The Gravity Of The Situation

By Ian R Thorpe

Have you noticed in recent years how scientists are getting above themselves. Time was the words scientist and mad were as inseparable as cake and cream, dog and hot or Now we aren't allowed to suggest scientists are completely bonkers or even maybe a tad obsessive compulsive, we can't even question them about what purpose is likely to be served by their flushing stupendous amounts of taxpayer's money down the toilet. Ask a question about what we are likely to learn from studying the brain activity in dead fishes or investigating why when you walk while carrying a cup of coffee the liquid sloshes from side to side (only a scientists would have to think about that one)and you will most likely be told that because you are not a scientist you will not be able to understand the science. Well some people might fall for that but I didn't get where I am today without

being able to recognize an evasion when I see one. The point I am getting to is scientists really don't know anywhere near as much about science as they'd like you to think they do. Take gravity for example. If you want to piss off a scientist ask they about gravity, what it is and how it works. But first familiarise yourself with a few things so you can trip them up when they try to dodge.Gravity is the force of nature that keeps our feet on the ground as any fule kno. We were all told at school of how Isaac Newton, a man with very poor taste in wigs, sat under an apple tree to have a really big think, and suddenly an apple fell on his head which interrupted him just as he was thinking about thermodynamics. "Bugger" said Newton, rubbing his head, "I've forgotten where I was with my thinking now. Not being able to recapture his train of thought he started thinking about apples and conceived the theory of gravity. If a meat pie had fallen on his head he might have dreamed up the theory of gravy and the world would be a very different place. Gravity was quickly accepted as the reason that apples fall downwards and given credit for many other wonderful things. But after a while, physicists came to understand gravity was a very strange physical law. Compared to other basic interaction forces, gravity was very difficult to explain. If Newton's theory of gravity was right then a lot of his other ideas were wrong. Scientists are not very bright and get tetchy when people who do not have degrees in 'science' point out the problems with gravity, for example that according to Newton every motion needs a driving force which must come from an energy input. So where is the energy input that provides the force that pulls apples off trees. And how can gravity be strong enough to hold the moon in place in its orbit around the earth but not strong enough to prevent weak little creatures like us from holding a two pound bag of sugar at arms length for a considerable time. Now at last, after years of squabbling in the scientific community, because science tits really hate new ideas, some of these peculiarities may soon be understood: Professor Eric Verlinde, a respected string theorist and a professor of physics at the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of Amsterdam, has proposed that gravity is not a fundamental interaction force, but instead may be the

derivative of another more fundamental power. Professor Verlinde published a new theory of gravity On the Origin of Gravity and the Laws of Newton (pdf) in 2010, and revealed his ideas in The New York Times The New Scientist also featured his theory in a much easier to read article. He argued that gravity is a consequence of the laws of thermodynamics. Reversing the logic of 300 years of science, his contention is that gravity is an illusion that has caused continued turmoil among physicists, or at least among those who profess to understand it. So that anonymous graffito was true: "Newton was wrong, the earth sucks. And Noam Chomsky was right when he said, "Everything you know is wrong." For me, gravity doesnt exist, said Dr. Verlinde. By this he does not mean that the Apple will no longer fall to the ground, but that Newton was barking up the wrong tree when he tried to explain why it falls. Dr. Verlinde, along with some other physicists, believes physics has been looking at gravity the wrong way and that there is something more basic from which gravity emerges, the way stock markets emerge from the collective behaviour of individual investors or how elasticity emerges from the mechanics of atoms. The essence of his theory may be relevant to the lack of order in physical systems. It's a tragic irony that while scientists crave order in all things, the natural order of things is chaos. Verlinde's theory might well end up being called bad hair day theory of attraction. It goes like this: your hair frizzles in the heat and humidity because there are more ways for your hair to be curled than to be straight, and nature likes options. So it takes a force to pull hair straight and override natures other options. Forget Einstein's curved curved space (an idea he thought of while looking at Marilyn Monroes curved hips, some say,) or the spooky attractions described by Isaac Newtons equations. The new theory is that gravity is essentially an entropic force. An object moving around other small objects will change the disorder surrounding the objects and

