STATE OF THE ART: Gravitational Alternatives and Push Mechanics
Abstract
An audit of alternative gravitational models—ranging from Le Sage push-mechanics and scalar-tensor frameworks to Modified Newtonian Dynamics—highlights historical attempts to escape geometric spacetime curvature. By re-engineering these theories through transmission-line mechanics, we replace abstract pull forces with medium-pressure gradients and attenuation limits.
Le Sage's Gravitational Push-Gravity Theory
Orthodox Approach: Proposes that gravity is caused by a shadow effect from an isotropic flux of ultra-mundane corpuscles bombarding matter from all directions, historically rejected due to thermal drag and energy absorption contradictions.
Resonant Relativity Translation: Upgrades primitive corpuscular bombardment into continuous hydrodynamic substrate screening and pressure gradients. Matter acts as an impedance sink or scattering node that drops the local energy-flux pressure of the Lumen substrate, resulting in directional net pressure toward regions of higher volumetric loading.
Brans-Dicke Scalar-Tensor Theory
Orthodox Approach: Introduces a scalar field alongside Einstein’s metric tensor to satisfy Mach’s Principle more rigorously, allowing the gravitational coupling parameter to vary dynamically across space and time.
Resonant Relativity Translation: Evaluates scalar coupling constants as mathematical proxies for variable substrate elasticity (\(\kappa\)) and local permittivity variations, demonstrating that field compliance shifts in response to large-scale mass distribution.
Nordström’s Scalar Theory of Gravity
Orthodox Approach: An early relativistic alternative to General Relativity where gravity is governed by a single scalar potential that scales both mass and the local speed of light.
Resonant Relativity Translation: Assesses scalar potential variations directly against local energy-density coupling and volumetric displacement, validating its core intuition that gravitational fields operate by modulating propagation velocity rather than warping multidimensional geometry.
Milgrom’s Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND)
Orthodox Approach: Modifies Newton's second law or gravitational attraction at extremely low acceleration thresholds to account for flat galactic rotation curves without invoking invisible dark matter halos.
Resonant Relativity Translation: Interprets galactic rotation anomalies as transmission-line attenuation limits, phase lag, and low-density bandwidth cutoffs where the Lumen substrate reaches its compliance ceiling over astronomical spans.