An Attractive Proposition (was - Space Elevator is itpossible?)

The model of which you speak is not
new -- it was originally investigated by a
fellow named LeSage. This model has
specific implications which can be put to
experimental test. Those tests resulted
in evidence counter to the LeSagian
theory, and so the theory was rightly
dismissed.

Quite correct. La Sage in his day, with his simplistic "shadowing"
concept of gravitation, knew nothing of what modern science knows today,
nor of recent discoveries in deep space astrophysics.

And there is a 'litmus test' of any viable theory of
gravitation. Among the various theories a

1.) Gravity-as-geometry (ie., "curvature" of space), '4-D fields' etc.

2.) Gravity-as-equations

3.) Gravity-as a pseudo or 'fictitious' force

4.) Gravity as 'transfer/exchange particles' (gravitons) that 'reach up
and pull stuff down'.

All of the above can be be lumped under the
Gravity-as-"Attraction" paradigm, or Painius' 'pull-gravity paradigm'
(PGP). And they all face the same ultimate 'litmus test'.

And here it is:

What is the _mechanism of causation_ that literally
POWERS the collpase of a massive star down to a black hole, often
popping off a supernova (or an occasional hypernova) in so doing? What
_literal mechanism_ drives the stellar collapse that drives the fusion
that rebounds in such a blast? And what mechanism also POWERS the far
more energetic and *sustained* process of a quasar?

Of course La Sage's simplistic "push" model has no
answer either. La Sage had no concept of the spatial medium (the
so-called "aether") being under a state of hyperpressurization that
exceeds degeneracy pressure of the atomic nucleus. La Sage in his day
knew nothing of atomic physics or of the strong nuclear force.. or the
concept that the SNF and gravity are `effects` of _one and the same
spaceflow_ at different levels of acceleration into the core of the
atomic nucleus. He knew nothing of such a concept's providing
unification of gravity in a univesal UFTOE/GUT, the 'holy grail' of
physics.
Such a hyperpressure state, or 'supra-cosmic
overpressure' (SCO) would be the 'key in the lock' to which La Sage had
no access in his day.

One may well ask, "why don't we feel this pressure?"
First off, we live in an 'ocean' of air at a pressure of about 14.7 psi.
We are pressure dwellers in our element. A fish at the bottom of the
Marianas Trench is likewise a pressure dweller in his element, and
doesn't feel the water pressure. In like manner, we, our planet, our
Sun, and our Cosmos, are Pressure Dwellers in our element, the 'Ocean',
the hyperpressurized Plenum, of space.

So out of all the above-mentioned theories of
gravitation, only one appears able to answer the 'litmus test'.. the
Flowing-Space (FS) model with its 'key in the lock' feature, the SCO.

If anyone can come up with a better and more
comprehensive model of the _cause_ of gravity, by all means let them
step right up and 'fill in the blank'____________.