An Electric Universe
On the one hand, gravity is well established as a force. It is impossible to dispute the fact that Newton;’s gravitational equations have been, and still are used by all the space agencies to calculate the influence of planets, moons and the sun on the trajectory of space shots.
But let’s take a step back, Until recently there were deemed to be four fundamental physical forces: Gravity, electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force and the weak nuclear force. The need for these last two forces, which we weird anyway because they only seemed to act within the atom, evaporated with the advent of a new and better model of the atom (read the book The Nature of The Atom by Kaal, Otte, Sorensen and Emming for details).
The remaining two forces could be said to be both similar and different. The electromagnetic force is vastly stronger than the gravitational force. To illustrate this staggering difference, consider the interaction between two protons. The electromagnetic repulsion between them is approximately times stronger than the gravitational attraction. If it were twice as strong it would be overwhelming, but 10 to the power 36 is unfathomably stronger.
This is why modern astrophysics is a train wreck, awash with bizarre ideas like black holes, dark matter, dark energy, big bang, neutron stars, etc. – all of which are mathematical fantasies based on considering gravity to be the dominant force in the universe.
The two forces are however suspiciously similar in the following way. The equations for calculating both forces look suspiciously similar. They are as follows
Even if you have no love for mathematics, you can see the similarity. Each consists of a constant multiplied by two components (masses m1 and m2 in the case of gravity) and (charges q1 and q2 in the case of electromagnetism) with these components divided by the square of the distance between them.
That could, of course, be complete coincidence. But it also might mean that gravity is simply a special case of the electromagnetic force for masses that have no charge. The discussion of this is too involved to cover in a single posting here, so we will leave the addition of the suspicious facts that contribute to the discussion to another posting, for the next newsletter.