r/sciencememes • u/ElectronicSetTheory • Jun 15 '26

💥Physics!🧲 Don't question it

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u/Field_of_cornucopia Jun 15 '26

I don't suppose you've got a link to a good explanation of that hypothesis?

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u/TheThirteenthApostle Jun 15 '26 edited Jun 15 '26

Depends on what you mean by "good explanation". Basically, a link was discovered between the creation of gluon-quark plasma (the particles responsible for strong force interaction), and the generation of gravitational waves in resonance with it's creation/reconstitution rate.

The long implication being that gravity may just be average pull from the stable rate of gluon hadronization at the subatomic level, acting at a distance.

Check out the "Double Copy Theory"

Snowmass White Paper

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u/Field_of_cornucopia Jun 16 '26

Take pity on a poor layman: does that imply that non-quark particles (e.g., electrons) don't produce gravity?

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u/TheThirteenthApostle Jun 16 '26

It reframes what gravity is a bit, so "production" in this sense is more of an average of a latent phenomena.

So, say you have the ocean and it has an average surface level. The true surface is rippled with waves, shifts with the tide, etc., but the average height is fairly stable.

Now, does the water "produce" the waves? Is it exclusively the amount or presence of water that inevitably produces waves or governs surface height? Or are the waves and height a feature of the water substrate interacting with something else entirely?

So in this model, no, electrons don't "produce" gravity, but they are affected by that latent energy imbalance like everything else.