A Mechanistic Model of Physics

A Mechanistic Model of PhysicsA natural definition of the elementary charge and the mechanical properties of space that follow from it reveal an intuitively comprehensible mode of operation of gravitation and electrostatics Newton considered action at a distance without a mediating medium to be absurd. The derivation shows gravitation and the electrostatic force as the same mechanically comprehensible process: the common mode of operation arises from finding the common coupling factor of charge and mass to space. Each entity influences space, and as a consequence space produces the force at the location of the other object, since each entity is subject to the properties of space. Attraction from a distance is thus replaced by a local force. The same mechanically comprehensible process yields, with the same formula and the same property of space, both the electrostatic force on the electron and the gravitational force between Sun and Earth, in exact agreement with the known laws. This short paper derives a natural property of the elementary charge from the 1948 definition of the ampere and from the force on the first Bohr orbit: an effective area e_m2 = 2.307×10⁻²¹ m². The mechanical properties of space follow from the effective area. The gravitational constant extended by 4π can be decomposed into the effective area per kilogram K_Gx and the acceleration property of space a_0R. The model uses only known constants of nature and introduces no new or adjusted parameter. It is not intended as a counter-proposal to theoretical physics, but as a mechanistic explanation of the processes behind the theories. Introduction to Natural Physics (in German): wanchai.ch/b-pr/?showdoc=select