NeoGravity

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Everything needed to write about this accurately, including what the work does not claim.

The claim in one paragraph

Space is not empty: it contains a measurable fluid. Matter continuously radiates into the Plenum, and by Newton's third law the Plenum pushes back. That inward reaction is proposed as gravitation, and it is written in one line: the gravitational acceleration at a point is the logarithmic gradient of the Plenum's density there, times a third of the speed of light squared. There is no mass in that expression, no separation, and no gravitational constant. Because the Plenum is compressed near mass, light passing nearby slows and bends, the same process that makes a straw look bent in water. One expression for the Plenum's refractive index reproduces light deflection and the Shapiro time delay. A second expression, for the rate at which clocks run, reproduces the gravitational redshift, and the two together give Mercury's perihelion advance. That two are needed where one was wanted is forced by the measurements rather than assumed, and it is the framework's own structural result.

NeoGravity Explained. Twenty-one reels in five sections, 7 minutes 39 seconds, narrated and captioned. MP4 · Captions · Both video blogs

What this is not

Getting these right matters more than the headline.

NOT

A claim that Einstein was wrong

General relativity's confirmed predictions are reproduced, not contested. The proposal is about cause and vocabulary, not about whether the predictions hold.

NOT

A revival of the nineteenth-century aether

That medium required a detectable rest frame and was correctly refuted in 1887. The Plenum proposed here has none, by construction.

NOT

Peer reviewed

These are preprints. They are open access with permanent DOIs, and they have not been through journal review.

NOT

Complete

One constant remains fitted rather than derived. Its first reading of the pulsar-timing signal, a scalar one, is disfavoured by the data and has been replaced by the tensor wave sector the framework later derived, and the papers say so in print.

Facts and figures

40papers in the series, all deposited
4failed derivations published
1998year the idea originated
42.98″Mercury per century, derived; 42.98 ± 0.04 observed
The angle most writers miss. This series publishes its own failures. Four attempts to derive the coupling strength are written up in full, including one killed by observational data. The verification suite prints deliberate failure markers. That is unusual enough to be the story.

Reels and video

23 short animations, each with a still and a file to download. They run from 24 to 40 seconds, carry their own captions and have no sound. Play them on the reels page and on Sixteen pictures, retold.

The long reels

Still from the reel: The solar system in the Ether Plenum

The solar system in the Ether Plenum

40 seconds

Still from the reel: Earth and Moon, the full spectrum

Earth and Moon, the full spectrum

30 seconds

Still from the reel: Earth and Moon, the undertow

Earth and Moon, the undertow

26 seconds

The current: spinning photons and neutrinos, in four parts

Still from the reel: A current of spinning light

A current of spinning light

24 seconds

Still from the reel: The neutrinos turn one way

The neutrinos turn one way

24 seconds

Still from the reel: The screw and the two boards

The screw and the two boards

24 seconds

Still from the reel: Carried toward the source

Carried toward the source

24 seconds

Sixteen pictures, retold

Each opens on a familiar physics graphic, redrawn, then gives the NeoGravity account, its formula, and the test it has passed or still owes.

Still from the reel: The fabric that is not there

The fabric that is not there

Reel 01 · retells: general relativity’s rubber sheet

Still from the reel: Compressed, not rarefied

Compressed, not rarefied

Reel 02 · retells: sound: compression and rarefaction

Still from the reel: Light bends because it slows

Light bends because it slows

Reel 03 · retells: diffraction at a slit

Still from the reel: Two kinds of gravitational wave

Two kinds of gravitational wave

Reel 04 · retells: ripples in space-time

Still from the reel: Black holes without horizons

Black holes without horizons

Reel 05 · retells: anatomy of a black hole

Still from the reel: The dark circle

The dark circle

Reel 06 · retells: the black hole’s shadow

Still from the reel: Expansion as a density drift

Expansion as a density drift

Reel 07 · retells: the geometry of the universe

Still from the reel: Newton, exactly

Newton, exactly

Reel 08 · retells: the solar system

Still from the reel: What fills space, and what it weighs

What fills space, and what it weighs

Reel 09 · retells: forms of radiation

Still from the reel: Momentum without mass

Momentum without mass

Reel 10 · retells: the formulas of quantum physics

Still from the reel: Spinning masses stir the Plenum

Spinning masses stir the Plenum

Reel 11 · retells: a planet’s magnetic tail

Still from the reel: Light as a screw

Light as a screw

Reel 12 · retells: the frame of a helix

Still from the reel: The twist that was measured

The twist that was measured

Reel 13 · retells: curvature and torsion

Still from the reel: The Plenum as an atmosphere

The Plenum as an atmosphere

Reel 14 · retells: the laws of thermodynamics

Still from the reel: What the Plenum sets in an atom

What the Plenum sets in an atom

Reel 15 · retells: atomic structure

Still from the reel: Matter waves fall like stones

Matter waves fall like stones

Reel 16 · retells: the qubit

Using this material

Figures. Every figure across the series is original and generated from the underlying data. They may be reproduced with attribution. Source code: https://github.com/worldlibrary-hub/NeoGravity

Reels. Every reel and still is original to the series; none reproduces anyone else’s graphic. Sizes and distances in them are not to scale. To reuse one, please write first.

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