Introduction to the theory of gravitation

 

 

1)  Assumptions

2)  Description

3)  Experiment

4)  Archive

 

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a)      gravitation is a dipole

b)      inside a mass the dipoles can freely rotate in three dimensions

 

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I do not want to explain why I made such an assumption. I would just like to suggest a simple thought experiment:

A magnet bar (at the beginning of the description it will be a good alternate of the gravitational interaction) should be placed for example on a cork on water. It should be placed in a flat position just like a compass needle. It will freely float on water and will of course take the position north-south. However this interaction is weak and should not be considered for the sake of this experiment. Then we put another identical magnet on water next to the first one placing it in any optional direction. These two magnets will always place themselves in the direction of mutual attraction. Regardless of how we will place them at the beginning they will always take such a position. Further on let’s add another, third magnet. This one will also rotate towards the other two so that it will attract them and so on. With each added magnet the interaction will become weaker and weaker and with a large number of magnets it will finally settle at certain level. This experiment can be repeated with magnetized marbles. They will huddle together in a little chaotic mass but each next one will be attracted. This mass of magnetic dipoles resembles the gravitation dipoles only to a small extent as magnets that have already joined cannot rotate freely towards one another, and the gravitation dipoles can. Because the gravitation dipoles rotate freely in three dimensions we do not encounter negative gravitational interaction, it is not visible. The dipoles will always turn in the direction of attraction. This assumption results in a few matters, one of them is that the gravitational interaction is most probably much stronger then we can feel. What we feel is the result of balancing between attraction and repulsion which finally settles at the level of weak attraction. Following this thought we can wonder if such an attraction really decreases with the inverted square of the distance. It is the resultant of attraction and repulsion so it may come out that the attraction weakens slower than the repulsion which, in consequence in large distances (ex. astronomical distances) will result in repulsion stronger than attraction.

Coming back to the atomic scale. In the atom (proton, neutron, electron) there is one element which can change its direction in a free manner, it is the spin. The axis of rotation of the spin most probably determines the gravitational poles “plus” and “minus”.

 

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Theoretically, testing it by means of an experiment should be possible however would require an appropriate equipment to be constructed. First the spins in some kind of material (solid body) should be put in order, at least part of them because, as I suppose, a huge amount of energy is required to put in order more of them. I tried to place a brass disc in a strong, homogeneous magnetic field that is between two disc made of neodymium magnets. The magnets are motionless whereas the brass discs can be rotated freely to the left or to the right. The spins should place themselves in the “up-down” and “down-up” direction – at least some of them. At this moment nothing is happening yet. Until we start rotating the disc. I assume that the spin rotation speed is very high (if we treat the spin as a particle). I assume an ideal situation in which 50% of the spins is in the up-down position and 50% in the down-up position. When the disc starts to rotate ex. to the right (angular momentum down), the spins with same angular momentum as the disc cannot rotate faster towards the Earth because they already have the speed of light whereas the speed of spins rotating in the direction opposite to the direction of the disc is getting lower towards the Earth. One of the interaction is getting weaker. With the maximum rotation of the disc the spins rotating in the opposite direction will have the zero speed towards the Earth so their interaction with the Earth will change. The interaction of the whole disc with the Earth will be different. Most probably it will be enough to place it on a scales while performing this experiment. Unfortunately my experiment was stopped by lack of appropriate scales and problems with power supply to the drive of the disc (regulated 0-12 V and 0-5 A feeder required). I think playing with similar experiments is worth considering. Maybe that is why the planets lie within Sun’s equatorial plane (plane of Sun’s rotation) as they are pushed in this direction and the gravitational interaction is different in the axis of rotation and the equator.

 

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The experiment described by me was once performed by two Japanese scientist: Hideo Hayasaka and Sakae Takeuchi from the Tohoku University. The experiment was described in the Physical Review Letters, volume 63, number 25, 18 December 1989.

Polish description was published in “Wiedza and Zycie” no 8/1990 under the tile “Ile waza baki” (How much do the gyroscopes weigh)

In this experiment no conclusions are drawn under the explanation that the experimental result cannot be explained by the usual theories.

The experiment was repeated and described by a group of Americans in “Physical Review Letters” (volume 64, number 8, 19 February 1990).

In the American experiment there were no anomalies. However there were some differences between the two experiments. In the Japanese experiment the gyroscope was driven electrically and in the American one by means of an air turbine so in this case there was no magnetic interference and the magnetic interaction is the basis of my experiment.

Unfortunately I did not manage to contact any of the Japanese scientist while I was trying to find out something more on this topic so everything presented in this document are my own ideas and thoughts. I have not tried to contact the Americans. I had started thinking about these things long before the Japanese scientist performed their experiment. Of course I am aware that my assumptions may be wrong but I guess this is the least interesting thing in all this. People get wrong with many ideas.  If you are interested in the topic but have no access to the documents mentioned above you can find them at my site www.fizyka.milimetr.pl or www.physics.milimetr.pl

 

2007-11-14

Regards,

Michał Witkowski

michal.witkowski@milimetr.pl