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(I would like to put an idea of mine to rest) About one year ago I took a college chemistry course in which I learned about intermolecular forces. The weakest of these intermolecular forces, I learned, was the dispersion force (also called London force). This force was discovered by Fritz W. London. Here I would like to quote my text:
"Dispersion forces are the result of fluctuations in the electron distribution within molecules or atoms. Since all atoms and molecules have electrons, they all exhibit dispersion forces... An instantaneous dipole on anyone atom induces instantaneous dipoles on neighboring atoms, which then attract one another..."
-by CHEMISTRY: A Molecular Approach, Nivaldo J. Tro (pg.466)
This (at the very least) seems a lot like gravity. So, why can't we explain gravity as just another aspect of the electromagnetic force which manifests itself through millions of intermolecular electron fluctuations?
Thanks,
"Dispersion forces are the result of fluctuations in the electron distribution within molecules or atoms. Since all atoms and molecules have electrons, they all exhibit dispersion forces... An instantaneous dipole on anyone atom induces instantaneous dipoles on neighboring atoms, which then attract one another..."
-by CHEMISTRY: A Molecular Approach, Nivaldo J. Tro (pg.466)
This (at the very least) seems a lot like gravity. So, why can't we explain gravity as just another aspect of the electromagnetic force which manifests itself through millions of intermolecular electron fluctuations?
Thanks,