Hi there,
I’m Adam, I’m reaching out to this community in hopes that someone out there will be able to help me out. My Grandfather who grew up during the Great Depression and served in the Navy during the Korean War has spent his life as an engineer and as an owner of his own construction company providing for his family.
In retirement he turned his attention to his lost love of physics and mathematics. I am not savvy in any of these areas whatsoever, but in a no nonsense coherent way has explained to me the theory of Gravity that he has developed over the last several years. My understanding is that it supposed to link together all the physical aspects of the universe and explain how we have everything from nothing.
I have no idea if he is totally off base or on to something, he lives in a retirement community with my grandmother, my family doesn’t know anyone who could really understand his theory at a high level. I just want his theory to get in front of someone who can give it a fair analysis and tell me if its flawed, or makes some sense.
Here is an excerpt of his writting:
“The phenomenon of gravity and mass has intrigued and mystified me for as long as I can remember. As in Newton’s formula, why does the force of gravity relate to the mass of the body? Why is Gravity a universal force that spreads its influence to the far reaches of the universe? It shows up wherever we find mass. There is a mutual attraction of masses regardless of the separation between them. Each mass regardless of its size or chemical makeup attracts every other mass. Gravity affects the smallest mass to the largest, a single electron or atom to planets, stars and black holes. It is easy to see gravity at work on a planet like the earth, but not as easy when we look at a grain of sand. How does this mutual attraction take place and what mechanism exists that produces this phenomenon? There must be a simple connection between mass and gravity that is hidden from our view. Gravity and mass must be parts of a single entity, we simply never find one without the other.”
This is a website link that has part of the theory http://mytheoryofgravity.blogspot.com/
Any ways that anyone can maybe help me out with this would mean so much!
From the blog:
- "Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity is primarily a theory of gravity. It is based on the assumption that gravity propagates through space as a wave."
I'm afraid that is complete rubbish. If he is going to comment on GR, he should at least find out what it is. If he doesn't know anything about it, he would be better advised to leave out commenting on it.
- "The theory proposed above that gravity results from the flow of space to a point contradicts Einstein’s theory.
Space flowing results in a vector solution which cannot explain some observations. He seems to be basing his ideas on a mechanism to explain Newtonian gravity which is known to be wrong. The simplest check he could do would be the gravitational bending of light. He will get half the observed value if he bases his approach on Newton's law of gravity.
Anyway, the above is only commenting on the text which is fairly unimportant. If you want anyone to comment on his theory, you have to post his maths. Text sometimes helps to understand what the equations are saying but unless you publish his equations, nobody can review them.
