Excess Surface Energy and Attraction of Matter: A New Vision to explain the Origin of Gravitation

This talk presents a model based on minimization of excess surface energy to better explain the origin of gravitation, which is more intuitive and coherent with other fundamental principles of the working of the physical world. Here’s a picture to imagine: If a big ball of liquid (say water or mercury) is broken into many pieces, and kept on a frictionless plane in vacuum (say in an enclosed glass-jar), the smaller balls would tend to merge back into a single ball (initial state). An observer watching the phenomena from outside the glass-jar would explain the phenomena in terms of some mysterious force (e.g. gravitation), but the merging of the smaller balls in this ideal experimental set-up is merely an outcome of the tendency of the universe to minimize free energy. Surface tension explains this phenomenon satisfactorily. For same reason, metallic surfaces touching in the vacuum can stick to each other and fuse, known as the cold welding.
This model has the potential to lead us to the grand unification of the fundamental laws of nature. In our model, the concept of space-time curvature is replaced by the curved meniscus of “fluid” energy-field around a mass.
We strongly suggest designing a suitable experimental set-up to test the validity of the model.