In the first iteration of the gravity paper, I expressed some skepticism of the concept of length contraction. It seemed like such an ad hoc, shoehorned addition to relativity, that it appeared lazy and desperate. The justification for the concept makes perfect sense, at least from the perspective of the non-aether crowd, but I wasn’t sold on it. On taking a closer look at my own theory, I began to see support for (a modified version of) it, as well as a mechanical explanation for it.
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Gravity Paper: the Good Parts
I’ve read enough fringe material on the internet to know the similarities between most of the well-meaning but usually worthless crap out there and my own theory of gravity. It’s about thirty pages of fanciful speculation, twenty-six illustrations, and almost no math. The passerby audience for that is very select, and I doubt it includes any trained physicists. They have reputations to uphold, and chalkboards to weaponize.
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