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What is Gravity?

https://www.waldorflibrary.org/articles/1117-what-is-gravity

Can we approach gravity another way, to find an explanation? We will attempt to outline how this can be done, and see how it relates to Steiner's comment. Steiner described how we have a different kind of consciousness when we enter the spiritual world, one which looks inwards from the periphery of the cosmos towards an infinitely unreachable center. This is the polar opposite to our normal consciousness, through which we experience ourselves as being at a center looking out towards infinity. It is possible to characterize a space which fits this consciousness just as we find euclidean space fits our everyday consciousness. This is often called counter-space or Sun-space, with an infinite inwardness instead of an infinite outwardness. If indeed there is another space apart from the one we know, we can ask what it is like to be in both at once! What we would find is a kind of conflict or tension because the two spaces have different laws. If a body tries to keep its shape and size fixed in ordinary space while it moves then its analogous properties in counter-space must usually change, or visa versa. The result is a so-called stress, which in physics is an internal force resulting from a coerced change of shape (called strain). Thus if a piece of elastic is pulled to twice its original length it reacts with a force which is called an internal stress. Now when objects are in two spaces at once il is possible that they suffer a deformation (or strain) in one or other space, and as a result there is a stress. For example if a cube moves nearer to the counter-space infinite inwardness, then il appears to get bigger in counter-space even though it stays the same size in space. Now geometry cannot explain such a stress, it can only describe the change of shape or size. Thus geometry handles strain but the stress comes from somewhere else. We cross over from mathematics to physics when we try to go from strain to stress (or force). Thus we .see two polar opposite yin-yang-like spaces, and stretched on the cross between them, as it were, beings suffering the stress we tend rather dispassionately to describe in scientific terms.