Gravitation – Snowplow Guy

November 15, 2019

Version 1.0 – Initial Release

So what is mass/matter?

The prevailing particle theory seems to suggest atoms are made up of quarks and quarks are made up of XXX and XXX is made up of YYY, and so on. But what if this is not the case?

I propose the following, and I have to do it by example:

Suppose it’s snowing out, and we have a guy in a small pickup truck with a plow trying to keep the snow off a giant parking lot. The operator drives forward for a while, but then the snow builds up in front of the plow to the point where the truck cannot proceed any further. So naturally, the operator turns in some random direction and continues plowing. Again, the truck gets stuck, and he turns randomly and continues to plow.

Eventually, the poor operator has plowed up mounds of snow all around the truck.

So, I propose this roundish ridge around the truck represents a fundamental unit of matter.

Further, lets postulate that the temperature of this matter is a function of the snowplow’s speed.

So, what about temperature? We know from science we start out at zero, and the so-called ‘state’ of matter is determined by the temperature.

At our living temperature, say 300 Kelvin, matter has a well-defined boundary. But what if we make it really cold? Well, the science has been done, and the boundary of the matter spreads out into sort of a cloud. Back to our analogy, lower temperatures mean the snowplow operator slows down to where he cannot keep up with the snowfall, and therefore, the boundary wall that gets built becomes less well defined.

But what about heating things up a bit? Ok, we know what will happen. We will pass through frozen, then liquid, then gas, then plasma. If we keep going though, we begin to tear things really apart and enter the nuclear energy realm.

At nuclear, I submit that the plow operator will just burst through any wall that gets built. The matter basically just tears itself apart.

After nuclear? The poor operator is going so fast that nothing matters any more. One can think of the analogy of a black hole.

Is there any upper limit to temperature? There probably is, because we know that the speed of light in a vacuum exists.

What assumptions gave we made? Well, there’s snow falling. What does this represent? And what does the vehicle operator represent? I don’t think we have words for these yet.