Hi Alex, I'm glad that we've helped make your day by joining you in this cerebral workout.
It's good to stretch the mind sometimes, and seeing as I'm stuck here inside and not outside enjoying the cloudless sky of a new moon I might as well get into this! I did let the word theory slip in once, I didn't think I had, but I did maintain the usage of the word hypothesis mostly.
TK when I talked about building a box to shiled the interior I meant just that - it would not have to be perfecly spherical, or located in the dead centre of a gravitation / pressure field, just a box will do in my "model" there so as to block the "pressure" effects. Gravity DOES allow for this kind of effect, as you say, in a centred, balanced force-neutral way. That was exactly the point I was making, in the context of the pressure model you would not need to balance the forces a all, rather block or negate them with a solid structure. The box should apparently block the pressure force regardless of the box's size, shape or location.
Alex has now qualified his concept of the pressure and it's "blockability" by using the metaphor of a Roman soldiers shield - which would negate my comments re a "zero pressure box". Bugger!
However does this not then lead to an unsettling (inelegant perhaps?) solution in that instead of one kind of pressure particle there must be different kinds, each having a different resistance to blocking? We are having trouble locating one kind of graviton, but now we may be searching for many different kinds of pressurons instead.
Are we talking perhaps not about particles then but something akin to electromagnetic radiation, ie a pressure radiation, with different frequencies having different penetrating abilities. A possibility.
I'll put up just one more thought before I drop off to think (and work
) for a bit longer then .... Alex you mentioned the great inter-galactic voids, and pressure causing something or someone to "float" immobile rather than a lack of gravity causing the same. To extend this a little further then current cosmology tells us that the universe is not, in fact, infinite but rather is expanding outwards. Assuming that is true, lets say we are positioned right out there at the "edge" of the expanding universe .. there is an entire universe of "stuff" behind us sending pressure particles, and stuff all in front of us if you follow me
would not the enormous pressure differential then
surely push us outwards? Is this then perhaps what really does happen, is it maybe even part of the reason why the universe is expanding (having it's own extremities pushed outwards like the skin of a ballon that has more and more gas (pressure) being created inside it. Or would we still float motionless in that place even with a universe of pressure-sending stuff behind us.
Talk about being between a rock and a hard place!
