Physics at large assumes that all matter, even at the subatomic level, interacts gravitationally. Prevailing theory is that even though two lone protons have an incredibly strong electrostatic repulsion, they also at the same time have an incredibly weak gravitational attraction. Whether this has been experimentally verified with certainty or is just taken for granted, I don’t know. It kind of makes me wonder: how much about particle interaction has been taken for granted?

My gravity paper describes interactions between particles as symptoms of their interaction with the aether. The type of particle they are determines how they affect the aether, which in turn, determines how it appears they are interacting with each other. From this point of view, they are really just interacting with the aether while in each others’ vicinity. The aether then creates observable changes in their behavior which we see and describe (incorrectly, I propose) as attraction or repulsion.

In table Interaction Matrix, the diagonal light grey row from top left to bottom right lists each of six particles or types of atoms, along with how one of those items would interact with another one of itself, in parentheses. The cells below and to the left of that diagonal tell how different items in that diagonal interact with each other, according to where the row and column for each cell intersect with the grey diagonal. It is only meant to elucidate in more detail the point being made in the paper, which is that gravity is the attraction of a group of one or more atoms to another group of one or more atoms. The attraction of any other combinations of particles is a different mechanism, with different math. Most of it should be self-explanatory, but here are some notes for some of the less obvious parts.

C3- The self interaction of a neutron is not given here. That’s not to say that I think they aren’t attracted to each other, I’m willing to speculate that they are. I offer that if they do behave as if attracted to each other, the mechanism creating the locomotion towards one another is not the same mechanism as that for two atoms. I have my doubts that it has been conclusively proven that lone neutrons are mutually attracted, much less whether the force of that attraction is equivalent to that of atoms.

C4 (C5, C6)- I’m assuming neutrons fall, or more precisely, that that has been specifically tested and seen to be the case. I vaguely recall reading about an experiment trying to prove something about quantum gravity by observing how cold neutrons fall. I’m calling the interaction between neutrons and atoms “pseudo-gravitational” because while neutrons may indeed fall to the Earth (a big collection of atoms), the actual cause is probably not identical in nature to the falling of atoms to the Earth.

A4, B4- The proton is presumed to experience a minor attraction to an atom, while an electron is presumed to experience a minor repulsion. These assumptions are based on the negatively charged electrons surrounding the atom’s nucleus, thus closer to an approaching external body than the positively charged nucleus.

A3- While much is known about the strong force and gluons and fission and fusion, I propose that not all has been brought to light just yet. If the aether plays the part in particle interactions that I suggest it does (in this case, protons with protons), then the neutron could be nullifying the repulsion the aether would otherwise induce between two or more protons. If that is the case, there could be a breakthrough in understanding to be realized. If that breakthrough is large enough, we could find ourselves able to transmute elements at will.