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UNIVERSAL GRAVITATION


Ricardo L. Carezani

801 Pine Ave. # 211

Long Beach, CA  90813

U S A

Abstract.

Newton's Universal Gravitation has no underlying machinery. Its action-at-a-distance is non-temporal and has no projection in time.  Einstein's Universal Gravitation is simply the space-curvature of the Minkowsky Universe.  Its action-at-a-distance is temporal, without projection in time.

Even though the graviton is not new, the theory elaborated here is original, regarding the overall machinery of the process.  Its action-at-a-distance is temporal, and it has a projection in time.  Gravitons absorbed by matter, transferring their momentum, create gravitational pressure.  The action-at-a-distance is transmitted at light velocity or greater.  Starting from the Mercury perihelion advance, the theory explains the perihelion advance of Venus, Earth and Mars and Binary Stars like DI Herculis and Binary Pulsar PSR J1518+4904.

Graviton absorption by matter transforms matter itself.  The production of gravitons by a catastrophic event is also possible.  Matter evolves with time.  The described mechanism transforms the second law of Thermodynamics, creating a new process for stellar evolution. For Autodynamics the entropy is constant because “singularities” of small entropy are constantly created. Due to the larger gravitational energy, the Friedmann equation is not valid and a new conception of our actual Universe must be a logical conclusion.



1.- INTRODUCTION.

Though the author is in the situation described by Richard P. Feynman in the book " The Feynman Lectures on Physics"(1), regarding his statements about the discovery of a new theory of universal gravitation, he doesn't agree with Feynman's opinion about the "machinery" of the process. Feynman's lecture will be repeated because it is concise and explains his ideas very clearly. Further, the reasons will be given for this author's disagreement.

 


"7-7 What is gravity?

"But is this such a simple law? What about the machinery of it? All we have done is to describe how the earth moves around the sun, but we have not said what makes it go. Newton made no hypotheses about this; he was satisfied to find what it did without getting into the machinery of it. No one has since given any machinery. It is characteristic of the physical laws that they have this abstract character. The law of conservation of energy is a theorem concerning quantities that have to be calculated and added together, with no mention of the machinery, and likewise the great laws of mechanics are quantitative mathematical laws for which no machinery is available. Why can we use mathematics to describe nature without a mechanism behind it? No one knows. We have to keep going because we find out more that way."

"Many mechanisms for gravitation have been suggested. It is interesting to consider one of these, which many people have thought of from time to time. At first, one is quite excited and happy when he "discovers" it, but soon finds that it is not correct. It was first discovered about 1750. Suppose there were many particles moving in space at a very high speed in all directions and being only slightly absorbed in going through matter. When they are absorbed, they give an impulse to the earth. However, since there are as many going one way as another, the impulses all balance. But when the sun is nearby, the particles coming toward the earth through the sun are partially absorbed, so fewer of them are coming from the sun than are coming from the other side. Therefore, the earth feels a net impulse toward the sun and it does not take one long to see that it is inversely as the square of the distance because of the variation of the solid angle that the sun subtends as we vary the distance. What is wrong with that machinery? It involves some new consequences, which are not true. This particular idea has the following trouble: the earth, in moving around the sun, would impinge on more particles, which are coming from its forward side than from its hind side (when you run in the rain, the rain in your face is stronger than that on the back of your head!). Therefore there would be more impulse given the earth from the front, and the earth would feel a resistance to motion and would be slowing up in its orbit. One can calculate how long it would take for the earth to stop as a result of this resistance, and it would not take long enough for the earth to still be in its orbit, so this mechanism does not work. No machinery has ever been invented that "explains" gravity without also predicting some other phenomenon that does not exist."



2.- COMMENTS ON FEYNMAN'S STATEMENT.

Feynman's arguments are irrelevant for a few reasons: First of all, they are anti-scientific, because in science it always will be possible to explain tomorrow what we cannot explain today. From AD relativistic viewpoint his "rain" effect is insignificant. In the theory espoused in this paper, the mass increment of sun and planet is the cause of the motion and it would take an increment bigger than that needed for the motion itself, to counteract the "rain effect". (It is necessary to remember here that the Sun loss, approximately, 4x106 tons of matter each second, as radiant energy, which could be necessary to replace).


3.- ENERGY OF GRAVITATION


We shall suppose that all of the so-called "vacuum of space" is filled with quanta of energy moving in all directions, at light speed or bigger. These quanta of energy will be called pico-gravitons, the classical name with pico for smallest.

The graviton absorption, given their momentum to the absorbing atom's constituent particles represents a radiation pressure. We cannot give more detailed machinery with current knowledge.

