Newton’s mistake
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Newton’s mistake
Newton disregarded an idea from Fatio explaining gravity by a particle model. Ether particles were assumed to collide with matter and cause thermal energy. The solution is to assume ether particles to be absorbed by matter and cause radiant energy. (Like the production of X-rays by absorption of electrons) In this way we can explain gravity in body A by those particles that are absent in A due to the absorption in B.
A and B are in different positions without information about each other. So, they cannot together define the product AxB. No attraction is therefore possible. The ether has the needed information and can therefore push A and B together. So, gravity in A is caused by those particles that are absent in A due to the absorption in B.
- A cannot attract B.
- A can attract the ether and then the ether can push B in direction towards A.
- We need the ether.
Newton did not understand his own model.