Newton discovered gravity but found it inconceivable that inanimate matter caused it:
“It is inconceivable, that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation of something else, which is not material, operate upon, and affect other matter without mutual contact;…” (Wilczek, 2008) p77.
If matter is only moves by physical contact, how does the earth pull the moon without touching it, or the moon cause tides on earth? Newton had no answer, nor does science today, as that matter alters space and time is just as inconceivable as that it acts at a distance. Matter moves in space and time, so how can it change what defines it? The standard model solution was that unverifiable virtual photons cause electro-magnetism, but this trick didn’t work for gravity, so the idea that matter changes space and time only deepened the mystery.
Yet we know that fields spread everywhere because Wi-Fi works, so why can’t the earth have a gravity field around it that keeps the moon in orbit? Clearly the earth has effects far beyond its boundaries as even in a plane high above the earth, gravity keeps passengers in their seats and the earth’s magnetic field affects compasses. The problem is the belief that these fields act by creating particles, but gravity doesn’t work that way.
However, if matter is a process that repeatedly overloads a network that passes it on every cycle, the earth has a quantum field around it that reaches far beyond its surface. This field is currently called imaginary, but quantum theory calls it a field of potential existence, so quantum realism accepts that matter spreads its existence around itself.
How then does this field spread? According to Gauss, any flux spreading over a sphere surface diminishes as the inverse square of its radius (Figure 5.8) (Note1), so a spreading processing flux will reduce as an inverse square of distance. The earth then spreads processing around itself that decreases in a predictable gradient.
As established, matter moves when the field around it is stronger one way, and the processing gradient around the earth has this effect. The earth doesn’t directly touch a satellite orbiting it, but its quantum field does, to bias the field around it to make it move. It makes the field around the satellite stronger nearer the earth, so its matter trembles more often that way. The earth then moves matter not by particles that push but by changing the quantum field around it.
Classical objects only move when touched but by quantum theory, the quantum field of the earth touches all the matter around it. Gravity is then when the processing gradient around the earth biases the tremble of other matter towards itself. It is not just any field but the original field behind all others so in this model, the quantum field explains all the forces of physics, including gravity.
Note 1. The flux transferred across a sphere surface reduces as the inverse square of its radius 1/r2. Newton’s law of gravity F = g.m1.m2/r2 with m1 and m2 masses and g constant is an inverse square flux law, as is Coulomb’s law F = k.q1.q2/r2 with charges q1 and q2 and k constant. Both laws come from Gauss’s flux law.