Three Roads, One Result: Convergent Derivations of Newtonian, Hydrodynamic, and Tensor Gravitation, and the Case for the Ether Plenum in the Weak Field
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. Three independent formalisms are each carried through the classical tests: Newtonian relativity mechanics, classical fluid dynamics, and Einstein's tensor calculus. They produce identical predictions in the weak field, where every existing measurement has been made. Light deflection at the solar limb yields 1.7512 arcseconds by the fluid and tensor routes alike. Mercury's perihelion advance yields 42.98 arcseconds per century against an observed residual consistent with zero. Redshift, Shapiro delay and the frame-dragging dipole agree within uncertainty. According to the Theory of NeoGravity that agreement is the point: three routes sharing no apparatus land on one set of numbers, so the simpler two are enough wherever gravitation has been measured, and the tensor calculus is a language for the same equilibrium rather than a requirement of it. The chain requires no tensor apparatus. Matter exchanges mass-energy with the Ether Plenum, the transport dilutes across shells and returns an inward load by Newton's third law, and the Plenum settles into hydrostatic equilibrium. Because equilibrium integrates the force rather than reproducing it, the inverse-square load produces a profile exponential in the reciprocal radius, and one optical exponent calibrated against the measured deflection determines the Plenum. That exponent, the post-Newtonian parameter gamma, is the one fitted constant. Because the expression is exact rather than approximate, it predicts a second-order coefficient of 2.00 against general relativity's 1.75: a difference of 0.73 microarcseconds in the bending of starlight at the solar limb, below present astrometry and within reach of what is being designed. 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: W7204271503
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