lördag 4 februari 2023

What is Wrong with Newtonian Gravity?

This is a continuation the previous post on the Universality of Newtonian Gravity. If Newtonian Gravity is Universal, how come that this is not what modern physics is saying? In what sense was Newton wrong?

Here are the main answers to the question What is Wrong with Newtonian Gravity?:

  1. Newtonian Gravity is an “action-at-a-distance” theory. Newton himself was deeply concerned about this.
  2. Newtonian Gravity is not compatible with the world of special relativity. 
  3. Newtonian Gravity is contradicted by observation of the perihelion advance of Mercury and gravitational waves.
  4. Newtonian Gravity does not interact with propagation of light. 
Let us now analyse the validity of these arguments. In our non-standard view with gravitational potential primordial, there is no action at distance and so 1. is not an issue. 

Special relativity is a theory empty of real physics as shown in Many-Minds Relativity and so 2. is neither an issue. 

The claimed disagreement of Newtonian Gravitation with observations of the perihelion advance of Mercury may very well depend on neglect of proper influence from other planets and from the Sun. Until all such aspects have been taken properly into account, it is impossible to say that Newtonian Gravitation is wrong and so 3. is not necessarily an issue.

Newtonian Gravitation concerns dynamics of particles/bodies with mass and so say nothing about interaction with massless light, and so 4. is neither necessarily an issue. 

Summing up, we find that the reasons behind viewing Newtonian Gravity to be wrong are weak. The price to pay by dismissing it is very high, since Newtonian Gravity appears as the only Theory of Everything in  physics.  


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