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Mechanism for gravity Gravity and chiral objects

Chirality is when an object

Has a left-handed form

That is spatially different to its right-handed form, such as our left and right hands


We shake hands with our right hands

image of a handshake with right hands


Although the handshake would work just as well if we were to use our left hands, for these two handshakes are equivalent to each other

image of a handshake with left hands


However, a handshake where one person uses their left hand and the other uses their right hand, is a different handshake, and it is not equivalent to the other two handshakes

image of a handshake with a right hand and a left hand


If the mechanism of electric charge were to be chiral in nature

Then the above suggests that the electric charge attractive force

Might not equal the electric charge repulsive force


A group of chiral electrical particles that are overall electrically neutral

Might have an overall attraction towards each other

Or might have an overall repulsion away from each other


Another example of chirality is the helix shape

image of two left handed helixes, two right handed helixes, and one left handed and one right handed helix


A left-handed helix

Is spatially different

To a right-handed helix

The following animation shows how left-handed and right-handed helix structures, have a slightly better contact, than the contact of left-handed and left-handed helix structures, and the contact of right-handed and right-handed helix structures, the  Tighten  button shows the small difference between the interactions, when the helix structures are tightly wound, the  Run  button start / stops the animation (any of the buttons can be used in pause mode)

Gravity

The Simple Universe model

Describes all the subatomic particles

As particles that have an underlying helix structure

The following animation shows the shapes and structures of the model's subatomic particles, the  Particles  button steps through the particles, the  Run  button start / stops the animation (any of the buttons can be used in pause mode)

The Subatomic Particles

In the Simple Universe model

The left and right forms of the torus shaped particles of matter

Gives the particles of matter the quality of positive and negative electric charge


The behaviour of attraction and repulsion

Comes from the left and right forms of the torus shaped particles of matter

Interacting with the left and right forms of the model's helix shaped electric field particles


In the Simple Universe model

A positive electric field particle interacts with a negative particle of matter a little bit stronger

Than when the positive electric field particle interacts with a positive particle of matter


And

A negative electric field particle interacts with a positive particle of matter a little bit stronger

Than when the negative electric field particle interacts with a negative particle of matter


With the 'neutral' particle

Its outer torus is slightly larger than its inner torus

Giving the 'neutral' particle a small interaction with electric field particles, in the same manner as above


In the model

There is a small attractive force between atoms

That is similar to gravity

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Gravity and the electric force Gravity and chiral objects

In the Simple Universe model

The proton contains one left 'neutral' particle and one right 'neutral' particle

In addition to the proton's internally enclosed positron


This gives the proton

More mass than the electron, but without giving the proton extra naked electric charge

Causing the model's gravity and electric force to appear to be different forces, even though gravity in the model is a consequence of the electric force

The following animation shows how the electron, positron, 'neutral' particle, neutrino and particle of light, interact with the short and long electric field particles in the model, the  Interaction  button steps through the interactions, the   01   input box lists the interactions for direct selection, the  Run  button start / stops the animation (any of the buttons can be used in pause mode)

Electric Fields

Electric fields appear to be different from a gravitational field

In that it is possible to shield from an electric field

But it is not possible to shield from a gravitational field


An example of an electric field shield

Is the Faraday cage

Although perhaps, the description of the cage as a shield is misleading, for electric fields are not absent from inside the cage, but rather the positive and negative fields inside the cage are equal to each other


That is similar to how

The attractive and repulsive electric interactions between all the individual subatomic particles that make up the earth

Cancel each other out


Except that in the model

The attraction and repulsion interactions don't quite cancel each other out

The slightly stronger electric field attraction leads to the small overall attraction that is gravity

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Gravity and matter Gravity and chiral objects

In the Simple Universe model

Gravity is a consequence of the difference in strengths

Between the attractive and repulsive interactions of the electric force


In the model

Gravity is a small force

Because the difference in strengths between the attractive and repulsive interactions of the electric force, is small


Explaining gravity in this way

Means that there is no antigravity in the model

Nor is there any difference between the behaviour of antiparticle and ordinary particle in a gravitational field


In the model

Gravity affects all the particles of matter in the same way

That is, gravity pulls together the particles that have mass - i.e. the torus shaped particles that are the electron, positron, left-handed 'neutral' particle, right-handed 'neutral' particle


Large dense objects can perhaps exist in the model

Such as a neutron star, or a quaser (quasers perhaps emitting light, as a suggestion, by crushing matter at their cores into light)

But in the model, matter cannot form an object such as a black hole, where by definition, light does not escape


In the Simple Universe model

Light is directed around objects that have mass

Light is not directed into objects


And objects that have mass

Have no affect at all

On the path of neutrinos

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Gravity and light Gravity and chiral objects

In the Simple Universe model, there are two types of electric field particles

Short electric field particles from the electron, and the positron that is inside a proton

And long electric field particles from the 'neutral' particle that is inside a proton


Light and neutrinos also produce electric field particles, but for simplicity

Those electric field particles are not included in this discussion

(As a note, the electric field particles from light and neutrinos, also contribute towards a gravitational field)


In the model

Light and neutrinos are helix shaped particles

And helix shaped particles interact with electric field particles in a different way to that of the torus shaped particles of matter


Having two lengths of electric field particles makes no difference for their interactions with the particles of matter

