Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Gravity

Gravity is not a ‘force,’ like electromagnetism.  It is the inevitable consequence of our three dimensional membrane, within which we are all trapped, curving into the fourth dimension.

Imagine a flat piece of paper on a table.  That two dimensional piece of paper represents our three dimensional membrane.  If you take a pencil and push up the middle of the paper into a hill, the membrane is now being curved into a new dimension.  As you push that pencil up, you are representing our universe moving in time, moving into a fourth dimension.

We - you, me, all ‘matter’ - are moving even when we think we are at rest.  Not just in the sense that the earth orbits the sun, or the sun orbits the galaxy.  I mean that even if we were to find a way to be truly still, we would continue to move into the fourth dimension, as more and more of the universe is created

All matter is moving at the speed of light at all times.  That matter can choose to use some of that movement within the three dimensional membrane.  Whatever amount of ‘speed’ is left over is spent moving into the fourth dimension.

As we move into the fourth dimension, it’s as if we are heading to the top of the hill in the paper example.  So if you are standing next to me, and not using up all of your ‘speed,’ and I am not using up all of my ‘speed’ (in the three dimensional membrane,) then we will both be heading to the top of that hill as the three dimensional membrane pushes further into the fourth dimension.

The curve of that ‘hill’ and the inevitable motion of the three dimensional membrane forces you and me closer and closer.  We experience this as gravity.

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