Gravity, an Idea of Motion

If space were quantized into tiny grains, could gravity emerge from the shape of those grains and their interaction with the non-spacial background between them?

Part One . . . the set-up

Consider for just the next few minutes that space comes in tiny grains which make up the volume of our universe. The grains consist of particle properties, though, while each grain¹ has a “real,” or measured volume, its remaining properties (charge, spin, mass, magnetism, etc) are completely unmeasured. Without measured value, these properties can only exist as ideas² and, if space is in fact quantized in this manner, it might explain why the grains would be so hard to find; without measured properties, there’s nothing to measure . . . nothing to detect.

Along with the grains, space includes a few discrete particles of matter and energy. These are the remnants of collapsed grains whose unmeasured properties have received measured value and make up every thing we know.

But between the grains is the important part, for here lies a background from which they have emerged.³ It is, of course, an immaterial background which can be neither spacial nor temporal, for if it were either of these things, it would be both of these things and already exist in grains of space. We can know that our immaterial background is actually there, or “real” because—whether it be grains of rice or grains of quantized space—grains of anything require an enveloping field made of something which is not the thing it hosts. In short, the background of a quantized space must truly exist, and it must exist non-spatially; an immaterial reality.

And here’s the thing, ideas are immaterial as well. And, as you would know more than anyone, they are also quite real. So for just the next few minutes, consider our immaterial background to be a suitable “place,” as it were, for ideas. Because an idea, any idea, is always an awareness of something, we can consider our background of ideas to, itself, possess a property of awareness; an abstract background. As you digest this notion, imagine how a material object placed within an abstract background would necessarily generate an idea of its presence; that its presence would be noticed.

Each of the grains which make up our quantized space is, of course, contained by a perimeter, or border which limits its volume. Like a property line between neighbors, the grain’s border forms an elision with the borders of its neighbors, and it is the network of these borders which, taken together, form the abstract background.⁴ In this way, the entirety of space-time is something like a froth of soap bubbles. In our sudsy metaphor, the bubbles represent the discrete volumes of the grains while the bubbly network of impossibly thin walls represent the abstract background which contain their unmeasured properties.

All particles undergo activity, or changes of state in each moment. For this reason, the activity of every particle, or coherent thing made of particles,⁵ would necessarily generate an inevitable idea of that thing in the background because, again, the object is evolving within a background which is abstract. The idea of the object, whether it be a particle, a protein, a brain, a body, an exaltation of larks, or the Milky Way galaxy is a nested description of the coherent object’s constituents in terms of its measured property values; a vibrational idea, if you will, of the object’s activity, or changing property values from moment to moment.⁶ Likewise, the vibrational idea of the object’s property values is updated by the object’s activity, or “vibration” of which the vibrational idea is aware, or “notices,” as it were, in each evolutionary moment.

For example, the vibrational idea of an electron contains all of the information regarding the properties of the electron such as charge, spin, mass, and magnetism with their specific measured values, and the blending of this idea, this abstraction, with the grain’s abstract properties will set the unmeasured property values of the grain to the discrete, measured values of the electron’s idea, at which point the grain can no longer maintain its abstract nature and collapses down to that particular electron. The vibrational idea becomes updated as it notices the changed values of its object.

Conditioned Space: The vibrational idea (Vi) of the particle in the above diagram collapses a grain of potential space-time, creating an otherwise vacuum around the newly-emergent particle (2). Surrounding grains are elongated into this vacuum (3). The elongation becomes one of the grain’s abstract properties. Vibrational ideas collapsing an elongated grain will emerge as a discrete particle in motion.

Part Two . . . gravity

In spite of all this, the important thing regarding gravity is simply that the grains are always larger than the particles to which they collapse in somewhat the way that a volume of water vapor condenses down to a smaller droplet.⁷ This is important because it means that a collapsed grain leaves an inevitable void in its place around the smaller, newly-emerged particle. The void is, of course, a perfect vacuum within the non-spacial background which tugs, as only it can, upon the surrounding grains, thereby elongating these grains inward toward the particle as a kind of “conditioned space.” As the voided area becomes filled with elongated grains, outlying grains are pulled in, becoming less elongated with distance from the emergent particle.⁸ On a larger scale, all objects are surrounded by regions of conditioned space whose grains have become elongated in this manner simply because all material objects have been collapsed down from grains of potential space-time.

