INTRODUCTION       This hypothesis provides a general model for the mechanics of gravitation. It in no way refutes the observed behavior of gravitation, but merely seeks to explain it. I have based all but a single aspect of this model on established scientific knowledge, and that single aspect is my prediction of an unknown. (So it remains to be proved or disproved.)

ANALOGIES (not meant to be unkind)
	The team of medieval physicists stepped out of the time machine and began to examine the strange, new device fastened to the window. They had never before seen a suction cup, so with great enthusiasm, they began to experiment by pulling this mysterious device off the window, then reattaching it.       "The glass must attract the device" remarked one of them. They all nodded in agreement.       Next, they found a smaller piece of glass and discovered that the suction cup had the gripping power to suspend it. This new revelation prompted another physicist to remark, "The device must also attract the glass!" Having no real reason to seek a better explanation than this for their observations, the team of medieval physicists unanimously concurred, and a new theory was born: "The device and the glass are attracted one to another, this being a characteristic of space!"       My comparison to medieval science is not an insult to physicists. I merely wish to emphasize mankind's present level of ignorance of the mechanics of our universe. We now know that the suction cup in this example is held to the glass by air pressure. The invisible molecules that make up air constantly bombard the surfaces of the glass and the suction cup. The difference in pressure cause, what appears to be, an attraction. My gravitational hypothesis is somewhat similar. All I ask of you, the reader, is to keep an open, yet discerning mind.

THE PHYSICS       In 1933, a physicist named Wolfgang Pauli faced a problem. Energy and momentum was somehow becoming lost and accepted laws of physics appeared to be broken. One of the items missing was the linear momentum that beta-decay should have produced. The law associated with it is called the Law of Conservation of Momentum. This law states that momentum can neither be created nor destroyed, but during beta-decay, linear momentum had appeared to simply vanish.       Pauli predicted the existence of a tiny particle which he attributed with having run off with, among other things, the missing linear momentum. The particle was later named the neutrino, Italian for little neutral one. Although well accepted by physicists by the 1950s, it was not until 1956 that the neutrino was first detected by American physicists Frederick Reines and Clyde Lorrain Cowan, Jr. Detecting these things is not easy because matter is virtually transparent to neutrinos. Moving very quickly, they continually pass through our planet, seldom striking matter. This is possible because matter is mostly space, and neutrinos are much smaller than even electrons.       This is the only portion of this hypothesis that is not an accepted "fact" of conventional physics: I attribute neutrinos with delivering to matter the linear momentum they have stolen from nuclear fission and nuclear fusion, in the form of gravity. (The popular belief is that neutrinos pass through matter without affecting it.)       The subsequent three figures will show you how it happens. Please bear in mind that all the figures represent three-dimensional space. Neutrinos perpetually flow in all directions. For ease of comprehension, each of these first two figures depict neutrino flow in a single direction only. Figure 3 ties it all together.

Figure 1

Figure 2

In Figures 1-3, green arrows represent unblocked neutrino flow from space, and red arrows represent neutrino flow that is partially blocked, having recently passed through matter.       In Figure 1, the planet has blocked some of the neutrinos from the moon. Although most of the neutrinos have passed straight through, the planet has blocked some that would have made it to the moon, had the planet not been there. The deficit caused by the neutrinos that did not make it through the planet create a diminished repulsion on the side of the moon that faces the planet.       In Figure 2, the moon has blocked some of the neutrinos from the planet. The deficit caused by the neutrinos that did not make it through the moon create a diminished repulsion on the side of the planet that faces the moon.

Figure 3

In Figure 3, each arrow represents neutrino flow in one of twelve arbitrary directions. (Remember that the actual neutrino flow is omnidirectional.) For almost every direction of neutrino bombardment, the effect, or "pressure," is canceled by an equal and opposite bombardment of neutrinos impacting the moon on the opposite side.       The only direction of neutrino bombardment that is not completely counterbalanced (in this illustration) is downward, toward the planet. The reason is that neutrinos which exert pressure in the opposite direction are not equal in their force. Before they impact the moon, they must pass through the planet, and not all of them make it all the way through. Being fewer in number, they exert less "pressure" on the moon, but only in a single direction: up.       Although red arrows represent a smaller number of neutrinos than the green arrows, the number is actually only slightly smaller. The vast majority of neutrinos pass right through "normal" matter, such as the earth.

If this model is accurate, gravitation is actually less repulsion in a particular direction. It would seem that like the suction cup on the window, the appearance is an illusion. (Please click here to check out the next portion of my hypothesis.) HERE'S THE REST OF THE HYPOTHESIS ON SEPARATE SUB-PAGES . . . . An explanation of gravity waves, bending light, black holes, etc. Why Newtonian gravity doesn't pull, it just sucks. More about neutrinos and the universe. Implications of neutrino gravity. Who is this guy? Bibliography

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