Each celestial body will absorb gravitons in proportion to its mass, and the force between any two bodies will change as the inverse of the square of the distance between them, because of the variation in the solid angle that a body subtends as we vary the distance.

Newton made no hypothesis about the mechanism of gravitational force, or about its velocity regarding action-at-a-distance, but this force changes constantly the relative position of all celestial bodies. The hypothesis espoused here produces a force that not only changes the celestial bodies' relative positions but the composition of their matter via the quanta of energy absorbed by all elemental particles. We have, then, a new dynamic to transform matter itself. The gravitational field belongs now to Mechanics: AD’s Mechanics.

It is well known that Mercury's perihelion advances 574 second in a century and it is possible to explain, by perturbation from other celestial bodies, only 531 seconds, living and additional 43 seconds per century even though other explanation is possible(3). This value is explained by the general theory of relativity and this value, as observational value, will be used in our calculation to get the solar mass increment in that period of time (t). Later we will discuss the matter in detail.

If M is the actual solar mass, and X the factor that will give the increment per second in units as fraction of M, (See Appendix 14) we can write:

 Mt = M (1 + 1/X)t                               (1)


The equation that relates the angle f to M as a function of X is:




df = [(G2 Mt) / r3]1/2  dx                         (2)



df = [(G2 M)/r3]1/2 (1+ 1/X)t/2 dX       (3)




Where r is Mercury's orbital radius and G is the universal constant of gravity. The integral of equation (3) (See Endnote E1) is:


    (4)



                    

The interesting values calculated are in Table I.

It is necessary here to make another statement: The Feynman(2) explanation for how radiant energy from the sun is changing, is also irrelevant with respect to the ideas espoused in this paper, because to double the sun mass 3.075 109 years are needed and the mass increment will probably change not the radiation power but the radiation time. Regarding his comment: "If we calculate what happens to the orbit of the earth when the gravity is changing, we find that the earth was then closer in". With the ideas in this paper the earth will not have been "closer in" because the mass increment will only increase the earth's orbital velocity (advance its perihelion) which will increase the centrifugal force to counteract the increasing force of gravity.

For calculation we will take 43''1 per century for the advance of Mercury perihelion, because the variation of values introduced by different researchers will only cause a very small difference in the result calculated with equation (4).

 It is well know that a solar probe, circling the sun much closer than Mercury, would be most helpful in the study of the gravitational effect.

Of course, the quantity of mass received per each gram of mass present, per second, Ms, Me, Mm, is a constant value, and this value will be of universal application to all celestial bodies.

Another constant value, the constant of universal gravitation is the ratio between the mass, in grams, received by each square centimeter of a spherical body, per second, and the acceleration of gravity: Sc/gs for Sun, Ec/ge for Earth, Mc/gm for Moon. This constant is equal to 1.22895716612 10-11 having the following dimensional units: (gr sec/cm3).

With the Avogadro number and an average Sun density of 1.46 gr/cm3 and given an atomic weight of 9.8(4), an atom in the Sun receives (As, Table I) a mass equal to 1.7111 10-40 gr per sec. For comparison, if this energy is carried by only one pico-graviton its mass is (n) 5.3235 1012 times smaller than the electron mass, and its energy, in electron Volt, is 9.5989 10-8 (ne).

Using the gravitational constant, if we divide the value of the mass received by each square centimeter of the Earth's surface, per second, by this constant, the result is the Earth's acceleration of gravity. The same is true for all celestial bodies.

We made the calculation of ne (Table I) supposing that all the energy needed to give the gravitational force is carried by only one graviton, but the general conception should be to suppose that the energy is carried by many gravitational quanta.


4.- SR AND AD COMPARISON.

General relativity equation of the planets perihelion advance is:   



                        6 p G M     

              f  =  -------------                     (5)

                        c2 r (1- e2)


Where e = eccentricity, c = light speed and G, M, and r the usual meaning in this paper.


This equation yield, in a century:


                   42.99" for Mercury

                   8.62" for Venus

                   3.83" for Earth

                   1.35" for Mars                  (6) 




GR cannot explain the values for Venus, Earth and Mars. AD relativity found the same equation and, have course, with the same limitation.

In AD gravitation the equation for the perihelion advance for each planet is equation (4), that is, proportional to the square root of the division of the solar mass by the orbital radius power 3[1].

 

                  fp = ( M/r3)1/2                     (7)


If the Mercury value is take as 43" the values for the other planets are:


                Venus = 16.8"

                 Earth = 10.4"

                Mars  = 5.5"                         (8)


These values are equal to the Hall's empirical values and close to the expected calculated by Newcomb.

