While
many scientists accept the idea that space is actually a physical structure
which contains stored energy and acts as the medium for the propagation of
electromagnetic waves, they are nevertheless aware that this idea creates the
problem that any pre-set structure, such as for example a cubic lattice or a
hexagonal close packed arrangement, will cause a severe obstacle to the motion
of planetary bodies or indeed to any motion at all. Another important objection
to a pre-set structure is that it would allow straight line motion to be
defined, hence denying the structure any role in the physical cause of uniform
straight line motion.
It
is essential therefore that the structure is not pre-set but rather that it is
an alignment determined in the vicinity of moving bodies by the motion of the
body itself through interaction with the structure. It is also essential that the
motionally induced structural alignment should explain inertial effects such as
centrifugal force. Since Maxwell showed the magnetic field around a current to
be a centrifugal force field, it is now suggested that the inertial field which
determines the structural alignment in space around a moving body, is in fact
just a variation on the same theme as a magnetic field. See the article “Straight Line Motion”,
http://gsjournal.net/Science-Journals/Research%20Papers-Mechanics%20/%20Electrodynamics/Download/7305
Frederick
David Tombe
