From General Relativity to Graviton Pressure Theory
Why General Relativity describes gravity without explaining it, and what a force-based model offers in its place.
Graviton Pressure Theory
How does gravity really work?
Physics can predict where a falling apple lands to many decimal places. It still cannot say what touches the apple. Graviton Pressure Theory proposes an answer: gravity is a push from a medium outside, not a pull from within.
The question physics stopped asking
A map is not a mechanism.
General Relativity is one of the most precise descriptions ever written. It says objects follow the curvature of spacetime. It does not say what physically pushes or pulls them along that path, or how curvature makes your legs feel your weight.
A description can match every measurement and still leave the cause unnamed. Graviton Pressure Theory starts where the description stops.
“The description is extraordinarily precise. The mechanism is unspecified.”
The test applied to every explanation
What touches what, and what is exchanged?
An explanation that names a physical contact is a mechanism. One that only names the effect is a description. The same test is applied to mainstream physics and to Graviton Pressure Theory itself.
The idea in three steps
The same principle that lets air pressure hold a suction cup to glass, applied to a medium that fills all of space.
A medium fills space
Space is not empty. It is filled with a field of tiny particles, gravitons, streaming in every direction at or near the speed of light. They repel each other, so after they collide with matter they spread out and recover.
Mass shadows the flow
Matter absorbs and slows part of the stream passing through it. Near a planet, less of the medium arrives from the planet's side than from open space. That difference is a pressure gradient.
The imbalance pushes
Pushed harder from outside than from below, objects move toward the planet. What we call weight is the ground pushing back against that inflow. Gravity is a push from outside, not a pull from within.
The papers
Free to read in full. New to the theory? Follow the Start Here pathway, or see every paper in the library.
The Reduction Conflation
Two theories giving the same numbers do not agree about what exists. How physics switches between force and geometry without saying so.
The Boulder Audit
A worked test of what each framework says is physically happening when a boulder rests on the ground.
The Unified Framework, all thirty parts
The complete framework: the graviton field as the physical substrate of gravity, with the mathematical formulation and proposed tests.
The Mechanics of the Medium
The medium's properties worked through in detail: self-repulsion, oscillation, inflow toward mass, and the effects they combine to produce.
The book
The Unified Framework for the Graviton Pressure Theory
The complete framework in one volume, by Shareef Ali Rashada.
ISBN 978-1-326-48805-5 · Lulu Press
Where the work stands
A theory earns trust by showing its open problems. Here is what is finished and what is still being worked out.
Physicists and mathematicians who want to help solve the open problems, or test them, are welcome. Write to shareef@peopleoftheworld.net.
- DoneA detailed critique of how General Relativity is explained and taught, published as formal papers.
- DoneA qualitative model of the medium and how it produces weight, orbits and tides.
- OpenDeriving the bending of starlight from the medium's own properties, rather than matching General Relativity's number.
- OpenA flow equation that gives the measured inverse-square law with the right units throughout.
- OpenAn experiment where graviton pressure and General Relativity predict different results.
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A four-minute introduction, and Le Sage's push theory of gravity revisited. Every part of the framework has its own Deep Dive episode in the library.
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