What Ouamuamua Tells Us About Quantum Gravity

Relating my own interpretation of quantum gravity and elaborating on some of the precedents for my idea, before sweeping into a discussion on Ouamuamua, dark energy and dark matter. Enjoy!
#physics #astronomy #astrophysics #darkmatter #darkenergy #gravity #cosmology

[@_xBrokenxDreamsx_]

gravity particles are forcing me down.

[@user-kz3hp3ho9t]

There are very many problems with this, not least of which that your model is not mathematically defined.
Firstly, Ouamuamua is an anomaly. If objects generally decelerated upon approach to a body to which it is gravitationally attracted then Kepler's law would not have been corroborated in the innumerable observations of satellites traversing elliptical orbits. And yet, if you are proposing to explain Ouamuamua's deceleration by a modified theory of gravity, then the modifications would apply in the general case, and we would not observe Kepler's law holding good (in its domain of validity) in all other cases. Appealing to some form of "resistance" seems to imply that in general free falling objects would undergo deceleration, which clearly they do not; if this is not so, then your proposed explanation of Ouamuamua's trajectory is even more obscure.
When an extremely well-corroborated law appears to be falsified in very specific instances, it rarely indicates new physics. Usually, it just means that the known laws of physics are not being completely applied, or some particular circumstance needs to be included in the modelling. For example, Uranus' deviations from the orbit predicted by Newton's laws given the known planets at the time allowed Le Verrier to accurately predict the existence, mass, and position of Neptune: Le Verrier did not take the anomaly as falsification of Newton's otherwise well-corroborated laws, but as a sign that the model of the solar system to which they were being applied was incomplete. Similarly, in this case Ouamuamua's anomalous trajectory could be explained if we include the forces created by outgassing and solar radiation pressure, which would act to counter gravitational acceleration.
The idea of gravitons is very mainstream; in the low energy approximation, spin-2 gravitons would reproduce Einstein's tensor-field equations exactly. But Le Sage's model cannot reproduce relativistic effects of GR - in fact, it strictly violates the equivalence principle because of 'gravitational shading', Lorentz invariance because of 'abberation', and it does not account for gravitation interacting with mass-energy rather than just mass density. There is a phenomenon of 'drag', although it is not clear that it would predict what you say (and it requires the force carrying particle to travel faster than c).
In any case, Le Sage's model is very different from the sort of thing you seem to be proposing. You are right that electrons interact with light - this would make a cloud of them surrounding massive objects radiate massively! We don't see this. Therefore, you either have to also rewrite all of electrodynamics to account for this, or the idea is manifestly wrong. The electrons would also repel each other! Far from explaining gravity, you would require (contrary to observation) some gravity-like force much stronger than electromagnetism to overcome this repulsion (which would also make this redundant as a theory of gravitation). Also, bodies which accumulated negative charges would repel each other, not attract! And even if some bodies had positive and others negative charge, so that the idea is somehow to treat gravitation as an instance of Coulomb's law, you do not get gravitational behaviour! In fact, the usual phenomena of electromagnetism, in that case, would come into effect, so that you would get complicated magnetic interactions which would behave very ungravitationally.

[@randomfarmer]

Kepler's laws apply to planetary motions, i.e. to objects that are already in orbit around the Sun. This is why we see all the comets in our own solar system speeding up during their approach to the Sun. The case of Ouamuamua is interesting and unique since it considers a body coming from outside the solar system with excess momentum that hasn't yet been brought into an equilibrium between the attractive and repulsive elements of gravity. Most of what we see, of course, orbits the Sun according to Kepler's laws, and Ouamuamua would be no different if it stayed around long enough. Ouamuamua was moving too quickly to remain in orbit around the Sun and hence Kepler's laws apply only in a limited sense. I also mentioned that, during its slingshot around the Sun, it would have accelerated. I don't plan on taking Ouamuamua as falsification of Kepler's laws; why are you proposing that I would? I'm proposing new physics, sure, but nothing I think that undermines the work of Kepler, Newton, etc. I think you're thinking I'm saying something very wild here when really I'm not. Another thing, in the model that I'm proposing, solar radiation pressure would be exactly equivalent to the effects of gravitational electrons since, as we know, electrons repel one another via the exchange of photons. The two processes would be exactly equivalent to one another.

[@randomfarmer]

"this would make a cloud of them surrounding massive objects radiate massively!" have you seen an image of a black hole recently? The hypothesis of an electron cloud seems very obvious as an explanation for what we see around black hole event horizons. You can now look up images of black holes, and it seems to me as though there is clearly a cloud of something there trapping a huge amount of radiation. Electrons, again, are the obvious candidates for this since their prevalence is proportional to the mass of an object, and they can reflect particles of light. Black holes do radiate massively. The latest physics coming out of research into causal dynamical triangulations predicts that all objects radiate Hawking radiation, something I predicted a few years ago. Hence, the Earth would have its own electron cloud releasing photons back into space (the electrons tunnel constantly from different parts of the universe to thereafter deposit photons into the electron cloud); in Earth's case this effect isn't so obvious, but in the case of black holes it's starkly obvious.