RETURN to Book 02 - Chapter 11 - Attraction and Repulsion
"Every particle of matter in the universe is attracted to every other particle of matter in the universe."
"Every body attracts every other body with a force that varies directly as the product of their masses and inversely as the square of the distance between them."
No more fundamental principles have been written than these two Newtonian laws and no laws have been more universally accepted.
Concerning Newton's laws of gravitation, it is stated that they are "the broadest and most fundamental which nature makes known to us." If it can be shown that the substance which we call matter has no power to attract, but that it is motion only which attracts, and if it can also be shown that the apparent ability of substance to attract through motion is equally true of its apparent ability to repel through motion, then the first of these laws is inaccurate and should be rewritten.
Let us see whether the above law would not be more in keeping with the laws of motion if it were rewritten thus:
Every mass has the relative apparent ability to attract and, to repel every other mass, its relative ability depending on its relative potential.
Let us now consider the varying power of mass to attract other mass according to the distance one is from the other.
If the second law is true, two equal masses of two different substances must attract each other equally from equal distances.
If it can be shown that different masses do not attract each other equally, but on the contrary, that there is a great range in the variability of the power of different masses to attract each other, then the law cannot be true.
If it can also be shown that the apparent ability of mass to attract and also to repel increases and decreases in orderly ratios as volume, density, pressures, time, temperature, and other dimensions increase and decrease, then dimensions, other than mass and distance, should be considered in the writing of the law.
If it can be shown that the apparent power of attraction is applicable to all forming mass which is heading in the outward journey from the plane of concept to the point of north and that the apparent power of repulsion is applicable to all dissolving mass which is returning to the inertial plane of concept, then the second of these laws is inaccurate and should be rewritten.
Let us see whether this law would not also be more in keeping with the laws of motion if it were rewritten thus:
Every body attracts and rebels every other body with a force which increases and decreases in the universal ratios in accordance with its potential position and according to whether the direction of the mass is toward the north or toward the south.
This chapter will consider whether the attributes which we call attraction and repulsion belong to substance, and the succeeding chapters will consider what relation dimension has to the apparent ability of mass to attract.
It is generally assumed that the substance of matter attracts and that some other force repels.
What it is that repels is not quite so certain, but the generally accepted theory is that it is light.
Light is supposed to be something else than that of which solid cold matter is composed.
Light is supposed to repel.
It does. But it also attracts just as all substance attracts and also repels.
The word "apparently" must be understood to be used as qualifying the above and all
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