In a universe that’s balanced and symmetrical in every way, an apparent anomaly about it, helps to explain why gravity seems to be only attractive and not repulsive as well.
Here is the anomaly: It is thought that the moon does
not have a magnetic field because it is too small to have generated the amount
of heat that would have given it such a field. On the other hand however, empty
space, whose cold temperature approaches the absolute zero, is permeated with a
magnetic field. How can that be?
To understand what we’re facing, we need to establish
mentally that when we say apples and oranges, we speak of two distinct
products. But when we speak of two forces of nature, we differentiate between them
not by what they are as products but by how each force is generated, and how it
acts on the situation that surrounds it. Magnetic force and gravitational force
happen to be one and the same force playing two different roles. It is thus
given two different names.
Well then, we begin by asserting that the natural
state of things is indeed to be balanced and symmetrical, which is what happens
at the time that objects of any kind are produced. This is why an iron bar has
its electrons pointing in all directions, resulting in the iron starting life
in a magnetically neutral state. But what’s with the magnetism that permeates
empty space?
To answer that question, we need to examine an aspect
of the universe that’s made of self-duplicating Alpha (A) particles. In this
universe, electrons rarely exist as free agents for, the moment that they escape
their atom, they risk being captured by another atom around whose nucleus they
will eventually revolve.
What happens instead is that when nudged by a
disturbance, the electrons of objects as small as an iron bar and as large as
the moon, see the elements of which they are made — de Broglie matter-waves — dissipate
into the empty space, carrying with them the magnetism of which they are made.
But when they come into contact with objects such as an iron bar or the moon,
they are absorbed by the electrons of these objects. Thus, neither the iron bar
nor the moon appear to be magnetized by the mere fact that they were exposed to
the de Brogle waves.
Themselves miniature electrons, however, these elements
are bipolar in the sense that they produce a force which can be attractive or
repulsive. It is one that will act magnetically or gravitationally depending on
the way that the waves are produced in the first place, and with what they come
into contact.
In fact, lodged inside matter or floating freely in
space, the de Broglie waves act on each other attractively (when placed head to
tail) or they act repulsively (when placed head to head or tail to tail.) This
says that in the interaction between the waves, the resulting force remains
intact when the waves attract each other, but loses much of its strength when the
waves repel each other.
This gives the attractive force an advantage over the repulsive one, however miniscule the advantage may be, which is why in the quest to establish a balance between the two forces in the universe, what we call gravity appears to exist at the expense of what we call magnetism. But, being one and the same, we differentiate between the two manifestations of the force with the instruments that we use to detect them and measure their strengths.