4.1. The Process of Discovering the Point of Gravity:
On Sunday, March 30, 2025, Yan Zijie (18 years old, a sophomore in high school back then) was on holiday. At around 16:00 in the afternoon, he made an appointment with his father Yan Huixiang, to go to the public bathhouse to take a bath. During the bath, Yan Zijie and his father talked about the problem of the radius of the gravitational field being uncertain. This problem has troubled his father for more than a year and remains unsolved. The main reason is the indeterminate position of the gravitational field interaction point between the two objects.
Yan Zijie has always had good grades in physics, but he has never learned what a gravitational field is. His father explained the definition of a gravitational field to him: Every object with mass in nature is surrounded by an invisible, massless gravitational field with the center of mass as the center of the circle, which extends outward uniformly and infinitely at the speed of light at all times (known as the gravitational field). The gravitational field is a real field substance that can be measured by instruments, just like the electromagnetic field. The gravitational field is the medium that transmits gravity. He further introduced his father's new gravitational field theory. When the gravitational field of one object extends outward, the gravitational field of another object also extends outward. When the two invisible gravitational field spherical materials maintain zero distance, gravity is generated, and then propagates toward the center of mass of each other using the gravitational field as a medium. The current problem is that the position of the interaction point of the two gravitational field spheres cannot be determined, that is, the gravitational field radius of the two objects cannot be determined. The gravitational field radius is the distance from the center of mass of an object to the interaction point of the gravitational field of the two objects.
When his father introduced the problem he encountered, Yan Zijie thought for a moment and said: "Dad, I know the answer. The radii of the two gravitational fields are equal, and the point of action of the two gravitational field spheres is located in the middle of the two centers of mass." His father was surprised at the moment. This problem had troubled him for more than a year. During this period, he also discussed this problem with many netizens including doctors and masters. Some netizens even used the Schwarzschild formula to solve the problem but failed.
Then, his father couldn't wait to ask him how he knew the answer. After his detailed explanation, his father finally realized that he had made a mistake, that is, he mistakenly believed that if the mass of the object is large, the gravitational field radius will be large, and the mass will be proportional to the gravitational field radius. In fact, this is not the case. When analyzing the movement of two objects, only the mass of the object is considered, instead of the volume of the object. [
15]The two objects can be treated as point masses. Specifically, the gravitational fields of these two mass points extend outward at the speed of light at all times. At the moment when the spherical substances of the two gravitational fields emitted by the two mass points at a certain instant collide with each other at zero distance, the two gravitational field spheres have the same volume, this volume is independent of the mass and volume of the objects themselves, and only the intensity of the gravitational field is correlated with mass. Such a deduction leads to the conclusion that the radii of the gravitational fields of the two objects are equal, and the point of interaction between the two gravitational fields is located in the middle position of the line connecting the two objects' centers of mass.
Yan Huixiang has always been the idol Yan Zijie admired deeply. This time, he unexpectedly said to his father for the first time: "Dad, you’re not quite up to this". However, the dad was not angry when he heard it. Instead, he excitedly told his son: "Son, you have made a great contribution. You found the gravitational field mutual action point between the Sun and the Earth, which is the center-of-mass connecting line between the Sun and the Earth." That night, the father was so excited that he couldn't sleep all night.
4.2. Demonstration:
Assume that the gravitational field of an object with a center of mass of M extends outward infinitely and uniformly at the speed of light at all times with a particle as the center of the circle, and the gravitational field of another object with a center of mass of m also extends outward infinitely and uniformly at the speed of light at all times with a particle as the center of the circle. When the gravitational fields of the two objects are kept at zero distance, the two invisible spherical field materials collide to generate gravitational force F, which propagates toward the center of mass of the other party with the gravitational field as the medium. The gravitational forces generated by the two objects are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction. (See Fig. 1 for details)
When studying the movement of two objects in physics, usually only the mass of the objects is considered, instead of the volume of the objects. [
15]The method used also involves first studying the state of the two objects at a certain moment, and then studying the process. Here, the two objects with masses M and m can be treated as point masses.
At time A, when the gravitational fields of the two particles M and m extend outward at the same speed of light, the two gravitational field spheres emitted by the two particles collide with each other, generating a gravitational force, which propagates toward the center of mass of the other party with the gravitational field as the medium. Then, the two gravitational field balls still extend infinitely outward at the speed of light. The extension process will inevitably merge with each other's gravitational field balls. The fusion process does not generate gravity, but only transmits gravity. Even if the fusion process encounters the gravitational field ball emitted by the other object at the next moment, it will only merge and will not generate gravity. That is to say, a gravitational field ball launched by particle M at time A can only have one chance to collide with a gravitational field ball launched by particle m at time A to generate gravity. At the moment of collision, the two gravitational field balls launched by the two particles are equal in volume and their gravitational field radii are also equal.
Let the gravitational field radius of the two particles be r
1 and r
2 respectively, then:
where c represents the speed of light in vacuum, t represents the time from time A to the collision of the two gravitational field balls, and r represents the distance between the centers of mass of the two objects.
According to formula (9), it can be concluded that the interaction point of the gravitational fields of the two objects is located in the middle of the line connecting the two centers of mass, that is, 1/2r.
