Dancing Lessons From God. |
"Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth." Jean-Paul Sartre "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." — Umberto Eco |
Every physical object is made up of matter. Everything you have ever seen, every force you have felt, every person you have loved or hated, every creature you have ever met. On a larger scale, these things are all composed of atoms, like the elements of the periodic table. These atoms are composed of particles, known as protons, electrons, and neutrons, which are charged positively, negitively, or neutrally respectively. That means that all matter has an electric charge. We know from the elementary school science that dfferent charges are attracted to one another. Who hasn’t performed an experiment involving some wires, a screwdriver, and a battery?
Gravity is commonly believed to vary in force depending on the mass of the objects involved. Now, I may be entirely incorrect, but it makes sense to me that gravity functions in this way because the more mass an object has, the more atoms it has packed into one area, so the more particles it has, and thus the more charged matter it has. The more charged matter an object has in a smaller area, the stronger the magnetic force.
We may not even need a quantam theory of gravity. Perhaps we already have one and we just aren’t looking at it correctly. Perhaps it is simply a very common phenomena known as electromagnetic attraction.
Just a thought.