What is gravity?
Gravity is not a simple radial force field as described by Newton and nor is it curved space as claimed by Einstein. Instead, it is an energetic electromagnetic field which pervades the entire universe...
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Bad science: Michelson-Morley
Abstract The famous Michelson-Morley experiment is examined and found wanting in every respect. Although cited as proof that the speed of light is constant everywhere in the universe and in all directions, the experiment...
Newton’s First Law: Circular Definitions and Modern Insights
Newton’s first law of motion says that an object stays at rest or keeps moving at a constant speed in a straight line unless an outside force changes it. – Wikipedia This may seem...
Interpreting Newton’s Second Law
Abstract The proposed structure for theoretical physics posits that ‘Reality’ is subject to measurement and interpretation through a mathematical framework. It argues that fundamental concepts like force, mass, and acceleration are not inherent aspects...
Is Acceleration Absolute? Debunking Physics Myths
Abstract The discussion centres on the distinction between motion and acceleration in the context of relativity. While motion is deemed relative, dependent on a frame of reference, acceleration is asserted to be absolute due...
A beginner’s guide to science denial
Almost all of modern physics is divorced from actual reality despite claims to the opposite. The fundamental nature of Reality Physicists repeatedly claim physics as a description of the very fundamental nature of reality...
How do planes fly?
Mainstream science has no explanation in terms of fundamental physics for the phenomenon of flight. The usual explanation involving Bernoulli’s principle is not fundamental, is irrelevant to this particular problem and is, in any...
Arthur Yu’s water engine
Abstract This post looks at the ‘water engine’ discovered by Arthur Yu and described by Gerald Pollack in his book The Fourth Phase of Water. The explanation from Pollack that the flow is driven...
Einstein’s relativity vs. actual reality
Abstract An attempt is made to understand Einstein’s theories of relativity, particularly with respect to the central idea of an inertial frame of reference. Available descriptions are confusing and contradictory with definitions of the...
The gravitational ‘constant’
The ‘gravitational constant’ is measured via the Cavendish apparatus shown right. Some metal balls are mounted on a torsion balance and attempts to measure the attractive force between them are made. Calculations are performed...
Do we weigh more at the poles?
The claim that we weigh less at the equator because of centrifugal force is not supported by empirical data. Natural variations of the gravitational field owing to variations in planet density are sufficient to...
Gravity as an inertial field
Gravity is a ‘field of inertia’ that accelerates towards the Earth and forms a frame of reference for the kinetic behaviour of all solid objects. Objects moving with the acceleration are in free-fall and...
Gravity debunked
The formulation of gravity as a ‘force’ that acts upon the gravitational mass of an object is not supported by experimental observation and leads to theoretical absurdities. The ideas of force, mass, acceleration and...
A vortex topology for the universe
This post suggests an overall toroidal topology for the universe and tries to introduce a most important idea which is that the physical measure of distance is dependent upon (gravitational) field strength (Boscovich, Meyl)...
There is no ‘fine tuning’ of the universe
There are no fundamental constants and hence no fine tuning of the universe is necessary. Most fundamental constants come from the need to translate between the different ‘stuffs’ and energies of contemporary physics. Once...
What is the sun?
The sun is the centre of a giant cosmic energy vortex. Field energy spirals inwards and condenses at the centre to produce the hydrogen ball described by astronomers. All energy is supplied from the...
Problems with physics
The science of physics has a good quantitative agreement with a wide range of experimental data, but as noted by David Bohm, falls short of an even half-comprehensible description of the nature of reality....
Gravity v electromagnetism
We are hearing often now that the electromagnetic force is many times greater than the gravitational force and that therefore the dominant force in nature is the electromagnetic. This assertion is then used to...
The nature of gravity
The idea of gravity as consisting of attractive forces emanating objects with ‘mass’ is easy enough to understand but leads to problems as explained in a paper by Tom Van Flandern. Anomalies can be...
Newton’s gravity
The Law of Gravitation from Isaac Newton is described as consisting of a force-field that emanates from an object by virtue of its mass and affects other objects at a distance by virtue of...