Craig asked...
Do 'pushwhateverrons' have mass ?
Yes and no is the safest answer I can offer
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I never liked the concept that any particle can exist without mass nevertheless current science has elected to do it another way
..fair enough...but I tend to think whatever particle would do the Le Sage job probably will have small mass and travel very fast ..being really small will allow a small interaction (but sufficient) with matter and allow our little particle a high top speed... they will triumph because of sheer numbers...think of a neutrino as a possible and good candidate to be a "pushwhateverron"..billions of them pass thru us with little effect ...however maybe the little effect is the push we need to power LeSages universe ... could an imbalance in neutrino flow result in gravity I wonder...
If we entertain the HB we must consider its field.
A field of HBs could provide the sort of push field Le Sage suggests for gravity...
How many HB in a void I wonder..one could think the HB field must be present irrespective of matter being present or not as I doubt a void is empty of bosens (not only HBs) .
I often wonder what could be the particle Le Sage called
corpuscles or something
...or pushtrons whatever... but all the nuetrinoes out there may do the job..nuetrinoes seem to be accepted as valid science.
Even the EMS may do the job (although a few changes in the current science may be needed to get that up
Anyways 'pushwhateverrons' are very small
..may or may not have mass
..presumably incapable of observation
... so like many things it will only be the math that will give us the valid answers
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So all we need is data and formulas to use such otherwise we may have to go with what we have with GR
alex