Here`s another bout of heavy reading.

Goodbye Graviton.

'Blowing a mans head off,is a bit much'-Brion James in Tango & Cash

First let's look at the masses of some 'elementary' particles.

What can be deduced from these figures?

Well it doesn`t bode well for the existence of the graviton.If there was such a particle exerting a unit of force then all these masses might be expected to show a pattern- ie One might expect 3 gravitons in an electron,6 in a muon,or something like that.And then the rest mass of the muon would be exactly twice that of the electron.

So therefore,at the very least,the heavier particles must contain thousands of gravitons for the graviton theory to hold up-an unpalatable prospect.

So its unlikely that a unique partcle mediates the gravitational force.Maybe we need to try to understand the environment in which these particles exist to understand gravity.

Motion And Interaction

The key to understanding gravity might come from the realisation that unlike in the macroscopic world in which we live where most objects are apparently stationary,in the atomic and subatomic world we`re constantly faced with rapid motion.

The question is could such motion exhibit a certain measure of synchronicity?Faced with variations in the electromagentic field around it,will an electron,say,orbiting a hydrogen nucleus really spend as much time in all areas of its s-shell(the region where it`s precicted to exist) or will it be deflected slightly?

The answer to this is obvious.Of course it will be deflected.It might be deflected so much as to cause permanent bonds to be formed with neighbouring atoms,producing molecules.Neutral particles attracting each other and combining into molecules-This is the common chemists food and drink!To a lesser extent,electrons should exhibit some synchronous behaviour with more distant atoms and smaller attractive forces should be present.Such forces could just add up to be the force of gravity.However,in fact it`s unlikely that they do.

The assertion that gravity is caused by the synchronous motions of particles,may be hard to accept,but other experiments support such a notion.Particularly strong evidence come from the behaviour of liquid helium,'helium II',which begins to show signs of weightlessness,climbing up the sides of containers at low temperatures.

Matter annhilation?Fusion And Fission

What happens in a nuclear reaction?In both fission and fusion reactions we get a great release of energy in exchange for a loss in mass.How does this observation support our gravitational theory?

Are we really destroying matter in these reactions,or is it something more simple?

It could be that in these reactions we`re altering the positions of elementary particles and reducing their opportunities to participate in the synchronous motion which causes gravitation.These particles are becoming more tied up with their close neighbours,creating more stable atoms in the process..

The Behaviour Of Light

If you`ve read the wave-particle section you`ll see the photons behaviour can be explained in terms of a small attractive force existing between photons and other matter.As the photons spin faster,they attract more,as their positive and negative components get more separated,producing a greater dipole moment.

That`s Enough Of The Sci Fi