PHYSICS NOTE NO. 1
SUMMARY THEME OF PART I OF THE PHYSICS OF CREATION
Copyright © Harold Aspden, 2001
GRAVITATION AS AN ELECTRODYNAMIC FORCE
Understanding the true nature of gravitation and what determines the value of G, the Constant of Gravitation, is the essential starting point in any attempt to explain how the universe was created. It is the force that holds matter together on a grand scale whereas mutual electrical attraction between positive and negative electric charges holds the component particles of the atom together on a microscopic scale.
It is an intuitive assumption in physics that the phenomenon of gravitation has more in common with magnetic attraction than with the electrostatic interaction force that acts between electric charges of opposite polarity. The reason is that mass as the seat of action of the force of gravitation does not exist in positive and negative units and in electrostatics like polarity charges invariably repel one another. Bearing in mind that like polarity charges in mutually-parallel side-by-side motion develop a force of attraction between them, an electrodynamic force which no doubt is the basis of the force of attraction found in magnetism, common sense tells us that our task in understanding gravitation has to focus on the subject of electrodynamics.
Therefore, the topic one needs to address is the scope for analogy between the law of electrodynamics and the law of gravitation, otherwise known as the quest to discover a ‘Unified Field Theory’. Everything centres on finding a common thread between these two laws of force. This is the subject of Part I of this work ‘The Physics of Creation’.
The theme develops essentially in accordance with the initial chapters of my book ‘Physics Unified’ and that suffices to provide an answer to the task: “Describe briefly the difference between Einstein’s explanation of the physical cause governing the force of gravity and that offered by Aspden’s Theory.”
I record here the following answer by way of an introduction to Part I of this work:
There are two very significant differences between Aspden’s theory of gravitation and Einstein’s method of accounting for gravity. Aspden retains the traditional Gallilean three-dimensioned space frame of reference and develops his theory of gravitational force action by simple analysis of energy deployment. Einstein, on the other hand, requires an imaginary four-dimensioned space frame of reference and develops his theory by resort to a complicated form of mathematics by analysis of field, as opposed to energy, criteria which imply that the space frame itself is actually distorted on a cosmic-ranging scale by the presence of matter. Aspden’s theory merely requires a locally-confined disturbance of the space frame of microscopic proportions. Both theories give the same law of gravitation governing the motion of planets around the sun, but Aspden’s theory is superior in that, by recognizing a role played by the physical underworld of quantum theory. He sees the force of gravity as being an electrodynamic interaction set up in a frame having motion relative to the electromagnetic reference frame shared by matter, the latter having the quantum jitter motion prescribed by Heisenberg as the basis for his Principle of Uncertainty. Thus Aspden provides the long-sought ‘Unified Field Theory’ which eluded Einstein. Furthermore, Aspden is able to derive the value of G, the constant of gravitation, in terms of other fundamental constants, including the electric charge of the electron. Aspden’s theory points to the existence of an underworld of energy activity in what we regard as empty space, an exotic leptonic underworld involving ongoing particle creation and decay, alive with muons and taons, the former dominating and so determining the inertial frame of reference, whereas the latter serve to provide dynamic balance for the quantum jitter motion of matter and, in so doing, provide the electrodynamic action we call ‘gravity’.”
The Lectures relevant to this Part I of ‘The Physics of Creation’ will, when written, be listed for access here. In the meantime, the reader may find it of interest to inspect those Lectures which have been entered in the corresponding Physics Note 3 relating to Part III.
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