publisher: Trafford

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 9781412066730

While the space/time warpage of Einstein's General Relativity remains the favore d'explanation for gravity, a steadfast, perhaps growing, school of thought adheres to the so-called 'pushing gravity' concept set forth long ago by lesage. The appeal of this concept lies in the ease with which it's operation can be physically visualized; a universally applied gravity-producing radiation perpetually bombards all masses and is partially abosrbed by them; thus two masses in the same neighborhood mutually shield each other from the radiatoin coming from the direction of the other; hence the two masses are 'pushed' together by the difference in impact forces acting along their line of centers. In contrast to the mass-active rationales of both Newtonian gravity and General Relativity, which in the former case require a mass to actively attract or 'pull' another mass toward it, and in the latter, to actively warp space/time, the pushing gravity concept is mass-passive; the active forces are due to the gravity-producing radiation. Beyond Lesage, it was Quineros Majorana who set forth the idea of the exponential attenuation of the radiation as it passes through mass, and this idea is developed and applied in this book. While some of the developments are quite tedious, two sections present a lighter side. The first featurs a simple derivation of the time-rate equation of the simplest black hole, serving as the basis for describing four of its fantasies. Remarkably, a twin solution, having no such singularities, is also produced. A second attempt is a short story written in the form of a dialogue (not reminiscent of Galileo's'Dialogue') between a mother and a son who, while concocting a kettle of 'stone soup,' blithely contrive a version of astronomy based on the pushing gravity concept and the presumed expansion of the Earth.