You wrote;
> If gravity is caused purely by a push (in this case, photon-pressure),
> then how come we continue to be held to the earth even when on the
> night-side of the planet?
You answered your own question, i.e. gravity is caused by photon
pressure.
IMHO it is not photon pressure because we can't make something heavier by
shining a high power laser on it.
Aether is everywhere present and gravity results from its flow into mass.
Ross Tessien is one of the best 'devil in the details' guys that I've yet
read on aether.
If the pressure is everywhere and is continuously flowing into matter, we
should be able to tap into the flow and that's what should concern us
all, rather than debating the highly theoretical ideas of aether.
HOW TO PROVE? HOW TO TAP? HOW TO USE IT TO MAKE OUR LIVES BETTER?
As far as I know at this time, Robert Forwards Casimir force is the proof
that there is indeed a background pressure that pushes masses together.
An electronic device, possibly using a vacuum as in Chernetski and
Correas experiments seems to be the best possible way of tapping into the
aether flow.
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