Organizing the thoughts I have had for years about the universe and after extensive contemplation on the subject of gravity, I have come to some new conclusions that I will try to explain in this article.
I do not know if what I am about to write has been written before or not, but I assure you that I have thought about them on my own. After mature consideration, I believe that there may not be gravitons, certainly not in the form of a particle... If they exist, they may be in the form of strings, but these thoughts will be expressed in the future.
We all know about fields, for example, the electromagnetic field... There, the magnetic lines are denser at the magnetic pole, so the field is stronger.
In the gravitational field, the strength of the field is not constant but varies depending on the distribution of mass in space. It's not strange that planets are mostly on the same plane around our star, or within a relatively narrow space compared to the gravitational sphere around the Sun.
The concept I have pondered relates to the notion of motion initially. As explained in a previous article, the present consists of moments. Moments, being photographic frames, are stationary. The passage of time collecting many moments in sequence creates the phenomenon of motion.
Force, such as gravity, is measured in Newtons. Newtons are equal to kilograms times meters per second squared, per second elapsed. Thus, time clearly plays a role in force: gravity, as well as all forces.
We have said that there is spacetime, the universe, the fabric upon which everything is pinned, the stars, the planets, you and I are said to be spacetime. I don't think we are much concerned with the existence of the word "time" within the term spacetime.
So, I will give a different dimension to the concept of the gravitational field. As is known, there is time dilation when the gravitational field increases. But what does this mean? It means that time within the field flows more slowly than outside, far away from it. But why does this concern us if we don't intend to leave it? How do we understand the flow of time? If it flows fast or slow since this is relative to something else outside the field, and we cannot know it unless we compare it...
To avoid digressing, I will tell you the secret of all ages (whispering in your ear):
There is no gravitational field.
What?!
Am I crazy? Have I lost it?
And yet. The gravitational field is possibly the macroscopic result we perceive but not the cause. What do I mean by all this?
I have increasingly begun to believe that what exists is a field of time. That at specific points in spacetime, there is a distortion, a folding of it, resulting in mass concentration. Due to the folding, time flows more slowly, allowing matter to accumulate there. The dense time lines in this region of space are responsible for the movement of a body towards it.
It is reasonable to think that a body moves not only in space but also in time. So perhaps the direction of motion towards the "gravitational" center is due to the direction/orientation of the time vector towards the "temporal" center in the folding of dimensions. And due to the increase in time lines, we have a decrease in the flow of time, much like if we were to narrow the diameter of a hose, the flow lines would condense, and the fluid's speed would decrease.
So, perhaps the cause is indeed the density of the spacetime field, and the macroscopic observed result is the gravitational force, not the other way around.
Perhaps we should now talk about a temporal field, without the necessity of the existence of a carrier/particle of interaction, but rather the space itself propels the movement of bodies as it has this distortion in this region and this direction in the flow of time.
And since time has a direction from the past to the future, perhaps we should consider it as a vector quantity now and, just like with displacement, take into account where time points because it may not only point towards the future but, since it is associated with space, it may also point towards a spatial direction.
Think about it, moving towards the temporal/spacetime center because of the time vector, and for so many years we've been calling it gravity and searching for something that might not exist, or searching for the result as the cause when the cause might be right in front of our eyes. In our clocks.
I'll be back.
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