A Thermal-Circulation Hypothesis for Matter, Cooling and Planetary Motion - A Preliminary Mathematical Model of Luminous and Dark Thermal Currents in the Solar System

This paper presents a speculative thermodynamic model in which matter, planetary motion, darkness, cooling and certain electromagnetic phenomena are treated as parts of one circulating thermal system. Matter is proposed to consist of stable units formed when fragments separate from primordial thermal waves and become confined within quarks and larger particles. Ordinary sunlight represents the outward luminous phase of the system. A second, non-luminous phase, termed the dark thermal current, is proposed to travel inward at twice the speed of light. Nine main inward thermal channels are associated with Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. Outward solar rays are proposed to interact with dark thermal rays near the outer region of the Solar System. Part of the luminous heat carried by the solar rays is extracted and returned inward in a dark thermal state characterised by a temperature of approximately 2.725 K, equivalent to −270.4 °C at the border of the Solar System. For the Earth channel, the thermal path is defined as: The outward stage travels at (c), while the returning stages travel at (2c). Requiring this complete circulation to equal exactly 24 hours gives an Earth-channel boundary distance of approximately 116.096 astronomical units from the Sun. The paper develops equations for outward solar flux, conversion into returning dark heat, planetary cooling, momentum transfer and orbital acceleration. If the opposing thermal currents follow inverse-square geometry, their residual interaction also follows an inverse-square law and reproduces the mathematical form of Keplerian planetary motion. The model is presented as an untested theoretical hypothesis. The proposed thermons, dark thermal current, nine black-hole channels and propagation at (2c) have not been experimentally demonstrated. The purpose of the paper is to define the hypothesis clearly enough that its assumptions, numerical consequences and possible tests can be examined.