The big difference between SR and AD is when the distance to the Sun is smaller. If the distance is 1/3 of the Mercury radius the values are:


                    GR = 129"

                    AD = 223"                       (9)



If the radius is 1/5 of Mercury the values are:


                     GR = 214"

                     AD = 481"                    (10)



It is visible that the proportional difference increase with decreasing radius.

Putting a probe close to the Sun will be easy to test, in a short time, if its perihelion advance is a natural phenomenon beyond the planetary perturbation and if the values are given by GR or AD gravitational equation.




5.- PRECESSION OF THE BINARY STAR DI HERCULIS AND BINARY PULSAR PSR J1518+4904.

It has long been known that Newton's and Einstein's theories fail to describe the precession of binary stars(5). GR's application to the DI Herculis precession grossly fails, giving 3.6 times the periastron of the star, whose values are 0.65 deg/cent (2340 sec/cent) (6), or 1 deg/cent (3600 sec/cent) (5). GR's lower predicted value is 8403 sec/cent with the mass of the smaller star, or 8960 sec/cent with the two star masses averaged. Taking the sum of the two stars mass, as should really be done, the values increase to 17977 sec/cent.

Autodynamics' (7) Universal Gravitation explains 79% (1839.6 sec/cent) of DI Herculis' observed precession (2340 sec/cent.), calculating proportionally with (M/r^3)^1/2, leaving 500.4 sec/cent. (21 %) to explain by the classical tidal force and rotational deformation. Reference (5) also mentions, for a tidal and rotational deformation of the star, a value of 1.93 +_0.26 deg/cent. It is obvious that this value is wrong because, by itself it is larger than the observed value. The right solution equates the sum of the two values with the observed value. This solution is given by the Autodynamics Universal Gravitation equation, as explained above. Autodynamics also explains, using preliminary data, (9) the binary pulsar PSR J1518+4904.

The observed value is 0.011 deg/yr or 3960 sec/cent. The GR calculated value is 5640 sec/cent with mass averaged. AD calculated value is 2262 sec/cent, 57 % of 3960 sec/cent., leaving 1698 sec/cent., or 43 % to other reasons.


6.- CONCLUSIONS.

The Newtonian concept does not give a machinery of motion. GR only gives a curvature in the Minskowsky's Universe. What is espoused here suggests machinery for the force that keeps celestial bodies united and is the cause of their motion. The machinery in this case is not too important because the motion of each body in the Universe is the result of another previous motion. The actual machinery is only important because it provokes an increment of velocity on the orbiting bodies, and because it gives a mechanism for matter transformation as a function of time. The gravitational energy absorption and matter disintegration drove AD to maintain the universal entropy constant because singularities of small entropy are constantly created.



7.- FRIEDMANN EQUATION.

The gravitational energy per cm3 of space, equal to 4.219 10-24 gram/cm3, is comparable to the average of matter concentration in our Galaxy, 10-23 gram/cm3. Contrarily, the Friedmann equation, calculated through Universal expansion give an energy 2 million times smaller, 5 10-30 gram/cm3. AD has a totally new conception of our actual Universe.


 

 

ACKNOWLEDGMENT.                                

The author thanks James M. Gavin and Amnon Meyers for assistance in preparing the English language version of this paper.


                                                                                                                                                      

Endnote E1.

Fig. 1 show, graphically, the simple step needed to get equation E4(1), being X the factor that dividing M give the mass increment as fraction of M, by unit of time.         

 

                                                     

                                                                                         Fig.1   

 

                

                 First second = M + M/X                                                                                (1)


 

                 Second second = M + M/X + M/X + M/X^2 = M + 2M/X + M/X^2          (2)

 

 

                Thirth second = M + M/X + M/X + M/X + M/X^2 + M/X^2 + M/X^2 + M/X^3

                                        = M + 3M/X + 3M/X^2 + M/X^3

                                         = M ( 1 + 3/X + 3/X^2 + 1/X^3 )                                        (3) 

 

 

 

                In t seconds is:

 

 

                                                                                           (4)         

 

                        


To get equation (E4-4)[2] from equation (E4-3) the following step are needed.

 

 

                                   Making                  (5)

 

 

 

                                      (6)

 

 

                                          (7)

 

                                             (8)

 

 

                                              

                                                     (9)

 

 

                                            (10)   

 

 

                                           (11)

 

 

The Integral of equation E4-3 is:

 

 

                                                                             (12)

 

 

                                                                   (13)

 

 

                                                           (14) 

 

 

                                                     (15)

 

 

As all the values are known in the left term of this equation, the second term ‘s value is easy to get starting with an approximate value, and using iteration, the exact value is found.

