Experiment to Detect Directional Gravity

Andrew Johnson recently published a new book. It’s about Earth and the possibility that it might be hollow. It’s a good read, freely available as a PDF on his site. Among other things, he discusses the impact that a hollow Earth would have on gravity.

My suspicions about gravity

I get a mention in Johnson’s book due to my work on this subject.

For reasons laid out in Universe of Particles, I suspect that charged matter exert a stronger gravitational pull than neutral matter. This in turn affects our planet, because Earth is a giant fully charged capacitor.

From this, we get directionality because capacitors have directionality. They have two sides, one positive and the other negative.

Gravity will act more strongly in the perpendicular than the vertical inside our planet, and this directionality will extend into space.

A setup to measure directional gravity

We don’t need to dig a deep hole to validate or refute this. Nor do we need a big capacitor in a laboratory. All we need is an aircraft capable of smooth flight, a sensitive scale and a good altitude meter.

Using this simple setup, we can take measurements at different altitudes.

Newton’s assumption

If gravity is a directionless monopole as Newton suggested, we’ll get no deviations from his predictions. However, if there’s directionality, our readings will drop off quicker with altitude than he predicted.

The center of gravity will appear to drift when checked against Newton’s theory, as illustrated below.

Observer A will see the center of gravity at a, observer B will see it at b and observer C will see it at c. The observers at high altitudes will see the center of gravity closer to the geometrical center than observers closer to the surface.

This is because Newton’s theory is predicated on a directionless model.

Implications of directional gravity

If gravity does in fact drop off quicker with altitude than Newton predicted, we can conclude that there’s a directional component to it.

This would in turn support all theories that incorporate directionality. Our capacitance model, Peter Woodhead’s suggested solution, and the dipole model promoted by Wal Thornhill would all gain support.

We can then use any of these theories to explain the Mercury anomaly. Because they all share a common implication. Namely that orbits close to gravitational bodies will be faster than predicted by Newton.

We would no longer need Einstein’s curved space-time. Nor, for that matter, would we need the faster clocks that I’ve suggested.

Conclusion

The simple experiment proposed in this post would settle the issue of directional gravity once and for all.

However, to the best of my knowledge, there hasn’t been any airborne experiments with the express purpose of verifying Newton’s predictions. We still assume that Newton was right about near surface gravity because he was right about high altitude orbits.