The diagram shows a time lapse of 19 locations in the evolutionary path of a matter particle, and 8 locations in the path of an energy particle. While the matter particle may emerge in each location for trillions of moments or longer, the path of the energy particle comprises 8 grains in 8 successive moments at the speed of light. (1 moment =10⁻⁴⁴/sec, 1 grain = 10⁻³⁵/mtr)

An elongated change in the grain’s volumetric shape from one moment to the next is a real, discrete motion in the direction of the elongation, and the inevitable idea which is created within the abstract background by that motion becomes yet another of the grain’s abstract properties. In the simplest circumstance, a particle which has been collapsed down from an elongated grain will, of course, express the grain’s measured property of motion and evolve (move) as only it can in the direction of the elongation toward the previously-emerged particle! That is, the conditioning of quantized space through the elongation of its grains would describe the thing we call gravity.⁹ For example, the evolution of photons passing near a star will be affected as they collapse grains which have been elongated to various degrees such that the pathway of light will actually bend inward toward the star. Likewise, the pathway of a material object passing through a region of conditioned space will be similarly influenced by the elongation of the grains it collapses.

Can we call this particular idea of quantized space Inter-Spacial Abstraction (ISA)? It may offer explanations for other phenomena, too.¹⁰

Notes

1. The smallest grain of potential space-time could measure approximately 10⁻¹⁵ /meter, just one quadrillionth of a meter. By comparison, the smallest theoretical unit of space is only 10⁻³⁵/meter, the “Planck” length!
2. If I say, “electric charge,” you think of a particular property of particles perfectly well even without a stated orientation of positive, negative, or neutral. This is possible because the property of charge also exists as . . . an idea.
3. The continual emergence of grains from the background may help to explain dark energy. (Pls. see the Medium article “Dark Matter: a shy unicorn?” for how grain size may affect dark matter.)
4. For the sake of clarity, the illustrations show considerable separation between the grains in order to accommodate call outs and arrow indicators. In actuality, of course, the abstract background formed by the elision of borders has no spacial thickness. Along with unmeasured properties, the background contains all vibrational and philosophical ideas including the laws of nature. (Pls. see the Medium article “Consciousness and Quantized Space” or the book, Between Space, for a fuller description of the abstract background, its mechanics, and the unique form of its ideas.)
5. For our purposes, coherent objects are those with a singular function like an atom, a molecule, or a protein; not your bicycle, a diamond ring, or an ice cream cone. The removal of particles from a coherent object would alter or damage its singular function.
6. The tiniest moment is the “Planck time” of about 10⁻⁴⁴/seconds; a trillion-trillion-trillion-billionths of a second. If space is quantized into tiny grains, then time must be quantized into tiny moments simply because space and time are always together, “space-time.” That is, a quantized space, its constituents and its objects, must evolve from one quantized moment to the next.
7. The collapse, therefore, is really more of a condensation and, in the same way that water cannot maintain its gaseous phase when condensed down to the liquid phase of a droplet, a grain cannot maintain the unmeasured properties of its abstract nature when condensed down to the measured properties of the discrete particle. It’s probably more complex than described here where, for the sake of simplicity, a single particle is shown to have collapsed down from a single grain. In fact, the smallest particle (about 10⁻¹⁶/mtr.) is so much larger than a Planck-sized grain of 10⁻³⁵/mtr. that it could be that trillions of grains forming a particle-sized region of space collapse down to the components of a single particle.
8. In accordance with the law of gravity, elongation should decrease inversely with the square of distance from an object.
9. In this way, the grain itself is a kind of graviton, and gravity and motion are the emergent properties of a conditioned space.
10. 1. The concept of a particle’s evolution by means of its vibrational idea (Vi) would explain entanglement where an object consisting of two spacially separated particles can evolve instantly by means of the vibrational idea which envelops them simply because the Vi is located “everywhere” throughout the abstract background. 2. Likewise, according to ISA, “superposition” is simply the ubiquity of ideas throughout an abstract background of s/t. 3. A stifled particle near the center of a black hole can no longer undergo changes of state. It must consequently go out of material existence. Its remaining vibrational idea then evolves at some other grain’s location in space-time. (For more on this, see the articles and book cited above.)