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.
Yet if matter only moves by physical contact, how can the earth keep the moon in orbit without touching it, or the moon cause tides on earth? Newton had no answer, nor does physics today, as that matter alters space and time is just as inconceivable as that it acts at a distance. Even a field that creates particles can’t change space and time, so how does gravity work?
The simple answer is that gravity is a field that doesn’t create particles. We know that fields act at a distance, as a router can provide Wi-Fi for a whole house, so why can’t a gravity field around the earth keep the moon in orbit? The earth’s magnetism affects compasses in a plane far above it, so gravity can also keep people in their seats. Just because the standard model can’t invent a particle to explain gravity doesn’t mean it isn’t a field.
Matter is processing on a network that passes it on, so the earth will have a distribution around it that decreases with distance. By Gauss’s law, a flux spreading over a sphere diminishes as the inverse square of its radius (Figure 5.8) (Note1). If a processing flux is the same, the earth’s distribution will weaken as an inverse square, to give a processing gradient around it. What then is its effect?
The earth’s distribution strengthens the quantum field around it closer to earth. Matter restarts more often where the field around it is stronger (5.3.3), so local objects fall to earth. Essentially, the massive distribution of the earth biases the tremble of matter towards itself. It doesn’t touch a satellite in orbit but just changes the field around it so it moves more often one way. Gravity then doesn’t pull objects, as Einstein said, but imposes a processing gradient on the space around it to bias their movement.
This model is based on the quantum field, defined as the total processing of every point of space. This field, based on quantum theory, then attributes the earth’s gravity to the processing gradient its matter imposes on the quantum field around the earth.
Note that the standard model calls its fields quantum fields, but they don’t explain gravity. It also calls quantum theory imaginary, and so doesn’t accept the quantum field proposed here. Quantum realism replaces all standard model fields with one field, by accepting that quantum theory is real, so the strong, weak, and Higgs fields are unnecessary inventions (4.5.3).
Classical objects only move when touched, but the gravity gradient of the earth touches all the objects around it, to bias their natural tremble towards itself. Gravity then arises from the quantum field, so it is unstoppable.
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.