Abstract
This work is concerned about the true physical mechanism of gravity. The Higgs theory introduces important changes in Einstein’s view about the nature of empty space, about the meaning of motions and about the nature of the gravitational physics. The Higgs Quantum Space (HQS) is a real quantum fluid spatial medium, giving inertial mass to the elementary particles by the Higgs mechanism. Therefore, the HQS rules the inertial motion of matter-energy and is the local ultimate reference for rest and for motions. In this new scenario, velocity with respect to the local HQS and not relative velocity is the origin of all the effects of motion. The HQS also necessarily is responsible for the gravitational fields because it is mass that creates the gravitational fields. The observed absence of the gravitational slowing of the GPS clocks by the solar field and the absence of light anisotropy with respect to earth are both the obvious signature of the true physical mechanism of gravity in action. These observations show that the HQS is moving itself round the sun according to a Keplerian velocity field, consistent with the planetary motions, which will be shown to accurately create, besides the observed gravitational dynamics, all the observed effects of the gravitational fields on light and on clocks. Current theories explain the absence of the solar gravitational slowing of the GPS clocks with base in the principle of equivalence. In the language of the present work, the HQS materializes the local Lorentz frames (LFs), turning them into local proper LFs, intrinsically stationary with respect to the local moving HQS. In its motions, the HQS carries these local proper LFs with it round the sun, so that the planets of the solar system are stationary with respect to them, which directly predicts the absence of the gravitational slowing of the GPS clocks by the solar field, the absence of light anisotropy with respect to earth and all the other effects of the gravitational fields observed on earth.
Highlights
In order to explain the orbital motion of the planets in the absence of Newtonian gravitational forces, Einstein assumed that the astronomical bodies curve the geometry of the four-dimensional spacetime in their neighborhood and that, in this curved spacetime, the orbits of matter bodies follow geodesic paths, governed by a generalized principle of inertia
Experimental observations have shown that atomic clocks, stationary within a gravitational field, corroborate, to first order of approximation, exactly the gravitational slowing predicted by General Theory of Relativity (GR)
All clocks orbiting in circular equatorial orbits round an astronomical body, which normally is moving itself in a regular circular equatorial orbit round a larger body, are stationary with respect to the local Higgs Quantum Space (HQS)
Summary
Since Galileo, it was well-known that local mechanical experiments are unable to detect the velocity of a laboratory in uniform motion along a straight line. In order to put this idea in practice, he assumed that, in the view of a hypothetical stationary observer, the rate of clocks and the lengths of the meter sticks change with relative velocity in such a way that they let invariant the laws electrodynamics. This has enforced the conclusion that measurements of the velocity of light, by the method of light go-return round-trips in any direction, give the same result. A scientifically sound explanation for the origin of the inertial mass was found only fifty years later by the Higgs theory
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