Wave_Model_of_Gravity_Kinetic_Energy_Extraction_Spacetime.
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: I am developing an alternative theory of gravity that explains gravitational interaction not as a fundamental force, but as a consequence of the electromagnetic interaction of matter with the background field through anti-Stokes Mandelstam–Brillouin scattering on phonon modes. The main idea is that electromagnetic waves remove part of the kinetic energy of moving objects, and this energy loss changes the energy-momentum tensor T_μν, which, through Einstein's field equations, changes the spacetime metric. This is what we observe as gravity. The actual loss of an object's velocity during a single interaction with a wave is described by the nonlinear Doppler formula: Δv/v = 1 − (f₀/f)² where Δv is the change in the object's velocity during one interaction, v is the current velocity of the object, f₀ is the frequency of the incident wave, and f is the frequency of the reflected wave. This loss increases nonlinearly with velocity: at 10% of c the object loses about 1% of its velocity in a single interaction, at 30% about 11%, at 50% about 25%, at 80% about 64%, at 90% about 81%, and at 99% of c almost 98% of the velocity is lost in a single interaction. This formula explains why the speed of light is a practically unattainable limit—the braking effect increases sharply as the velocity approaches c. Within this model, I show that the gravitational constant G is not a primary quantity of nature but a derived parameter that arises as the product of two physical quantities: G = k(v) · U_bg. Here, U_bg is the energy density of the intrinsic electromagnetic field of a massive body, for example the Earth, and k(v) is the interaction efficiency coefficient between matter and this field, which depends on the velocity of the object relative to the background and determines the effective scattering cross-section of photons on the phonon modes of matter per kilogram of mass. Substituting the values U_bg = 3·10⁻⁷ J/m³ and k = 2.22·10⁻⁴ m²/kg, I obtain G = 6.66·10⁻¹¹ m³/(kg·s²), which, upon further calculation using g = G·M/r², gives the free-fall acceleration g = 9.81 m/s², exactly matching the experimental value. I verify the plausibility of the coefficient k in three independent ways. First, I compare the microscopic interaction cross-section k_atom with experimental data on stimulated Brillouin scattering (Wolff 2015, Bahl 2016), recalculated from macroscopic gain coefficients—the values agree within the same order of magnitude and are close to the Thomson scattering cross-section of the electron. Second, I calculate the energy flux from the Earth as U_bg·c, which gives 90 W/m². Third, I calculate the number of photon interactions required to sustain the gravitational force acting on an apple with a mass of 0.2 kg and show that this number is fully provided by the available photon flux of the surrounding environment. The work also shows that the principle of equivalence between inertial and gravitational mass, which remains an unexplained postulate in classical mechanics, follows automatically from the fact that the same coefficient k(v) simultaneously determines the efficiency of momentum absorption by a body from the field (gravitational mass) and the field's resistance to the acceleration of the body (inertial mass). I am looking for researchers and laboratories working in the fields of optomechanics, phonon-photon interactions, or stimulated Brillouin scattering to test this model experimentally. The paper describes in detail a proposed experiment—a hybrid opto-electro-mechanical resonator based on a lithium niobate (LiNbO₃) spherical object, in which an electro-optic traveling wave generated by a microwave signal simulates the motion of an object at velocities up to 40,000–45,000 km/s through anti-Stokes stimulated Brillouin scattering. The goal of the experiment is to confirm the velocity dependence of the kinetic energy loss efficiency predicted by the theory for an object moving relative to the background. I would be grateful for any criticism, calculations, comments regarding the mathematical framework, or suggestions for collaboration and refinement of the experimental part. Contact: [email protected]
Author: Laslov, Sasha
Language: English
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7167268751