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Neither physicist nor writer, the author of this essay follows his intuition and uses his imagination. For French translation, click: Click flag for French Version
Space-time curvature

First here is an analogy for space time curvature.

The sun stretches its surrounding space just as a child stretches the fabric of a trampoline.
The earth is then guided by the sun's space-time curvature as a marble would be by the trampoline's curvature.
Even though colorful, the analogy physical reality doesn't match the reality of the solar system.
Both child and marble make physical contact with the trampoline's curved material fabric.
By contrast sun and earth are in contact with nothing. How could there be any interaction between non-material space-time (or nothing) and material mass?

In the analogy is an overlooked clue that can be used as a guide.

The child, the marble and the trampoline are all of same nature; all are physical all made of matter or material mass.
In the solar system though, while the sun and earth are material, space-time is instead immaterial.
Our intuition, should we listen rather than ignore its wisdom, suggests that to interfere the elements at play cannot be of disparate constitution.

Or, in order to interfere among them the elements at play should be of same nature.

Now here is an unheard-of yet pragmatic idea.

The innovation consists in a drastic departure from conventional thinking:
  1. The first claim is that earth's motion is an entity as distinct and as real as earth's matter. While motion is not material as earth's matter, motion is physical and occurs just as matter exists.
    Dear readers, before reading farther, please acknowledge that motion is physical.
    You might think: "But I know that"! Then good for you, just continue...
    Yet in case you're not convinced, click Note 1: motion is physical all right!
    In the following, earth's very motion takes over earth's behavior.
  2. Having in mind that motion is physical and that also means that it (motion) can be acted upon, the innovation consists in claiming that the sun's gravitation does not act as a force on earth's mass as chosen in physics. The sun's gravitation instead acts on earth's motion; the sun's gravitation interacts directly and controls the motion of earth.
  3. Because the sun's gravitation interacts with earth's motion, the clue provided in the above analogy mandates that both sun's gravitation and earth's motion are of same nature. We are then led to think that the sun's gravitation is made of motion.
    And to go full circle, earth's own gravitation now is made of motion, just as the free fall of any object on earth testifies!
    To get back to our subject and using conventional language, the sun's gravitation interacts with the earth's own gravitation, and not with earth's mass.
  4. Finally, for such interaction to occur, 2 distinct yet overlapping motions must interact; and that happens to be a pre-existing fact (Note 2).

Gravimotion and physics...

The idea behind gravimotion is not to challenge physics' theories.
Just as the quantum theory is incompatible with the relativity theory, gravimotion's interpretation of Nature is incompatible with physics' interpretation of Nature!
Yet none of the 3, relativity theory, quantum theory, and gravimotion's interpretation of Nature contradicts Nature.

In gravimotion we make abstraction of the abstract in favor of the physical.

Somehow one's mind to start with is reluctant to the idea that motion is what makes the earth circle the sun...
One's mind is also reluctant to consider that motion is what makes objects fall!
That can't be! That's too simple! There is no force in motion! It goes against physics fundamental tenets etc...
Yet I ask the question: why does one's mind consider not motion that one's eyes see?

Why does one's mind imagines this complex chain of events: the sun's (inert) mass creates (mysteriously) a (dynamic) force (or space-time curvature), and that force (or space time curvature), which is applied (in a mysterious way) to earth's mass moves earth's mass?
When one can simply think that some type of motion surrounds the sun that controls the very motion of earth.
A great advantage of this new gravimotion speculation is that it unites under one single reality of motion all those mental concepts of ours that are: space, time, gravity and force.
This author favors to base its own description of gravitation on the tangible entity of motion rather than on hypothetical space, time and alleged curvature and force!
Besides bringing back into the physical world the explanation of gravitation, gravimotion overwhelmingly simplifies that explanation! The word gravimotion, which merges the words gravitation and motion, synthesizes in our human language the oneness of reality.

And this is only the tip of the iceberg; gravimotion turns downside up far many more human traditional concepts...
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Note 1:
Here is physical proof that motion exists as an independent entity and may occur independently of matter:

When I mention that motion is an entity of its own, I am often told: "But motion cannot occur without matter."
My answer is straight forward: consider the light that comes out of the sun and ends up hitting your retina. Physicists teach us that light has no mass! Light which moves itself across space and which has no mass is pure motion!
Your eyes, which sense the colors of light are marvelous motion detectors! By the way your skin, which feels the heat of the sun rays, is another pure motion detector!
One's brain (and mind) needs physics mathematics along with this page pragmatism to realize that light, temperature and gravity are all implemented through various formats of motion, and furthermore that light, temperature and gravity are all sensed by one's body as occurrences of motion.
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Note 2:
Here are 2 examples of motion interacting on motion
  • Einstein famous "time dilation concept" is used as first witness.
    Time dilation, and that has been verified experimentally, coincides to the slowing down of a clock when that clock overall motion is increased (in a plane for instance).
    In that experiment physicists claim that time is slowed down! Yet that is misinterpreting reality!
    Any pragmatic mind sees instead that the clocks' internal motion mechanism is slowed down by the clock's overall motion!
  • Another example of motion interacting on motion, is the Coriolis effect.
    In this case earth's spin motion interacts with the motion of storms moving from equator to pole, through difference of pressure.
    The spin of earth creates a swirling effect that transforms the storms in cyclones.
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