Beyond Newton: An Explanation of Gravitation

By Dewey B. Larson

Recommended to anyone who thinks the subject of gravitation was opened and closed by Einstein. -- The Science Teacher, December, 1964 The more we study gravitation, the more there grows upon us the feeling that there is something peculiarly fundamental about this phenomenon to a degree that is unequalled among other natural phenomena. Its independence of the factors that affect other phenomena and its dependence only upon mass and distance suggest that its roots avoid things superficial and go down deep into the unseen, to the very essence of matter and space. -- Paul R. Heyl, Scientific Monthly, May, 1964 For three hundred years it has been accepted as an incontrovertible fact that there are only two possible explanations of the gravitational phenomenon: action at a distance or propagation of the effect at a finite velocity through something with the properties of a medium (ether, field, or deformable space). This work presents a third alternative that has been completely overlooked by previous investigators: a process analogous to the inverse of an explosion, in which the individual mass units merely act as if they are exerting attractive forces on each other, whereas in truth each is pursuing its own course completely independent of all others. The mere fact that this development has produced an entirely new concept of a logical and self-consistent nature in a field which has been exhaustively studied for centuries by the best scientific minds is, in itself, a noteworthy achievement. But this is much more than just another hypothesis comparable to the original two, neither of which is at all satisfactory. This new theory meets all of the requirements of a complete and satisfactory explanation of the gravitational mechanism.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CVH7CG5K
• ISBN13: 9798879315028
• Release Date: August 1963
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 168 Pages
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"