But for light

It gives light a different behaviour in the two types of electric fields


The short electric field particles

Do not change

The path of light


But the long electric field particles

Do change the path of light

The long electric field particles wrap around a particle of light, causing the particle of light to arc along its body and change direction


And neutrinos

Are not affected at all by electric field particles

Neither long or short


In the Simple Universe model

The positive and negative, long electric field particles that radiate out from the 'neutral' particles that are in the nucleus of an atom

Direct light onto a tangential path around the nucleus of the atom


And the same consequence is true in the model, for light when near objects

Light is directed around objects, not into objects

Light and neutrinos are not affected by the consequences that, in the model, lead to gravity for the particles of matter


For example, as a suggestion, in the model

Reflection, refraction and diffraction of light

Are caused by light interacting with the long electric field particles at the surface of an object


As a suggestion

It is the long electric field particles that direct light around a massive object

Such as the bending of starlight around the sun, as observed during a solar eclipse


As a suggestion

The long electric field particles can direct light around a massive object, such as a galaxy

When light from a galaxy passes near to another galaxy or cluster of galaxies, then the light from the galaxy can perhaps, be bent around the galaxy or cluster of galaxies


If this effect were to occur in the model

Then it would be similar to the effect

Referred to as gravitational lensing

The following animation shows how the electron, positron, 'neutral' particle, neutrino and particle of light, interact with the short and long electric field particles in the model, the  Interaction  button steps through the interactions, the   23   input box lists the interactions for direct selection, the  Run  button start / stops the animation (any of the buttons can be used in pause mode)

Electric Fields

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Gravity and galaxy rotation curves Gravity and chiral objects

In the Simple Universe model, light is directed around the nucleus of an atom

The positive and negative, long electric field particles that radiate out from the 'neutral' particles that are in the nucleus of an atom

Direct light onto a tangential path around the nucleus of the atom


A galaxy that has most of its mass at its center

Will also have positive and negative, long electric field particles radiating out from the center of the galaxy

In much the same way that the positive and negative, long electric field particles radiate out from the center of an atom


In the model, the particles of matter that are in the stars that are in a galaxy

All have particles of light attached to the particles of matter

Pushing the particles of matter along


As a suggestion

The positive and negative, long electric field particles radiating out from a galactic center, interact with those particles of light that are attached to the particles of matter in the stars

And like the light attached to electrons when orbiting an atom, those attached particles of light will tend to be directed onto a tangential path around the galaxy


It could be, that calculating the orbital speeds of the outer stars in a galaxy

Might be more complex

Than using an equation for gravity acting on particles of matter


For example, in the model

Electrons in the outer atomic orbitals of an atom

Move faster than electrons in the inner atomic orbitals of an atom


Could it be, that in the model

The positive and negative, long electric field particles that radiate out from the center of a galaxy

Cause the outer stars in a galaxy to orbit faster than expected for their distance from the galactic center


Could it be

That the long electric field particles have a greater interaction with particles of matter that are moving faster and are therefore pushed along by a larger particle of light

Than with particles of matter that are moving slower and therefore pushed along by a smaller particle of light

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Gravity and scientific method Gravity and chiral objects

Amongst other things

Scientific method requires

Observation, scepticism, and clarity of thought


In general

Physics theories are validated by comparing what is calculated using the mathematics of the theory

To what is experimentally observed


In general

Physics theories have a mathematical form

Such as for example, gravity and the general theory of relativity


In the Simple Universe model

The shape of a particle

Is important


The mathematical form of the Simple Universe model

Is a physics engine that models the behaviour, of a three dimensional strand shaped particle

That moves continuously at a single constant speed, against a static universal reference frame, in three dimensional space

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Gravity and modern physics Gravity and chiral objects

Modern physics

Explains gravity

Using Einstein's general theory of special relativity

For reference, here is a YouTube video (2022) of Claudia de Rham discussing gravity (lecture 2 of 4)

Effective field theory of gravity (lecture 2 of 4)

0 minutes : a mathematical lecture...

1 hour 5 minutes : ...end of lecture

For reference, here is a YouTube video (2012) of Dr Bob Eagle discussing galaxy rotation curves (from the YouTube channel DrPhysicsA)

Discussion on gravity and galaxy rotation curves

0 minutes   : principles of a gravitational orbit

4 minutes   : relationship between an orbit's distance and orbital speed

5 minutes   : orbital speed when there is mass present, that is further out, beyond the distance of the orbit

7 minutes   : expected galaxy orbital speeds

8 minutes   : measured galaxy orbital speeds

12 minutes : gravitational lensing of light

18 minutes : calculated distribution of matter in a galaxy, based on the galaxy's observed rotation curve

19 minutes : modified version of gravity

20 minutes : could neutrinos provide the missing mass

21 minutes : could black holes or brown dwarf stars provide the missing mass

22 minutes : percentage of the required missing mass

For reference, here is a YouTube video (2022) of Arvin Ash discussing why quantum mechanics has so far been unable to include gravity, with possible solutions provided by string theory and loop quantum theory

Discussion on quantum mechanics and gravity

0 minutes   : deterministic to probabilistic universe

2 minutes   : why must we quantize gravity

5 minutes   : conflict between gravity and quantum mechanics

9 minutes   : quantizing gravity is difficult

12 minutes : string theory and loop quantum theory

Here is an old video that discusses electric fields and gravity in the model

Here is an old video that discusses light in an electric field in the model (ignore the naming of the 'neutral' particle as a 'dark matter' particle)

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