Jesse Babcock
Jesse Babcock | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1915 |
| Residence | United States |
| Nationality | USA |
| Known for | "True suction" theory of the origin of matter and gravity |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Gravity, cosmology, theory of energy |
Jesse Babcock (born 1915) is an American self-taught theorist associated with the Natural Philosophy community. He is known for an unorthodox cosmological framework he calls the "true suction" theory, which he developed to explain the origin of matter, energy and Gravity outside the framework of mainstream physics.
Biography
Babcock reports having only an eighth-grade formal education, a fact he presents as central to his outlook, arguing that it left him unencumbered by conventional scientific training. By his own account he became interested in perpetual motion as a child before 1923, and at around the age of fifteen concluded that a working perpetual-motion device could not be built until "the secret of the universe" was understood. He states that experiments imagining spring-and-spoke wheel mechanisms convinced him that any purely mechanical arrangement will always balance out, ruling out perpetual motion in practice.
Babcock dates the origin of his theory to 1953. He recounts hearing a radio report that high-frequency sound waves from jet engines were damaging the lungs of ground crews, which led him to reconsider the idea that sound is "nothing." Reflecting on empty space, he concluded that space must be endless and that it is the only source from which anything could arise.
Work
Babcock's central claim is that space itself possesses a dynamic characteristic he terms "true suction," from which all matter and energy originate. In his view "true suction" is not an object or substance but a property of space, and everything that exists ultimately derives from space and this characteristic.
A recurring theme in his writing is that ordinary "suction" does not exist as a real force. He argues that what people call suction—for example, drawing liquid up a straw—is actually the expansion of a cavity against atmospheric pressure, so that the liquid is pushed rather than sucked. He regards everyday suction as a limited "mirror image" of the "true suction" that he attributes to space.
Babcock also holds that Gravity operates as a push rather than a pull. He offers the shape of galaxies as an argument, reasoning that if gravity were purely attractive a line of stars could not produce a dense center, and that galaxies would tend toward ring or "doughnut" shapes rather than concentrating mass at the core.
He summarizes his position as a set of "natural laws," among them the claims that space and the universe are endless, that a state in which nothing at all exists is impossible, that everything must have arisen from empty space and its characteristics, that nothing happens without a reason, and that the ultimate explanation for existence must be entirely natural and maximally simple. He identifies "true suction" as the single principle capable of satisfying these conditions, and connects the framework to religious and metaphysical ideas, describing a "Spiritual universe" that his theory predicts.
Babcock states that he has made predictions from the theory over a period of decades and maintains that none have been disproven. These claims lie well outside mainstream physics and cosmology and have not been recognized or tested by the scientific community.