Does Gravity Really Exist?

INTRODUCTION

I can't believe that I'm the only one out there that has this question...and I am completely serious. Now I'm not saying there is some grand illusion going on, and that we are being deceived into believing what goes up must come down. What I am saying that what we believe to be gravity, is actually something else entirely. And that something else is magnetism - and what holds us to the earth is not this thing called gravity, but magnetism.

GRAVITY

Let us first think about what we know about gravity. we know it exists because of its effect on large objects in space, that attract each other. but any physicist will tell you that we don't know anything beyond that. In fact, this is the purpose of the Hadron super collider that has recently begun on and off operations. This multi-billion dollar facility was constructed with a central goal in mind - to find evidence of "the gravaton," which, according to string theory is a vibrating string. By smashing high energy protons, together and measuring the release of energy, they hope that they will find a loss of energy. this loss of energy they will say is proof that the gravaton existed, and that it is now in another dimension.

MAGNETISM

Most of what we understand about magnetism comes from the standard 2 dimensional diagram of North/South poles showing field lines. Many of us can also understand and visualize the doughnut shaped magnetic field of earth. as well and this makes sense.

But its what is really going on at the subatomic level that creates larger magnetic fields. In 1910 the Einstein-de Haas effect was the observation of a relationship between angular momentum and the spin of elementary particles.

The diagram of the magnet showing "+" and "-" on either ends is wrong. the electrons don't group up at one end at all. What is happening, is all the elementary particles are rotating - and they aren't just rotating like a compass in a 2-dimensional way - they are rotating as spheres around multiple axis. and its the alignment of the spins that creates polarization. Its not a grouping of these two things at either end, its the same material, all facing the same way.

In addition to angular movement, linear movement creates a magnetic field - here we call it an electromagnetic field. It is this movement that makes electric motors possible.

One explanation for the earths magnetic field is know as the dynamo theory. It describes the process of convection of our outer core as the process behind the field.

EINSTEINS THEORY.

Einstein believed that there was this one fabric called space time, which acts like an elastic 2-dimensional surface. We are all familiar with animation of earth sitting on a trampoline and the moon rolling around on that same surface. And we can even visualize this idea within the context of our solar system, and maybe even galaxy. But when I look at the famous images of our universe taken by hubble, we see all these galaxies resting on these surfaces that are turned which way and that, breaks down for me.

Is there one continuous surface that is crumbled into a 3 dimensional space? According to Einstein, it is the mass that creates the warping of this 2-dimensional plane. But what causes the orientation of the plane itself? what creates the axis of rotation for that center of gravity.

Could it be that what is warping the space IS the rotation that causes the magnetic field? Its seems a much simpler explanation than einstein.

2D vs 3D

One of the main sources of confusion I think has to do with our understanding rooted in 2 dimensional diagrams. For example, when we talk about light waves, and sound waves, with think of of them 2-dimensionally, looking at it from the side - an elevation, as it were. this wavelenght has an amplitude and frequency.

However, if you begin to think of this wavelenght existing in the 3-dimensional world, you will get something quite different. Imagine, taking that 2-dimensional piece of paper, rotate it 90 degrees and look straight AT the light wave. What do you think it will look like? will it stay in the 2 dimensional world, and appear as a line going up and down?

or perhaps you will begin to see a rotating coil with a radius and a rate of rotation in place of amplitude and frequency. A very simple real world way of visualizing this by holding a string at either end and twirling it in such a way that you get multiple "bulges". If you are able to look at this directly from the side, it will look like a 2-dimensional understanding of a wave.

Another example would be dropping a stone into still water. Its the assumption that the resultant waves rippling out are concentric circles. But could it be something different entirely? Could the ripples be a spiral rotating outwards?

Take our earths magnetic field. its based mostly on a 2-dimensional model of a magnet with lines of force. Essentially, this is what is known as a section. we have sliced the world in half along the axis. But what would happen if we were to slice along the hemisphere. might we find a single continuous surface, spiraling outward?

FRACTALS + FIBBONOCCI + SACRED GEOMETRY

There does seem to be this organization of the physical world that follows our understanding of these concepts. We keep looking for the mathematical explanation of the universe - a single unified theory. E = mc^2. But why is it so strange that we would use geometry to help explain those laws. It seems as though a language of geometry (something 3-dimensional itself) could provide a much better representation of the world around us.

Perhaps if we at least start here. If we examine how these ideas manifest themselves in the world around us, we can then extrapolate into the unknown.

HISTORY

this is something I want to understand better, both in the formation of our understanding of gravity, and magnetic theory.