Recently I've had a couple insights that, to me, seem to offer reasoning for understanding gravity as an electromagnetic effect. I'm almost positive that I've read something about this a while ago, but I'm really not sure, so I'm just gonna start talkin
.So lets start with gravity. Any body of mass has individual particles non-uniformly spread throughout its volume. However, we can take a summation of masses and positions to define a center of mass. When pertaining to, say, a person and the earth, each center of gravity is roughly at their center.
Now, I think there might be a correlation between center of gravity and a center of charge (positive and negative). If we take a summation of the positive charges and their positions, as well as negative charges and their positions, we could approximate two centers of charge, positive and negative. It would, of course, be expected that these two centers would be located at the same spot, since we tend to be neutrally charged.
Here's were I think there may be an explanation. Lets assume the earth is a positively charged body (which I feel most on this board would have no problem doing). Lets also assume that the earth's center of positive charge is located at its core (basically right were its center of mass is). That center of positive charge is going to exert a repulsive force on a person's center of positive charge, and an attractive force on the center of negative charge.
If, as a result of the equal but opposite forces of repulsion and attraction, any change in the distance between a person's centers of charge and earths center of charge will cause the closer center of charge (regardless of how small that difference is) to feel a greater magnitude of force (due to the inverse square relation between electric force and distance).
Since the attractive force would tend the center of negative charge closer to the center of the earth (and visa versa for the center of positive charge), it would make since that that attractive force would be stronger than the repulsive force. In my opinion, this difference in magnitude may account for gravitational effects.
This is me just thinking out loud, but I would love to hear back from you guys about this. I'm almost positive I've read something similar to this before somewhere on the internets, but I'm just not sure.
Thanks guys, and I look forward to hearing your thoughts,
Squeej
