What the Ether Plenum Is Made Of: Requirements for Any Answer, Two Old Objections NeoGravity Resolved

The Theory of NeoGravity states a physical cause for gravitation. Space is not an empty void; it is filled, everywhere, by the Ether Plenum. Every body gives off radiation without pause — the Sun, the Earth, a stone in the hand — most of it invisible, across the whole spectrum from radio waves to gamma rays. That radiation carries momentum outward, into the Plenum. The Plenum returns it, inward, on the body that sent it out; Newton’s third law allows nothing else. That returned load is gravity, the Radiative Undertow. It is compressive, so the Plenum settles denser toward a mass, and a body falls by answering to the state of the Plenum where it is. Nothing acts across empty space. In this account the curvature of a four-dimensional spacetime metric describes the Plenum’s settled profile and does not cause it: Newton’s potential, Einstein’s metric and the gravitational field are three names for one state of the Ether Plenum under load.

A locksmith at a door he has never opened feels along the pins with a pick and says what the missing key is: this long, this many teeth, each cut to this depth. He is not guessing, because a lock is a set of requirements and a key is whatever meets them all at once. What the Ether Plenum is made of goes unnamed, and no model of its parts is proposed. According to the Theory of NeoGravity its mechanics has already fixed eleven requirements any answer must meet, from its stiffness against shear, which is derived, to four things not yet derived, among them whatever holds the thickening around a mass in place.

The two oldest objections to any aether account are answered on that footing. Maxwell showed in 1875 that a gravity of absorbed particles heats its targets catastrophically, and Darwin in 1905 that a stream trading energy with matter settles into balance and the force dies with it. Both were derived against a force that is drag. The Radiative Undertow is the press of a squeeze already at rest and uneven, and a body standing in it is pressed without being warmed. The answer holds on one condition: whatever maintains the thickening must not route a stream through matter, and that is not yet explained. The instruments that will tell the quanta of the Plenum from fundamental gravitons are already running, and a graviton received singly would end it.

Five statements say what the Ether Plenum is. They are set down before any result, in one place, so that nothing can be slipped in afterwards to rescue a number that comes out wrong; that is their purpose, and the reader is entitled to hold the theory to it.

The first two say nothing that is not already true of water, or of steel, or of air. The Plenum is neither created nor destroyed; and when it is pushed, it moves. Any physicist would grant those two of any material at all, and they cost the theory nothing. It is the three that follow that commit it. Squeeze the Plenum and it presses back, with exactly one third of the energy it holds; and that fraction is not chosen but forced, because whatever fills it has no mass. Twist it and it answers as a fluid does that remembers, for a moment, having been a solid: stiff against a quick disturbance, yielding to a slow one. And a body holds the Plenum about it denser than it is far away, by an amount fixed by the body’s mass; matter and Plenum trade momentum through that and through nothing else.

This, then, is all the theory asks of its reader: five statements about the Ether Plenum, and no more. Everything else in the forty papers is drawn from those five, and where a step remains to be taken, the paper names it. Where the theory agrees with Newton and with Einstein it says so, and in the weak field, where nearly all the testing has been done, it cannot be told apart from either. Where it differs from them it names the measurement that would settle the matter, and where a proposal of its own has failed, the failure is kept in print beside the results, with the arithmetic that undid it. The theory is new, and it is the work of one independent researcher; these forty papers are its case, made as fully as the evidence allows. Every number in them is recomputed by a verification program that anyone may download and run: https://github.com/worldlibrary-hub/NeoGravity.