A Stochastic Approach to Gravity

Thermodynamics is the study of certain macroscopic properties of
matter. Maxwell, Boltzmann and Gibbs developed a statistical approach
to the subject, using the concept of atoms.

Mach did not "believe" in atoms and criticized their approach. The
atomistic statistical method eventually "triumphed" and Mach is
generally considered to have been in error.

Mach may however have been closer to the truth in another domain - for
a reason that would have shocked him. He believed that the inertial
mass of an object was in some way related to interactions with the rest
of the matter in the World.

On the microscale, matter interacts quantum mechanically via the
electromagnetic, strong and weak forces. Scientists have long sought to
"unify" the "force" of gravity with those three forces.

Quantum mechanical forces and past history cause particles in local
regions of "spacetime" to flow in the same general direction, guided by
stochastical processes.

A test particle "introduced" into such a region should ineract quantum
mechanically with those particles already present and join in their
flow. On the macro scale such a process can be described in the
conventional classical ways, just as thermodynamics was originally
described macroscopically

But by following methods similar to those of Maxwell, Boltzmann and
Gibbs, gravity might well turn out to be a stochastic quantum process.

Barry

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