Gravity Update

Quantum gravity:
We now know a little more about "free space". Free space, the space between galaxies, "intergalactic space", used to be thought of as a vacuum. Because: All particles of "matter" had probably been swept up by the billions of galaxies existing in the known universe, since the "known universe" has been around for some 15 billion years.

But now we know differently. "Thus the vacuum is neither empty space nor a purely geometrical structure: it is a physically real medium that interacts with matter and produces physically real effects." [1]

As all Space Cadets know, intergalactic space was previously thought to contain a "luminiferous aether", the transport mechanism for electromagnetic energy, light, radio waves, etc. A very reasonable assumption since "waves" must have some medium to travel in. But then, an experiment showed "no drag" on bodies traveling through the aether, and short-sighted but largely-arrogant "scientists" quickly proclaimed "there is no aether". But still, having some medium to transport waves of energy, and possibly something else, made sense.

Today, quantum physics scientists call free space the quantum vacuum. It's also called the zero-point energy field. The quantum vacuum is the transport mechanism for light (electromagnetic waves), matter, and other forces and fields we will consider. The "aether" is reborn!; it's just a little more subtle than previously thought.

So, what does this have to do with gravity?

Today we know gravity is being opposed by "dark energy", the proposed force that's causing the expanding universe to keep expanding faster and faster. The source of the dark energy? The quantum vacuum, which is always "seething" with a "desire" to create new matter, thereby expanding the universe. Where does the new matter come from? From matter swallowed up by millions of super massive black holes in practically all of the galaxies in the universe, continuously. Everything gets recycled.






Notes

[1] Laszlo, Ervin, Science and the Akashic Field, An Integral Theory of Everything.
PP-62. ISBN-13: 978-1-59477-181-1, ISBN-10: 1-59477-181-2. (Back)