gravity will be felt. Based on this idea in the Holographic theory, he can derive Newtons second law of mechanics. In addition, his theory on the physics of inertial mass is also a new understanding. Dr. Verlinde postulates that the force we call gravity is simply a by-product of natures propensity to maximize disorder. Research on the universe in modern science is essentially based on the theory of gravity and the wholly unsatisfactory string theory which may provide an elegant mathematical model for a fictional universe but when tested in reality requires physicists to make up science fiction stuff like black holes, dark matter and dark energy that can be used as band aids to be stuck over the gaping wounds in the logic. If gravity does not exist, then our understanding of the galaxy and the universes structure could be wrong. This may be why astronomers often find it difficult to explain gravitational movements of distant celestial bodies and have to introduce the concept of dark matter to help balance the equations. A new theory of gravity could shed light on some of the vexing cosmic issues that physicists come across, like dark energy, a kind of anti-gravity that seems to be speeding up the expansion of the universe, or the dark matter that is supposedly needed to hold galaxies together. It may stimulate scientists to seek a new understanding of the universe. Which would be good because the old one stinks. Weve known for a long time gravity doesnt exist, Dr. Verlinde said, Its time to start yelling about it. Think about gravity for a few minutes. Have a really big think as winnie The Pooh would say. Think about things like this: Newton only claimed that gravity was an attracting force between all objects because that's the way things appear to an observer, objects fall to the Earth or approach each other when floating in outer space. It is understandable then that Newton reasoned it must be some type of attracting force emanating from objects. That is as far as Newton went towards an explanation however, he gave no scientific explanation for this force. Why does it attract and not repel? How does it cause falling objects and orbiting planets without drawing on any known power source?

When Einstein frustrated by our lack of understanding of gravity even two centuries after Newton, invented an entirely new theory of gravity as a warping of "four - dimensional space-time" known as General Relativity Theory.

Einstein's warped theory

Einstein's theory, or thought experiment, is even more unsatisfactory than Newton's, and also suffers from the same problems as the gravitational force theory. WTF is "four-dimensional space-time" (every Doctor Who fan knows time is the fifth dimension) and why would the presence of matter cause it to warp? Can this warping of four dimensional space - time explain the weight of objects in our hands or the energy expended by gravity as it drives the dynamics of the universe? Where is the apparently unlimited power source for it all? After both Newton's and Einstein's attempts to explain gravity, we are still mystified by it today. Physicists are searching for "graviton particles" within the atom or "gravity waves" rippling through deep space, theorising about dark matter and dark energy (both of which cannot be seen, touched or put in bottles but which "must exist because something has to explain how the universe works, or they are dreaming up God particles, hoping for some sort of physical verification for one gravitational theory or another. Meanwhile, they are inventing even whackier theories of gravity, such as Quantum Gravity and String Theory. One of these might turn out to be right, Gravity is a

complete mystery in our current understanding of the universe even today, which honest physicists admit. One of my big problems with the modern academic community is the more they are questiond the more they look like fanatical priests of a medieval cult who insist that God only talks to humans through the medium of ordained clergy. "You're not a scientist, you don't understand how science works," they scream. Indeed I am not a scientist, my educational qualification is in literature. I don't place much value on educational qualifications, how does something that I did forty years ago define what I'm capable of today? My Eng. Lit. does however qualify me to remind members of the Science Inquisition that science does not work, it is a noun, a naming word. Verbs are doing words, they work. The science tits believe that by saying "I'm a scientist," they will put you in awe of their superior intellect. Don't be bullied, they are sheeple, clinging to the dogmas and creed of the quasi religious cult as tightly as any religious zealot. If somebody can't explain to you in simple terms what they do, they don't know what they're doing. Question everything.

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