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Ok..I assume you've heard of the extremely famous formula E=MC2. What this means is that mass and energy and related and connected to each other. For example, Uranium 238. You split the atom by adding one neutron to the nucleus of the atom and make it so unstable that it can't hold itself and it splits. When you add the two seperate atoms you created my spliting the atom, the two pieces do not add up to the total amount you had when you had an atom of Uranium 238 because part of it was turned into energy. So that's how E=MC2 works.
Now think of a car moving down a road a lets say 80 KPH. You can find the cars energy by finding the car's momentum by:
Momentum = Mass X Velocity.
Lets say the car has a mass of 500 Kilograms so the momentum would be:
80 X 500 = 40000 Neuton Meters.
So any object traveling at any speed has some energy. (I know your wondering what this has to do with gravity)
Ok..now lets focus on planet earth..the whole planet floating in space. The earth's mass 5.98e24 Kilograms. A extremely large mass floating in space. But what is space?? Is it just empty..or is there more to it?? Gravity is described as a force which pulls objects together...basically if you drop a basketball, the ball will fall towards the earth but the earth will pull up towards the basketball (in a very small amount), but it still happens.
Now that you got energy and mass all figured out, how does it effect gravity? The key is in light. We all heard of light bending. Light only bends if there is another medium for it to pass through. For example: Air and Water.
Light bends because it passes through a less dense medium to a more dense medium (or vise versa) in which case that's air to water. Light also bends through gravity. People often believed that it was the force of gravity that bends the light towards a black hole or a planet or something. I think that's false. Light itself cannot be bent by any force, because it has no mass. Force only applies to mass and because light has no mass, it can't bend towards any force.
My Theory implies that light bends because it passes through another medium, not because of the force of gravity. The earth's mass is huge and so is it's Energy that is proved by the formula E=MC2, which means that the mass or energy that the earth has is distorting the space around it, creating another sort of medium that bends light when it passes through it. The question is, what kind of medium is this? It's different from normal space because light does not bend in space that is not effected by gravity. So Light has to be passing through something more dense (or less dense) then space itself.
So to end this all off...Mass or Energy from the planet or whatever, is creating a sort of another medium for light to pass through, therefore light bends. So gravity can be described as another medium and a force as opposed to just a force.
Just a thought
Now think of a car moving down a road a lets say 80 KPH. You can find the cars energy by finding the car's momentum by:
Momentum = Mass X Velocity.
Lets say the car has a mass of 500 Kilograms so the momentum would be:
80 X 500 = 40000 Neuton Meters.
So any object traveling at any speed has some energy. (I know your wondering what this has to do with gravity)
Ok..now lets focus on planet earth..the whole planet floating in space. The earth's mass 5.98e24 Kilograms. A extremely large mass floating in space. But what is space?? Is it just empty..or is there more to it?? Gravity is described as a force which pulls objects together...basically if you drop a basketball, the ball will fall towards the earth but the earth will pull up towards the basketball (in a very small amount), but it still happens.
Now that you got energy and mass all figured out, how does it effect gravity? The key is in light. We all heard of light bending. Light only bends if there is another medium for it to pass through. For example: Air and Water.
Light bends because it passes through a less dense medium to a more dense medium (or vise versa) in which case that's air to water. Light also bends through gravity. People often believed that it was the force of gravity that bends the light towards a black hole or a planet or something. I think that's false. Light itself cannot be bent by any force, because it has no mass. Force only applies to mass and because light has no mass, it can't bend towards any force.
My Theory implies that light bends because it passes through another medium, not because of the force of gravity. The earth's mass is huge and so is it's Energy that is proved by the formula E=MC2, which means that the mass or energy that the earth has is distorting the space around it, creating another sort of medium that bends light when it passes through it. The question is, what kind of medium is this? It's different from normal space because light does not bend in space that is not effected by gravity. So Light has to be passing through something more dense (or less dense) then space itself.
So to end this all off...Mass or Energy from the planet or whatever, is creating a sort of another medium for light to pass through, therefore light bends. So gravity can be described as another medium and a force as opposed to just a force.
Just a thought
