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Chris Watson is back, and this time he comes with the precise calculations needed to test his theory. If proven true, Watson’s Entropy Scale Factor (ESF) theory will change everything we thought we knew about physics by providing the long-overdue refinement defining what gravity is and how it emerges. The only thing standing between him, and this potential breakthrough is finding someone to help him test it.

Watson, an oncologist doctor by day and physics enthusiast by night, believes he’s found the missing piece linking general relativity and Newtonian gravity theories. Watson’s ESF theory could create the same predictions as both within simple systems while also making better predictions for more complicated systems where our current gravitational theories fall short. If proven true, ESF would also extinguish the need for several theoretical forces including dark matter and dark energy.

Gravity Recap

To understand how Watson’s entropy scale factor theory redefines gravity, we need to know how gravity is currently determined.

To refresh your mind, Newton’s law of gravitation is part of Issacs Newton’s 1687 theory of classical mechanics. It states that mass creates gravity. You remember, he used the concept of an apple falling from a tree to help explain it. Anyway, Newton was convinced all the particles throughout the entire Universe are attracted to each other according to their mass. The more mass they have, the stronger their gravitational force. So regarding Newton’s apple, the Earth has a stronger gravitational field than the apple, therefore the apple is drawn to the Earth.

A couple hundred years later, in 1905, Albert Einstein introduced his theory of special relativity, which combined space and time into a unified fabric called spacetime — it’s where the infamous E=mc2 equation comes from — however, this theory didn’t acknowledge gravity. So in 1915, Einstein expanded special relativity to account for gravity in his theory of general relativity.