Pascal DUBOIS
Keywords: gravitational field; gravitation; gravitational interaction; Schwarzschild radius; electrostatic field; electric field; electrostatic interaction; charge; neutron decay; proton; electron; neutrino; proton radius; fine structure constant.
The approach adopted to construct the gravitational field can be transposed to the electrostatic field: electrostatic interaction results from an exchange of energy between charged particles and the global field they create.
Like the gravitational field, the electrostatic field is characterised by its energy and its limiting radius of action; it is periodically refreshed by waves ensuring the exchange of energy between charges and field.
Assigning negative energy to electrostatic fields explains the repulsion of charges of the same sign and the attraction of opposite charges. The sharing of interaction energy between charged particles implies that the energy of the electrostatic fields is proportional to the energy of the gravitational fields of these particles.
Analysis of the decay of the free neutron makes it possible to derive the creation of the electrostatic fields of the proton and electron from the interaction energy of the gravitational field associated with these two particles.
The interpretation that we propose does not require the emission of an antineutrino of the electron type : the final energy of the electron results from the loss of energy undergone during the separation in the electrostatic field.
In the case of the proton, the limiting radius of the electrostatic field can be identified with the radius measured by diffusion experiments.
The parameters of the field (energy and radius) associated with the proton or electron vary according to the energy of the particles, but are characterised by their product, which is constant. This constancy reflects the constancy of the ratio between the energy frequency of the waves and the refresh rate. This ratio can be likened to the fine structure constant.
Properties of the electrostatic field, Link with the gravitational field