[analog]

Allen,

I sometimes imagine our universe as a huge three dimensional checkerboard and the only pieces on it are the red ones, they represent particles. The black pieces are left off, they aren’t important. The black squares are what’s important, and every square on the board is black, unless occupied by a red piece.

The red pieces represent the particles of our world, and are proportional in quantity to the black squares, and the black squares represent definable volumes of space, the whole checkerboard is our closed universal system. The quantities of both entities are now static, finite, and absolute. Also, with every plank instant of time, the red pieces must move to another square, thus we have absolute motion, and the total amount of motion of the system is also static, finite and absolute.

Now, due to absolute motion, we can view the black squares as thermodynamic degrees of temperature, and we can explore the universal interactions by applying the laws of thermodynamics. We already conserved all of the fundamental elements, because nothing is added or taken away, they are merely rearranged. All we must do now is explain what they are trying to do.

If the black squares are degrees of temperature, then a solid object contains less black squares within the area it occupies than does a liquid or gas. A solid object has so few black squares within it that the red pieces that make it up can’t get passed each other because there isn’t enough of a square showing for them to go to, the whole unit must move as a whole, and it will move through any less dense formation. The gas formation has more squares between the red pieces that make it up, so it is in more of a state of random motion because any one particle cannot be trapped by the others.

Now, if we apply a set velocity to the red pieces, and we view the pieces as maintaining their current square due to colliding with the others around it, we can now see the entire board in a new light and proximity of piece to piece becomes relative to the whole system. The whole thing is interacting and the spatial (amount of squares) separation of everything is relative to everything else. The gas surrounding a solid formation has proportionally more and more squares within it as you travel outward from the object. The spatial arrangement of the gas between two solid objects is relative to the spatial arrangement of both solid objects. Thus the position of all of the pieces are at the mercy of a near equilibrium of sorts, and the changing of one pieces motion changes the proportions of the whole board. This is our view of perceived “electromagnetic energy”, but it is just a slight shift, whereby everything ends up back in position.

Being as the black squares can be viewed as “thermal degrees of temperature” we can apply the interactions of two thermal bodies to this system and realize that it isn’t energy that’s being distributed, as one body cools (condenses) and the other heats up (expands) along with the gas surrounding them, its black squares (space).

This allows us to understand how two solid objects affect each other’s motion, as seen with our planet and the Sun. The red piece (particle) interaction doesn’t stop at the visible edges of the planet or star, the whole system is filled with it, and the distance between the Sun and Earth is maintained by less dense particle interaction proportional to their mass. The particles within the Sun are so dense that they constantly affect the amount of squares between the two bodies, thus we go round and round maintaining near spatial, not energy, equilibrium by means of imbalanced motion.

The only question is what causes the pieces to want to come together on the board?

Does any of this make any sense? And am I close to what you were getting at, in your search for why?