The Findlay-Haenggi Theory of Gravity (FHT)

[What this Blog is about]

As astronomy enthusiasts and hobby astronomers, we just had to come up with our own thesis on how gravity might actualy work, connects to quantum mechanics and what the implications where. :-) Please don't get us wrong here, we're no wannabe Einstein's or "yes WE found it geeks", nor do we try not to proselytize anybody. Up until recently we simply had a hard time getting constructive feedback on our thoughts.

We need you, being an academic or not, to simply have an open-minded look at our thoughts and give feedback. What do you think? What did we miss?, Where's the flaw?, Is there actually some merit to it? Please feel free to contact us directly - we would highly appreciate it! We know too well, that especially the Internet if full of such “alternative” theories. We don’t want to waste you time with yet “another” idea. Instead, simply drop us a line stating whether you think we should advance any further. That would already be of great help to us.

[Findlay-Haenggi theory (FHT) in a Nutshell]

The mechanism by which a body with mass interacts with space time to create the fields (energy distributions) of General Relativity

Gravity is a local effect. Protons and all materials with mass take the energy required to exist from the surrounding space time. This causes the space(-time) to become smaller in the region around the particle and hence the space(-time) gets bent and stressed. This then causes the surrounding space(-time) to give up energy too, which causes all particles with mass to approach each other at an ever increasing rate. Thus particles with mass appear to “attract” each other, even over great distances. The resulting effects are what is called "gravity".

Assumption 1:
In the theoretical absence of matter and fields, spacetime still has some energy

Assumption 2 based on Assumption 1:
The amount of energy in any given volume of spacetime is proportional to its volume.

Corollary to Assumption 2:
If you remove energy out of space time, the volume of the spacetime will contract.

Proposed mechanism of how matter bends spacetime:
All material with mass interact with space such that the space loses energy (vacuum energy) and the material gains kinetic energy

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