Proofs Confirming NeoGravity: The GW170817 Multi-Messenger Event as Evidence for Propagation Through the Ether Plenum
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: The Theory of NeoGravity states a physical cause for gravitation. Space is not an empty void; it is filled, everywhere, by the Ether Plenum. Every body gives off radiation without pause — the Sun, the Earth, a stone in the hand — most of it invisible, across the whole spectrum from radio waves to gamma rays. That radiation carries momentum outward, into the Plenum. The Plenum returns it, inward, on the body that sent it out; Newton’s third law allows nothing else. That returned load is gravity, the Radiative Undertow. It is compressive, so the Plenum settles denser toward a mass, and a body falls by answering to the state of the Plenum where it is. Nothing acts across empty space. In this account the curvature of a four-dimensional spacetime metric describes the Plenum’s settled profile and does not cause it: Newton’s potential, Einstein’s metric and the gravitational field are three names for one state of the Ether Plenum under load. The LIGO and Virgo detectors recorded a gravitational signal from the merger of two neutron stars in NGC 4993 on 17 August 2017. Fermi and INTEGRAL recorded a short gamma-ray burst from the same location 1.74 seconds later. The two had traveled about 130 million light-years and arrived within two seconds of one another, which bounds any difference between the propagation speed of gravitational influence and the speed of light at order 10⁻¹⁵, fourteen orders of magnitude better than binary pulsar timing. According to the Theory of NeoGravity the two arrived together because they are two disturbances of one Plenum, and that is an advantage in explanation and not evidence, since the measurement cannot tell the two readings apart. Under the standard reading, spacetime ripples and electromagnetic radiation travel at the same speed because each is separately postulated to do so. Under the reading the Ether Plenum requires, both are disturbances propagating through one fluid, so their equal speeds follow from a property of the Plenum rather than from a coincidence between two independent postulates. That is an explanatory advantage and not evidence, because the measurement does not discriminate between the two readings. An apparent tension with the nanohertz pulsar-timing reading is superficial: the interferometers measure a transient strain signal whose propagation speed is constrained, while the timing arrays measure the angular correlation pattern of a stochastic background, and only the second discriminates polarization. One event seen two ways therefore fixes the speed of gravitational influence against the speed of light to one part in a thousand million million, and leaves the polarization content as the quantity that discriminates. Five statements say what the Ether Plenum is. They are set down before any result, in one place, so that nothing can be slipped in afterwards to rescue a number that comes out wrong; that is their purpose, and the reader is entitled to hold the theory to it. The first two say nothing that is not already true of water, or of steel, or of air. The Plenum is neither created nor destroyed; and when it is pushed, it moves. Any physicist would grant those two of any material at all, and they cost the theory nothing. It is the three that follow that commit it. Squeeze the Plenum and it presses back, with exactly one third of the energy it holds; and that fraction is not chosen but forced, because whatever fills it has no mass. Twist it and it answers as a fluid does that remembers, for a moment, having been a solid: stiff against a quick disturbance, yielding to a slow one. And a body holds the Plenum about it denser than it is far away, by an amount fixed by the body’s mass; matter and Plenum trade momentum through that and through nothing else. This, then, is all the theory asks of its reader: five statements about the Ether Plenum, and no more. Everything else in the forty papers is drawn from those five, and where a step remains to be taken, the paper names it. Where the theory agrees with Newton and with Einstein it says so, and in the weak field, where nearly all the testing has been done, it cannot be told apart from either. Where it differs from them it names the measurement that would settle the matter, and where a proposal of its own has failed, the failure is kept in print beside the results, with the arithmetic that undid it. The theory is new, and it is the work of one independent researcher; these forty papers are its case, made as fully as the evidence allows. Every number in them is recomputed by a verification program that anyone may download and run: https://github.com/worldlibrary-hub/NeoGravity.
Author: Guagliardo, John
Language: English
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7204229903
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