The Consistency of Inverse-Square Gravitational Force with an Emanation Model

Motivation

Entities may only have causal efficacy at their location (the locality hypothesis). To affect another person, you must send another effect to that person's location: physical contact, sound, or light.

Question

What is the cause of the inverse-square law of gravitational attraction?

Investigation

Assuming uniform and finite emanation per unit area from a sphere, the amount of emanation intersecting some spherical region containing the source reduces inversely with the square of the distance from the source because the area of a sphere is equal to 4π times the square of the radius of the sphere.

Conclusion

An emanation model for gravity is consistent with the inverse-square dependence of the gravitational force on distance from the source.

Comments

There is no evidence of an gravitational emanation being depleted by a massive object over time.

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