Attraction: The Counterpart of Expulsion

There’s been a lot written in recent posts about the concept of expulsion – the moving away from a density of a less-dense essential element. It has been shown how expulsion is started and how it accumulates into acceleration of the element away from a prevailing density.

From a previous post:

The basic rule [of expulsion] is this: if the decrease in the net force on a specific element if it were moved away from its current position is less than the increase in the net cohesive forces of all other elements assuming that moving away happens, then the move happens. Some of the net forces are transformed into kinetic energy of the element moving away.

However, expulsion is only the case for what happens when a less-dense element in a more-dense local area is moved away from a neighbouring density. What about the case where a more-dense element is in a less-dense local area in the neighbourhood of a density? What happens then?

Attraction.

Close to the classic concept of gravity attracting two objects to one another, the process of attraction in Cascading Essence Cosmology seems familiar. It describes the process that allows the re-arrangement of many less-dense elements to make way for a more-dense element to move closer to the relevant density. In this way, it is the counterpart – if not the opposite – to the process of expulsion. Both, however, result in a drive towards denser and denser states of a localized area.

[I'm even willing to consider that expulsion and attraction can ultimately be described mathematically as a single process, but for now I'll continue to treat them separately.]

To recast the example from the earlier introduction to expulsion to describe attraction:

• if the net force on element A is 30 units in the direction of the prevailing density and
• if that element were moved slightly towards the prevailing density, increasing its cohesive force to 40 units and
• if the other elements around it moved slightly away to make room for it with the resulting net decrease in their cohesive energies of 5 units
• then the slight movement would happen and some of total energy would be transformed into kinetic energy for the moving element (in the direction of its prevailing density).

This motion would end up accelerating as the element in question moved closer and closer to the local density, until such a time as the element’s local density was sufficiently high to counteract its net attraction (kinetic plus cohesive energies) to the prevailing density. From the description of expulsion:

Think of it this way…If moving an element from its current position allows for a sufficiently more dense configuration of elements, then the move will happen. Otherwise things will remain as they are.

The same thing holds for attraction.

There’s not much more that needs to be said about attraction at this time – it is a much more understandable process than expulsion as it is so close to the familiar concept of gravity.