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QuantumT

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I just had an idea. What if gravity is two forces instead of one?

The primary force: An incompatibility between spacetime and matter. Spacetime repelling matter.

The secondary force: Matter attracting matter. Being the same it wants to unite. (Surrounded by repelling spacetime.)

It's a bit like water and oil.

Stupid?

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34 minutes ago, QuantumT said:

I just had an idea. What if gravity is two forces instead of one?

The primary force: An incompatibility between spacetime and matter. Spacetime repelling matter.

The secondary force: Matter attracting matter. Being the same it wants to unite. (Surrounded by repelling spacetime.)

It's a bit like water and oil.

Stupid?

A little bit wrong. Space-time repels both matter and itself. Matter attracts both matter and space-time, or holds space-time around it. In other words, the mass of matter is positive, and space-time mass is negative.

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14 minutes ago, SergUpstart said:

A little bit wrong. Space-time repels both matter and itself. Matter attracts both matter and space-time, or holds space-time around it. In other words, the mass of matter is positive, and space-time mass is negative.

That sounds even more stupid than my idea. Sorry pal. Please let the pro's give their opinion.

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Sounds almost like GR ...

Einstein incorporated two mechanisms into his theory; at the time, he thought mistakenly.
One part is a geometric field, which manifests as space-time curvature, and is responsible for test masses following curved geodesics such that masses seem to 'attract' each other. This is a simplification that ignores many other effects.
The other part, he 'tacked on' as the Cosmological Constant, and it may be responsible for increasing separation between galaxies/clusters and universal expansion. As we are not quite sure, it is commonly known as Dark Energy.

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9 hours ago, QuantumT said:

What if gravity is two forces instead of one?

It is not possible to capture all the necessary degrees of freedom for gravity using vectors fields - irrespective of whether there is just one vector field (=Newtonian gravity), or several. For fundamental reasons, you need at least a rank-2 tensor field - not least because the source term is itself a rank-2 tensor field.

To put it simply - gravity is not a force.

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