When you consider everything that you see as you look around, it becomes clear that you are being bombarded by a seemingly constant and infinite number of photons from every possible direction---not to mention any other massless particles that are NOT light. Any ONE particle will cause a pressure on contact, albeit barely there. But if you take into account the SUM TOTAL of such particles flying all over the universe, it wouldn't seem unreasonable that on a large enough scale that the SUM pressure exerted on any given object with mass may be large enough to result in what we see as GRAVITY. The amount of pressure this field of particles could exert would be dictated by the mass that these paricles hit. More mass, and the particles hit with a little more energy. Put a smaller mass next to a larger one and the acceleration caused by the larger mass will actually cause particles to push the smaller mass towards the next largest mass. The spacetime curve would be coincidental.
2006-11-22
03:58:14
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