Le Sage's theory of gravitation | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-28

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00:01:05 1 Basic theory
00:06:03 2 Fatio
00:07:57 2.1 Features of Fatio's theory
00:16:39 2.2 Reception of Fatio's theory
00:17:54 3 Cramer and Redeker
00:21:00 4 Le Sage
00:22:00 4.1 Le Sage's basic concept
00:23:19 4.2 Reception of Le Sage's theory
00:26:29 5 Kinetic theory
00:32:03 6 Wave models
00:41:38 7 Later assessments
00:46:09 8 Predictions and criticism
00:50:26 8.1 Matter and particles
00:50:36 8.2 Gravitational shielding
00:53:27 8.3 Speed of gravity
00:56:09 8.4 Range of gravity
00:59:26 8.5 Energy
01:00:26 9 Non-gravitational applications and analogies
01:03:46 10 Recent activity
01:06:42 11 Primary sources
01:09:03 12 Secondary sources
01:09:13 13 External links
01:09:23 External links



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Le Sage's theory of gravitation is a kinetic theory of gravity originally proposed by Nicolas Fatio de Duillier in 1690 and later by Georges-Louis Le Sage in 1748.  The theory proposed a mechanical explanation for Newton's gravitational force in terms of streams of tiny unseen particles (which Le Sage called ultra-mundane corpuscles) impacting all material objects from all directions. According to this model, any two material bodies partially shield each other from the impinging corpuscles, resulting in a net imbalance in the pressure exerted by the impact of corpuscles on the bodies, tending to drive the bodies together. This mechanical explanation for gravity never gained widespread acceptance, although it continued to be studied occasionally by physicists until the beginning of the 20th century, by which time it was generally considered to be conclusively discredited.