The Gravity Hypothesis is Wrong.
The most rudimentary consensus on gravity, is it causes mass
to accelerate towards mass. When the cause of this acceleration is
questioned the answer is because gravity
. Clearly, the fundamental
concept is completely circular. However this lapse in understanding is
not due to a lack of higher education, but merely a consequence of
the current model being unfounded.
So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.- Nicolaus Copernicus
Really try to grasp at what Copernicus is saying here: astronomy is not a valid science. Fundamentally, pseudoscience will merge observations we make into the hypothesis itself, and further make these observations interchangeable with their causes.
"Observe the effect, invent the cause. It's Science."
Setting Bad Precedents
Einstein defrauds the Scientific method. In 1915 he submits 4 papers
to the Prussian Academy of Science Proceedings, explaining General
Relativity. His papers are the first peer reviewed
scientific
literary pieces to assert theoretical models with not a single
experiment. While Cavendish (poorly) attempted to present an experiment a century before,
Einstein completely neglects to provide one.
Predicting natural
phenomena based off a hypothetical model
does not establish a cause without further experimentation. The cause in
this case is concerned with why gravity
alters the state of matter, not
what it does to matter. Pointing at math equations which mimic the effect of gravity
does not explain the real thing. Math ≠ physical proof.
Observation is the first step in the scientific method, then hypothesis, then a well thought out experiment and eventually postulate a Theory. This is why the scientific method has been totally obfuscated in modern research: Einstein excluded empirical research in conjunction with an independent, dependent and a controlled variable.
A Refresher on the Scientific Method
It came as quite a shock that Elementary school's have changed the
way in which they teach the scientific method. The old school way
is rigorous and uses inductive reasoning as previously stated. Let's
match the definition of the scientific method up to a common science
experiment
.
On Bill Nye the Science Guy, we see the dropping of a feather and bowling ball in a vacuum. We observe two objects with differing mass, density and shape falling at the same rate. Does this prove gravity? According to the Scientific method, no!
All we are able to conclude is the rate at which an object falls is dependent on the air pressure, which was our independent variable. Nevertheless, we are still only observing the effect of falling. We cannot work backwards and establish a cause. The scientific method is not bidirectional.
We can acknowledge the effect of a downward force, however observing the effect of this force does not prove the cause of gravity (the cause is what science is concerned with) because that isn't coherent with the definition of the scientific method.
Gravity is a reification. The definition of the
root, reify from Webster is: to consider or represent
(something abstract) as a material or concrete thing : to give definite
content and form to (a concept or idea).
There are no physical
attributes of Gravity itself, because gravity isn't a force but an effect
of something inaccessible to mere mortals. The most honest take one could hold
is to acknowledge that the current model of gravity is
at best an educated guess and at worst completely baseless.
Experiments
Cavendish
Cavendish's non-experiment consisted of building an apparatus to demonstrate mass attracts mass. He designed a rod hanging from a wire with two masses at either end. Next to this rod were two lead weights. A source of light pointed at a mirror connected to the rod would measure any rotation, if the masses were to allegedly attract.
Why is this an invalid scientific experiment? To begin, we never observe
mass attracting mass. Orbiting planets, in other words action at a distance
phenomena, are merely assumptions. If we observe two bodies moving towards
each other, the term attraction is dishonest.
The hypothesis is not even slightly rigorous. Is a mass moving in the general direction of another mass? Hypothesis proven! You can't isolate the independent variable (which is the mass assumed to be causing movement) separate from the movement itself, since the movement is the verification of the hypothesis. This is clearly circular reasoning and a very poor attempt at following the scientific method.
What's more apparent is how flawed and imprecise the apparatus is: it was in the late 18th century after all. Any carpenter will tell you perfect precision is impossible, especially two hundred years ago. All it takes is for the wire to not be directly attached to the center of the rod, which may have varying density, causing some inner torque and friction. The imbalance from anomalies like humidity, holes, or the grain of the wood, could easily be the missing variable behind the minute movement of the masses towards the weights.
Not only is concluding mass attracts mass dishonest, it's a inversion of what the word mass conceptually means. Inertia is the tendency for an object to resist a force. It does not imply that same object can cause a force in and of itself.
LIGO
But dude! Gravity is made of waves! It has been proved
through experimentation!
Great to hear. If you thought of LIGO
(Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory) as evidence, try
again. This facility (allegedly) detects gravitational waves to prove
gravity's existence. That should already raise a red flag
but let's be rigorous.
Firstly, a wave is not a particular, it is a happening. A wave is a type of behavior, which cannot by itself be a physical item. If I threw a pebble in a pond and asked you to point to the wave, where would you point? Where does the ripple start and end? Sure we can observe and measure the wave but that wouldn't tell us anything about why the wave is occuring. What caused the wave? The pebble.
In
science, to say something exists is a natural claim. It must be a
physical entity. The ripple in the pebble example is not made of ripple
particles
or in gravity's case a fabric of space-time
but
instead is an abstract idea that is reified to make sense in a physical
framework. We cannot conflate the behavior of the water with water particles.
Observing phenomena doesn't imply a cause. In other words, it doesn't answer why something happens: Hearing something loud does not answer why it sounds loud; Seeing something fall doesn't explain why it falls. Observation is a prerequisite to establishing a physical cause.
Secondly, how do we know this wave behavior isn't something else? If we are
trying to find what a gravitational wave looks like, how do we know
what to look for? We have theoretical models!
Right, because
theory is always the same as practice. Having a candidate model wave
and then looking for it in empirical data is the definition of
confirmation bias. We aren't even observing gravitational waves, we are
just inferring thats what we see. In the case for LIGO, how do we
conduct an experiment proving an undefined variable (gravity) using
undefined variables (space-time)?
