Fluctuons—III. Gravity

The fluctuon principle provides a model of gravity. Mass and field are interpreted in terms of density depression in the full sea of vacuum fermions. Gravitons are interpreted as self-perpetuating chains of transient fermion-antifermion pairs (propagating gravitational fluctuons) and gravitational waves as compression-expansion waves of vacuum density. The direct gravitational interaction between absorbing particles is repulsive (whether the absorbers are permanent positive energy particles or trapped fluctuons). The attractive gravitational interaction arises from the ‘pushing’ effect of propagating gravitational fluctuons originating in the low mass regions of space, where the density of trapped fluctuons is highest. The model implies the principle of equivalence and through this the general relativistic equations of gravitation.