HISTORY: Le Sage's Push-Gravity Theory

Purpose and Field-Coupling Principle

Georges-Louis Le Sage’s push-gravity theory, originally formulated in the 18th century, proposes that gravity is not an intrinsic attractive force between masses, but the result of an isotropic sea of ultra-mundane corpuscles bombarding objects from all directions. Within the framework of Resonant Relativity, Le Sage’s mechanical model serves as an important historical precursor to modern particle-flux and zero-point energy screening concepts. While classical push-gravity faced insurmountable thermodynamic objections regarding drag and thermal radiation, its core premise—that macroscopic attraction arises from environmental flux shielding—foreshadows field-impedance and energy-density gradient mechanics.

Core Mechanics and Corpuscles Shielding

Le Sage attempted to explain Newtonian gravitation through purely kinetic, mechanical interactions:

• Isotropic Flux Sea: Space is permeated by an invisible, highly energetic flux of tiny corpuscles moving at immense speeds in all directions.
• Shadowing and Attenuation: When two material bodies stand near each other, each body blocks a portion of the corpuscular flux headed toward the other. The sides facing away from each other receive full bombardment, while the inner-facing sides receive a reduced flux.
• Net Compressive Force: This imbalance creates a net external push driving the two bodies together, mimicking an attractive force that obeys an inverse-square law over large distances.

The net force (\(F\)) experienced by adjacent shielded masses is proportional to the blocked flux density (\(\Phi_{\text{flux}}\)) and the effective interaction cross-section (\(\sigma\)) of the matter:

Historical Critiques and Reformulations

Historically, push-gravity was heavily criticized because material bodies should experience massive relativistic drag (halting planetary orbits) and generate catastrophic amounts of thermal energy from corpuscular absorption. However, twentieth- and twenty-first-century physicists (such as Radzievskii, Kavalov, and Puthoff) revisited these kinetic models by replacing mechanical corpuscles with electromagnetic zero-point radiation fields, transforming push-gravity into modern stochastic electrodynamic screening models.

Significance to Resonant Relativity

Le Sage's theory demonstrates that apparent attractive forces can be generated entirely by environmental pressure imbalances within a medium. Within Resonant Relativity, this mechanical intuition finds modern expression in vacuum-density gradient models, where spatial variations in wave propagation velocity and energy flux dictate gravitational acceleration without requiring action-at-a-distance.