Abstract
The article discusses the limitations of traditional gravitational models, suggesting that gravitational fields may exhibit a spiral vortex pattern rather than a radial symmetry. Measurable gravitational anomalies at the surface of the Earth and the Moon correlate with physical features, and gravitational effects therefore propagate through space with a time delay. This has implications for planetary orbits and inertia.
Introduction
Most models of gravity are that of a simple radial field which is symmetric and emanates from the centre of gravity of the Earth. This contradicts the observations, however, which suggest that the field has some sort of spiral component resembling a spherical field vortex with our planet at the centre.
Lunar flux ropes and Earth anomalies
Gravitational anomalies are measurable above the surface of both the Earth and the moon.
In the case of the moon, such anomalies coincide with the physical craters (below) and extend to above the surface of the moon where they can be measured by satellites: Magnetic flux ropes
In the case of the Earth, we can see that, again, the gravitational anomalies coincide with the physical features of the Earth itself.
The gravitational field rotates with the Earth
Now since these anomalies coincide with the features that seem to create them, it must be the case that some aspect of the gravitational field is rotating at the same rate as the Earth or moon. This seems incontrovertible.
Consideration of the distant rotation rate
Consider now what happens at great distances from the Earth. The gravitational force itself is weakened but still theoretically present; so what of the anomalies? Do they still rotate with the Earth at 24 hours each day and are the visible anomalies still in synch with the geographical features?
Moreover, we read that the Earth’s rotational speed varies on an almost daily basis [NASA] and so can ask if this information is broadcast instantaneously to all parts of the universe or if there is some time delay.
Most scientists would agree that such instantaneous transfer of information does not exist and that such changes will somehow propagate outwards at a finite speed.
The field forms a spiral
There is therefore a time delay between gravitational events at the Earth’s surface and their appearance at distant parts of the cosmos.
The gravitational field around any spinning object therefore forms a spiral and each planet or star is at the centre of a gravitational field vortex.
Importance
The gravitational field of the Earth is the main substrate for the movement of all matter and the propagation of all waves at the surface of the Earth.
In practice this means that the field is the source of all inertia for objects with mass and forms an influential medium for the propagation of light.
The field is dragged around in synchrony with the planet and so forms a ‘stationary’ frame of reference for measuring the speed of light or acceleration of objects.
All earthly laboratories are within this frame of reference and are therefore unlikely to show any local effects owing to the spin of the Earth; it will not be possible to measure the spin using the speed of light or the swing of a pendulum.
The results of the Michelson-Morley experiment are no longer a surprise if we think of light as propagating through such a field since the field now moves with the laboratory and hence the light is moving through a substrate which is stationary with respect to the experimental set up.
A Foucault pendulum shows inconsistent results because of problems with the pivot mechanism, but is in any case, swinging within an inertial field which is stationary with respect to the Earth.
The orbits of the planets and moons
The planets and their moons are no longer moving within the simple radial field of the sun but within a system of complex vortex fields from all of the planets and such a field will obey the laws of vortex physics.
Orbits are now predicted to have orbits which are only approximately elliptical and to display anomalies arising from the vortex nature of the field.
The perihelion precession of Mercury
The rotating of the sun’s gravitational field will be greatest nearer to the sun and likely affect the planets nearer to the sun more than all the others. All planets demonstrate perihelion precession but this is most pronounced with the planet Mercury.