A Rational Cosmology: The Non-Existence of Gravitrons or Other "Force Particles"

Essay LXII

This is Essay LXII of Mr. Stolyarov's series, "A Rational Cosmology," which seeks to present objective, absolute, rationally grounded views of terms such as universe, matter, volume, space, time, motion, sound, light, forces, fields, and even the higher-order concepts of life, consciousness, and volition. See the index of all the essays in "A Rational Cosmology" here.

One further fallacy about fields that deserves to be addressed here is the idea that non-contact forces (and thus the field models which apply to them) can be explained by the presence of special types of "particles" which are responsible for the motion of entities in a force field.

Apparently, some physicists have rejected the very possibility of non-contact forces and have instead tried to explain this phenomenon by inventing entities, such as "gravitrons," that make direct contact with the entities they are supposed to exert forces on, and thereby result in acceleration.

Cosmologically, this cannot be, as such entities would need to be massless (especially in the case of "gravitrons," which would otherwise themselves be quite significantly affected by the force of gravity), and mass is a ubiquitous quality of entities.

Additionally, an entity without mass cannot exert a force, since by Newton's Second Law, a force can only exist where both a mass and an acceleration exist. Furthermore, this notion ignores the far better verified Classical idea of action-reaction pairs.