On Oct 24, 2009, Mauro Lacy wrote: Please consider the following scenario. I'll talk here about two forces, but you'll see later that they can be unified:
- An electron approaches a proton, attracted by both, the electric force and the gravitational force(to a much weaker extent). - Approaching the Bohr radius, an inversion process start to manifest for the gravitational force: it starts to increasingly repel instead of attract. Let's not hypothesize now about the reasons for that to be happening, just let me describe the theory. - At the Bohr radius, the repulsive gravitational force equals the Coulomb force, and the electron is stable in its orbit. - Inside the Bohr radius, the repulsive force continue growing up to a certain point, that lies somewhere in the middle between the orbit of the electron and the center of the nucleus. - After that point, gravity becomes attractive again(but much strongly), and after that, its strength diminishes(not increases) with distance to the center. And that's the nuclear force. The Bohr radius is then the result of the interaction of the Coulomb force with the "repulsive mode" of the gravitational force. The other orbitals are other points of equilibrium of these "two" forces. To see this more clearly, it's good to think about "spheres of influence". Please let me give you an example: If we think of the Moon-Earth system as a whole, and refer all to the center of the Earth, we can see that gravity(related to that center), could be repulsive: something that is under the gravitational influence of the Moon, will be seen as being repulsed from the Earth. And somewhere in the middle between the two celestial bodies, a point of unstable equilibrium will exist, from which everything is repulsed in one or the other direction. Continuing the analogy, if we go now to the interior of the Earth, we'll notice that, although gravity is still attractive there, its strength now changes directly with distance, not inversely with the square of the distance. This is similar as the way the nuclear force operates. So, we have two interfaces: At a point between two celestial bodies, the "sphere of influence" changes, and so the direction of action changes. That's equivalent to a point somewhere in the middle of the electron orbit and the center of the nucleus. At another point(at the surface of the bodies), a different inversion process occurs, and now the force, that continues acting on the same direction, suffers a "change of mode": It becomes in a direct relation to distance, not an inverse square relation. That's the domain of the nuclear force. This is another (good) way to see it: Center of the Earth (stable equilibrium) <- surface of the Earth <-- Point in between (unstable equilibrium) --> surface of the Moon -> center of the Moon (stable equilibrium) Center of the nucleus (stable equilibrium, nuclear force domain) <- "surface" of the nucleus <-- Point in between (unstable equilibrium) --> "surface" of the electron -> center of the electron (stable equilibrium) The arrows with two hyphens (<--) mean "force changes with the inverse of the square of the distance". And the one hyphen arrow (<-) means "force changes with the direct of the distance". As you can see, I think that the electrical force and the gravitational force can be unified, so we have only one force, with just different modes of operation according to scale, "environment" and "sphere of influence". In the atomic domain, the electric mode of operation predominates to a point. In the celestial domain, the gravitational mode predominates to a point. But they are only aspects of one and the same fundamental "force". In my humble opinion, this is the right path to grand unification. The reasons for the behavior or different modes of manifestation of this one underlying "force" must be sought in the domain of waves and wave interactions, and I'm working on that at the moment. The integration of the other forces must also arise as a consequence of a wave model of this fundamental force, and of its interactions. Hi Mauro, 10-24-09 This is a neat theory. I like to think that forces are applied (mediated) by particles (a "field" is a fiction useful for calculations). So, gravity is a push (by gravitons) as proposed by Le Sage -- does this work with your theory? Jack Smith