Calculated values are shown in Table 1 at the end of E4.

 

 

                                                                                                                                                     

REFERENCES

(1).- Feynman Richard P., Lighton Robert B. and Sands Matthew. The Feynman Lectures on Physics, page 7-9, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. Reading, Massachusetts, 1963.

(*).- This is not true for very precise calculations.

(2).- Ibis, page 7-11.

 

(3).- R. Nedved. Physics Essays 7, 374(1994).

 

(4).- This value is encountered as consequence of take in account the ratio between Solar and Earth density, to make equal the two way of calculation.

 

(5).- E. F. Guinan, J. J. Marshall and F. P Maloney, Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Villanova University, Villanova, PA 19085, USA, taken from "Commission 27 and 42 of the AU Information Bulletin on Variables Stars," Number 4101, Kenkely Observatory, Budapest, October 12, 1994, from the WWW.

 

(6).- E. F. Guinan and F. P. Maloney, Astron. J., 90 1519(1985)

 

(7).- D. R. Walz, H. P. Noyes and R. L. Carezani, Phys. Review A, 29 2110(1984). The conclusion espoused in the paper by Noyes is irrelevant, because the electron receives external energy from the Klystron electromagnetic field, confirming the Bertozzi experiment (8) and the Special Relativity equation for kinetic energy. It is impossible then to compare one equation against the other, because Autodynamics applies to decay cases.

(8).- W. Bertozzi. Amer. Journal of Physics, 32, 551(1964)

 

(10).- [48.03] Binary Pulsar PSR J1518+4904: Orbital Precession and Mass Estimates. D. J. Nice (NRAO), R. Wsayer, J. H. Taylor (Princeton), from the WWW.

ø                                    43''      (Sec/cent.) Advance of Mercury's perihelion.

X             3.07503085281e7      Final value for a century.

Ic     6.46172378781474e25      (gr/cent) Solar mass increment per century.

Is                   2.0475707e16      (gr/sec) Solar mass increment per second.                                           

Mas       1.03048351974e-17      (gr/sec) Mass received for 1 gr. per sec.

As         1.71115929339e-40      (gr/sec.atom) Mass received by each atom.

n           5.323519402998e12      Times smaller than the electron mass.

ne            9.59891307454e-8      (eV) The gravitons  are carrying this energy.

Td             3.07503085281e9      (years) Time needed to double the Sun mass.

gs              2.74487579939e4      (cm/sec2) Sun gravitational acceleration.

ge              9.80297286843e2      (cm/sec2) Earth gravitational acceleration.

Sc             3.37333478376e-7      (gr/cm2 sec) Mass received by each Sun cm2.

Ie        1.94349269521443e20      (gr/cent) Mass received by Earth per century.

Ec              1.20474337559e-8     (gr/cm2 sec) Mass received by each Earth cm2.

Rse              2.80004426844e1      Ratio of Sun/Earth, mass received by each cm2.                                                                                                    

Rg                2.80004426844e1      Ratio of Sun/Earth gravitational acceleration.

Me            1.03048351974e-17      (gr/sec) Mass received by 1 gr per second. Earth.

Ns             1.22895716612e-11      (gr sec/cm3) N, Gravitational constant.(From Sun).

Ne             1.22895716612e-11      (gr sec/cm3) N, Gravitational constant. (Earth).

Mm           1.03048351974e-17      (gr/sec) Mass received by 1 gr per second. (Moon).

Mc              1.99347367243e-9      (gr/cm2 sec) Mass received by each Moon cm2.

gm               1.62208555952e2      (cm/sec2) Moon gravitational acceleration.

Nm            1.22895716612e-11     (gr sec/cm3) N, Gravitational constant.(Moon).

Mae           6.46607248058e-40     (gr/sec atom) Mass received by each atom (Earth).

Mam          3.91456989037e-40     (gr/sec atom) Mass received by each atom (Moon).

Table I.



 

1  This 43” per century is not the value calculated by SR. It is the value astronomical observed as it is explained in Section 3. It is possible to start the calculation using any known value, i.e., the acceleration of gravity on Earth  or any other  value.

[1] It is not necessary, in each case, to calculate X to later calculate f. The procedure is redundant and the proportion give the correct value as a simple proportion.

[2] In the first version of this paper, written by Carezani 40 years ago, the integration was approximate because the rigorous solution give a second degree equation and the numerical calculation was difficult then to do.