2. Introduction

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Gravity has always been a mystery…

 

With thanks mainly to Sir Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein we have achieved some knowledge, however gravity is still not fully understood. This arises because we don’t fully understand the following:

  • How can we involve a force without disturbing space-time.

  • How can space transfer a force, if gravity really is a force.

  • How the galaxies and solar systems were created.

  • How the astronomic bodies were created.

  • How matter amasses.

  • Whether dark matter and dark energy are connected to gravity.

  • How black holes are created.

A new expression of gravity, "Space Curves" was introduced 100 years ago and has since been a famous and usable expression, specially for a pure geometric/mathematical understanding.

 

The main problem is that we don't know much about what space really is.

 

Our immediate impression is that space is nothing. How can 'nothing' curve?

 

To reach a deeper understanding of gravity, it is obvious that first of all we need to better understand how space plays a role in the gravity phenomena and if a force is really passing through it.

 

We don’t have many options when it comes to better understanding space. The expression 'curvature of space' has not been able to take our understanding further in the last 100 years.

 

We know that space can expand  so therefore it must also be able to contract.

So we have 3  different properties of space

  • Curvature

  • Expansion

  • Contraction

We simply don't know what 'curved space' really is.

It seems improbable that space would have 3 different deforming properties.

 

This article will show what happens when we equate curvature of space with contraction of space

 

In doing so three properties will be united into one simple concept; "a flexible space", which means that space is not quite as mysterious as before.

 

There are several factors that support the idea that such simplicities are relevant. We will look deeper into these factors.

Whether one fully accepts such a simplification, is not necessary, for understanding this article.

 

What has changed is so far only an expression.

In our introduction we have made the basic assumption that curved space is in reality contracted space, the opposite of expanded space.  Assuming this will give us an interesting main thread. This article will try to follow this main thread to see where it brings us.

 

Even if the expression: "Matter Contracts Space" seems to be close to the well-known: "Curvature of Space", this article will show that such simple changes are merely in expression. In reality this theory opens, not some, but all the doors to fully understanding the cause of gravity and more.

 

Well, this “immediately” sounds too good to be true. But think about attempting to solve one mystery. Most likely some of your findings will contradict other information. That "Matter contracts space" seems to solve 10 to 12 huge mysteries and is met with little by way of contradiction or opposition. Even further, "Matter contracts space" leads us to a more complete understanding of existing theories.

 

This assumption will quickly lead to the conclusion that our understanding of central gravity has been based in part on a serious misunderstanding;

 

For the last 300 years we have accepted that our knowledge about how two or several fields of gravity affect (and counteract) each other was correct (and it is), and that this expression of a law of gravity should be used to understand how one single field of gravity centrally cancels itself out component wise, (but this is wrong).

 

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When we draw a comparison between Einstein’s and Newton’s claim; there need not be any disagreement between the discoveries of these two great thinkers. The claim of Isaac Newton that ‘there is a force of attraction between bodies’ could just as well be the force which is responsible for the curving of space.

 

The curvature of space leads us to think that there may be some link between matter and space. Put simply, this is because space curves are proportional to the amount of matter in a gravitational field. Even though we cannot see space it must somehow be linked or connected to matter.

 

We also know that space (and energy) somehow created matter.

Either space and matter were divided after the creation of matter or; there always has been a connection between space and matter, and space and matter have a continuous, exchangeable co-existence with each other.    

 

The main thread of this article is; does space 'contracts' have the exactly same meaning as space 'curves'.  In looking into this it leads us to ask questions about gravity. The currently accepted understanding of what space is, is suitable purely for mathematical/geometric purposes. The new expression is more suitable for our mind.

 

A large part of this theory doesn't need to be proven as it follows from the work of Albert Einstein and Sir Isaac Newton.

It is essential we understand that ‘space curves’, ‘space deforms’, and ‘space time’ are all expressions of the same phenomena. Nothing should stop us from adding ‘space contracts’.

 

Understanding space in a contraction framework sets us to better understand what happens to space in the presence of matter.

 

The question of how matter causes space to curve, deform, or contract will remain the same.

The chapter 'quantum physics' will give a good suggestion as to how this might be possible. There it will be shown that a force driven by the spin of elementary particles can be responsible for spinning space together until it contracts and curves.

 

So far this sounds pretty simplistic, but it also seems quite possible that Isaac Newton made a big mistake a long time ago that neither Einstein, nor anybody else discovered. This mistake that has prevented us from better understanding central gravity. In the next chapter "Dark Matter" we will uncover what went wrong 300 years ago.

 

This theory can also easily show how to unite the 4 force of nature as well as uniting relativity theory with quantum physics.

  

 

 

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