As the gravitational field balls emitted by the two mass points have the same characteristics, similarly, at time B, the two gravitational field balls emitted by mass points M and m will also collide in the middle of the line connecting the two centers of mass to generate gravity. This collision point is the point of action of gravity. By analogy, gravity will be generated in this way at moments C, D, E, and so on until the entire movement process, that is, the interaction point of the gravitational fields of two objects at any moment is located in the middle of the line connecting the centers of mass of two objects.
If these action points at all times are connected, the orbit of the gravitational field interaction point of the two objects is formed. [
16]Taking the Earth's movement around the Sun as an example, the Earth's orbit around the Sun is an ellipse, and the gravitational interaction points of the two at any time are in the middle of the line connecting their centers of mass. Then, connecting the gravitational field interaction points at all times in the cycle will also form an elliptical orbit of the gravitational field interaction points, but the circumference of this orbit is half of that of the Earth's orbit around the Sun. The orbit formed by the interaction point of the Sun-Earth gravitational field is composed of countless "Yan Zijie Points," and this orbit can also be referred to as the "Yan Zijie Orbit." A schematic diagram of the orbit is shown in
Figure 5.
Next, we mathematically calculate the orbit of the interaction point of the solar-terrestrial gravitational fields (Yan Zijie Orbit):
Let the mass of the Sun be M (M≈1.989×10
30kg) with its center of mass at Point A, and the mass of the Earth be m (m≈5.972×10
24kg) with its center of mass at Point B. Let Point C be the midpoint of the line connecting the centers of mass of the Sun and the Earth, and Point O be the center of mass of the Sun-Earth system. Both the Earth and the Sun revolve around Point O along elliptical orbits. For the Earth’s orbit, let the semi-major axis be a (a≈1.496×10
11m), the eccentricity be e (e≈0.0167), and the orbital period be T (T≈3.156×10
7s). The gravitational constant is denoted as G (G=6.674×10
-11N.m
2/kg
2). [
17,
18]The mean anomaly of the Earth, which is a polar angle varies with time, is defined as θ(t), where θ(t)=ωt=T2π (ω represents the mean angular velocity). [
19]
A two-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system is established with the center of mass O of the Sun-Earth system as the origin, which coincides with the plane of the Earth’s revolution. Since Point C is the midpoint between the centers of mass of the Sun and the Earth, the coordinate equation of Point C can be derived from the midpoint coordinate formula as follows:
where b represents the semi-minor axis of the Earth's elliptical orbit. Equation (10) can be split into two separate formulas, namely:
Rearranging the above equations yields:
According to Kepler’s First Law, [
20]we can obtain the following:
Substituting Equation (15) into Equation (14) results in:
Substituting Equations (13) and (16) into Equation (17) gives:
Rearranging Equation (18), we obtain the orbit equation of the interaction point of the solar-terrestrial gravitational fields, which is also referred to as the Yan Zijie orbit equation:
Note: The orbit of the interaction point of the solar-terrestrial gravitational fields is a closed small ellipse. Its semi-major axis is aC=1/2a, which is half of the semi-major axis of the Earth’s orbit; its semi-minor axis is bC=, which is half of the semi-minor axis of the Earth’s orbit; and its eccentricity is eC=e, which is identical to the eccentricity of the Earth’s orbit. This orbit is only correlated with the Earth’s orbital parameters and is independent of the mass ratio between the Sun and the Earth.
The principles of the four basic forces are the same, and they are all generated by the interaction between force fields.[
9] On this basis, it can be inferred that the force field interaction point of electromagnetic force, strong force, and weak force is also located in the middle of the line connecting the mass of center of the two objects, that is, 1/2r. (See Fig. 2, Fig. 3 and Fig. 4 for details)
4.4. Equation of the Perpendicular Bisecting Plane
Definition: In three-dimensional space, the equation corresponding to the plane that passes through the midpoint of the line connecting two mass points and is perpendicular to this line is called the equation of the perpendicular bisecting plane, also referred to as the plane equation. It is primarily used to describe the locus of all spatial points that are equidistant from the two mass points. The force fields of the four fundamental interactions are all excited from point sources and propagate outward at the speed of light c at all times. Taking
Figure 1 as an example, the derivation of the equation of the perpendicular bisecting plane is provided below:
In
Figure 1, at a certain moment, two objects with masses M and m respectively excite a spherical gravitational field matter from their centers of mass, which propagates outward at the speed of light c. The distance between the centers of mass of the two objects is r, the radius of the gravitational field of the object M is r
1, and the radius of the gravitational field of the object m is r
2. The three-dimensional coordinates of any arbitrary point on the spherical surface of the gravitational field of the object M are denoted as (x
1,y
1,z
1), whereas those of any arbitrary point on the spherical surface of the gravitational field of the object m are denoted as (x
2,y
2,z
2). At an arbitrary moment t, the spherical surface equations (equations describing the coordinate positions of all points on the spherical surface) of the two gravitational field spheres are respectively given as follows:
Combining and rearranging Equations (20) and (21), we obtain:
By transforming and rearranging Equation (22), we obtain the equation of the mid-perpendicular plane between the gravitational field spheres of the two objects:
Note: The mid-perpendicular plane equation defines a unique plane in three-dimensional space where every point is equidistant to both mass points. This plane serves as the central symmetry plane between the two masses, geometrically representing the "Yan Zijie’s middle principle." Remarkably, the force fields of all four fundamental interactions conform to the mathematical description provided by this mid-perpendicular plane equation.