Spacetime isn't Measurable
Space and time are conceptual and cannot by themselves establish the cause of anything, no matter what experiment you try to come up with.
Space
Space is the privation of matter. Similarly shadows are the privation (or absence) of light. In either case we can observe effects and mistake them for causes (like in Plato's Allegory of the Cave). A shadow is not a particular, it is the effect of an object and a casting of light. The light is a variable so we can turn it off, resulting in no shadow. However there isn't even an independent variable to observe space. There is no way of verifying the distance between two points in space from only one vantage point. It'd be pretty ignorant to base a theory off of something we can't verify.
If space is the absence of matter, to claim we can measure it is nonsensical. It'd be like saying we could quantify the effect of coldness. This is really just measuring the amount of heat (average kinetic energy).
Freeman Dyson suggested
that gravity might be like temperature in a way: You can measure
temperature, you can talk about temperature, but you can’t quantize it,
there is no way you can talk about temperature as a quantum object. There
is no such thing as a tempon
. This is the process of reification. There
is no such thing as a graviton
either.
Time
Secondly, time is conceptual. It's an abstract tool we use to measure changes in magnitude we see in the natural world. We cannot directly observe time or its properties directly. That is, it's not a material object but a perfect concept. Observing change in things is simply an observation of particulars not time itself. For example, observing that a satellite runs 38 milliseconds fast every orbit does not automatically imply time is a physical quantity that can be compressed or stretched.
If anything this arrogant conclusion assumes the calibration of our measuring tools is perfectly precise and that it's impossible there's some other variable we're not seeing. For example, a weak battery can cause a watch to slow down. It would be very silly to claim time caused the watch to change. Just as it'd be incorrect to claim time causes milk to spoil - that would be bacteria. It is more probable the time discrepancy in satellite clocks could be hypothesized in physical terms, like thermal shock.
Time transcends the natural world. It's a number of motion. We can only indirectly observe time through a physical medium.
So if time and space are abstract concepts how can they be independent variables with physical properties in an experiment to explain the phenomenon in question?
Straw Men
Well can you see wind?
Our argument
does not claim if we can't see something it isn't real. We can remove wind
by setting up a wall, and can verify it causes a flag to wave or not wave in it's absence.
Replicating this removal with gravity is not feasible. You'd have
to make many assumptions about it before you could propose an
alleged experiment.
Well can we see wifi?
We know wifi exists because it
took experimentation to engineer it. Obviously they didn't get devices
working with wifi on the first try. All technology goes under extensive
trial and error. The reason we've gotten
so far with technology is because of electricity and magnetism. Unsurprisingly,
wifi is just a radio (electromagnetic) signal.
The experiments and research done with E&M are actually based in the scientific method. Furthermore, E&M has a much more grounded explanation to how matter interacts with matter and is the only true source of force (and perhaps sound) we have ever undoubtedly confirmed.
As a hypothetical, would it be plausible a planet with a giant magnetic core could propagate electric fields, causing objects to cling to its surface, like that of a charged balloon?
For gravity
, its supposed self validating experiments are
just research grants being done in the name of further understanding E&M.
Even if we wanted to
measure the bend in Space-Time like with LIGO, we'd be measuring
Spacetime from within Spacetime itself. Since there is no reference
point the whole experiment is not scientific.
Foolishness
To say the bending
of Spacetime can be measured is complete absurdity. Space and time
are the two fundamental preconditions for observation. How
can we measure the bending of spacetime if it inherently encompasses the prerequisites
of measurement?
Academic arguments for this stuff comes off as satire:
Spacetime
There is a bend in Spacetime because of this wave we saw through our machine which matches the modeled wave we created.- NASA Intern
When we ask ourselves what the physical properties of Spacetime are, such that it could be bent, we quickly realize the concept is a poetically unnecessary description of what we're observing. This bears no weight in the scientific method. There is no basis in reality for the fabric of Spacetime.
Dark Matter
Wait! There isn't enough matter to justify the way the universe is behaving! Might as well misplace concreteness by inventing a negative space called dark matter. Sure it isn't verifiable, but it fits the model. You wouldn't want to question grand assumptions that has progressed us into modernity now, would you? Now that we have concluded dark matter has to exist it turns out there is exactly enough of it to justify our hypothesis of the universe! The good thing about science is it's true whether or not you believe in it! Oh wait.- Neil DeSmush-stache Tyson
Epistemic Nihilism
It's important to point out that the scope of Einstein's relativity extends outside the field of science, making its way into postmodern modes of thought. How so? If we can never truly know the velocity of a body, since allegedly there's no reference point, then why shouldn't everything be relative? In other words under relativism, all points of view are equally correct, and simultaneously flawed.
The shock that we can't know the full picture through the scientific method is a slap in the face to materialists, and they smuggle in metaphysics to justify the cause of physical observations.
Gravity's Explanation is not Scientific
At the end of the day science has utterly failed to demonstrate the cause of gravity. Soyentists can only describe the what i.e. the effect, not explain the why. They claim an immaterial magnitude, 9.81 m/s², is the cause for how objects fall which is only describing physical law and is by definition not science.
We cannot recreate gravity, manipulate it or explain it through experiment. Science's explanation for gravity is not scientific, but instead esoteric. It borrows from metaphysics, yet it's taught as if it were strictly mechanical. It would require just as much, if not more faith to believe this contradiction, than to accept our limited ability to comprehend the natural world was predetermined and is ultimately good.