If you have not already done so, review the related first thread "Space Composed of a Field of Virtual Energy". It is essential to the following analysis. Think of the quantum foam of the empty vacuum of space as composed of virtual energy, some of which is the Higgs quantum field, an excitation of which is the now well known Higgs boson, with a mass of 1.25 GeV whenever and wherever it is excited from the Higgs field in the vicinity of the bound energy that is matter. The Higgs boson imparts inertial mass to itself, and to select particles of atomic structure including electrons, electroweak bosons, quarks, and their antiparticles, by slowing all of those particles and itself down to sublight speed. Now imagine there is a massive amount of the bound energy that is matter somewhere in the proximity of the Higgs field. Higgs (part of the quantum foam) is interacting with the mass, and as the mass gets denser and denser, so does the density of the energies associated with the Higgs boson. At this point, and as A DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTIC of this interpretation, you should remember that NOT ONLY is it possible for the Higgs to impart inertia to bound energy; BOUND ENERGY THAT IS MATTER can also impart inertia to OTHER BOUND ENERGY. The Higgs can penetrate all the way to the centers of gravitating masses to impart inertia, but once that is done and the energy is bound, other particles of bound energy may also act to bind the energy of the interior particles. This has just set up the preconditions for A NEAR PERFECT INVERSE SQUARE LAW gravitational field for bound energy simply because particles of bound energy are manifestly ROUND in shape AS ARE ALL OF THE MASSIVE BODIES LIKE LARGE MOONS, PLANETS, AND STARS that are composed of them. They retain that shape as an artifact of the perfect timeless rotation that binds it so that it does not dissipate as unbound energy does in the relativistic quantum foam, and due to the interaction of the Higgs field from every direction to keep the bound energy of atomic structure intact. Notice also that in this model, the inverse square law field is there no matter how large or how small the inertial mass is. The specific quantity of the inertial mass will translate to the quantity of the gravitational mass, just as required by the principle of equivalence. In the vicinity of gravitating bodies, not all of the energy is concentrated within the bound energy that is matter. A lot of it is in the activity of the Higgs field, which would also explain dark matter. Only time and energy were used to produce this model. Space as we understand it is an illusion. Time isn't just Lorentz covariant with space; time and at least two means of energy propagation/timeless rotation IS space. Almost anyone can pick up the math from here, so I won't bother with doing that yet. QED. Higgs + Bound Energy = Gravity
It would also be nice if we didn't need to use the fudge factor G (or better yet, knew where it comes from) even in General Relativity's field equations. I begin to see that it may actually represent something buried much deeper in terms of entanglement and about the way matter becomes bound (gets inertia). Fudge factors are a little noted but significant defect of the work of most mathematicians when they try to do physics. Whenever something cannot be counted or explained, any discrepancies get lumped into fudge or correction factors. The universal gravitational constant G is one example. When something is "fudged" or otherwise "glossed over" it is usually because it is not understood. More fudge factors or free parameters (20 are required to calculate proton mass from "first principles", for example) in a calculation does nothing to improve understanding, no matter how popular this trend may be. At least now I understand one of my former colleague's preoccupation with the Cavendish experiment. A bid to do such a test aboard the space shuttle by him (a Royal Society published gravity physicist) was ultimately turned down. Too bad. It might have actually removed the apparatus from the confounding effects of the Earth's magnetic field and the eddy currents it would produce in a metal torsional pendulum. As has been shown in a metal drop experiment down a vertical shaft in another thread on this forum, this effect is larger than you might think; it actually levitated some metallic weights relative to non metallic ones in free fall. For measurements with a damped torsional pendulum, G could be considerably larger than we might otherwise expect.
