Gravity Breakthrough: Springing into a Gravitational Revolution
By Roland Michel Tremblay
Roland Michel Tremblay is a French Canadian author, poet, scriptwriter, development producer and science-fiction consultant. See his website here: http://www.themarginal.com/
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Gravity is one of the most familiar everyday phenomena, yet it has
mystified scientists and laymen for centuries. Even today, although the
current official position on gravity is a continual “space-time
warping” around objects - a claim from Einstein’s General Relativity
theory, it is also still widely considered an endless attracting force
emanating from objects, as claimed in Newton’s gravitational theory.
Setting aside the troubling implications of two different physical
descriptions of gravity in our science for the moment, it turns out
that the behavior of a simple spring may hold the final answer to this
age-old mystery.
Consider what happens when a loosely coiled spring is stretched apart
from both ends while laying on a tabletop, as shown below in the
left-hand frame. The opposing forces spread equally across the spring,
causing an equal coil spacing across the spring, which also occurs
whether either force pulls fully from the very end or is divided to
pull directly on each coil:
 However, with only a single continual pulling force on one end, shown on the right, the coils stretch more at the leading
end as they strain to continually accelerate the ongoing resisting
inertia of the rest of the spring. In this case, there is successively less stretch toward the trailing end as there is successively less trailing-coil mass to cause inertial drag.
This deceptively simple experiment has enormous implications for
both Newton’s gravitational force and Einstein’s ‘warped space-time’
theory of gravity - and for understanding the true physical nature of
gravity itself. The first important point is that it highlights a
widely overlooked but critical error surrounding Einstein’s famous
“space elevator” thought experiment, which forms the foundation of his Principle of Equivalence and his later associated General Relativity theory of gravity.
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