" All non-metric theories of gravitation have been ruled out?"
We don't know that, we haven't the slightest idea what that even means Thomas. I'll bet there's maybe 5 or 6 people on this forum that have any idea what that means. You're provoking the responses that you are seeing as piled on attacks because you're making whole sale claims which are only based on theoretical constructs which are not understood and not even explained with any meaning at all!
I asked you to describe space, figuring you could do that in a meaningful way according to what this metric theory of space is, and so that you could give us an image of what this "Metric" is supposed to look like. I didn't get any meaningful answer so I will do it and you can correct or expand upon this. * Note, I'm giving you plenty of room here to correct/expand/ect.
Now, is it not the truth that in reality metric theories of space are factually nothing more than an arbitrary mathematical model describing space as an interconnected lattice of tetrahedron shape's? However, my question is then why would this be necessary: Why an interconnected lattice work of space in tetrahedron shapes?
So you see first you have describe metrics in a visual format so that people have that image in their mind. Then you have describe why it's is this image. The you have to explain the origins of this idea as being derived from geometry, and hence the reason for the word metric is that it is derived from a geometric description of space?
Now I'm sorry you have to do this because I know this isn't your fault specifically. This is the fault of idiots destroying meaning with the English Language with Gibbonics, or monkey speak, because it's not metrics is it? It's the geometry of space that's being assigned a mathematical model, and so why is that necessary; so that we can possibly predict behavior of energy in space and so forth right? All good and fine, but now how in holy hell did it end up being a fricking tetrahedron shape? That's something I'd like to know. Is it because space is primarily composed of hydrogen and helium?
I don't know why it's so difficult for science idiots to grasp simple communication concepts but they do have a hell of time trying to explain things so that ordinary people can understand what in the hell they are blathering about.
Which by the way, you know how much freaking time and energy it took me to just get enough understanding of what space metrics was so that I myself could visualize it, and just so that I could then give a description of what this jabbering monkey speak was all about? Metric of space?
What the hell is so damn hard that any science major can't describe space metrics in a visual format? Christ it's like trying to break the Japanese Purple Code or some shit. Only to find that these assholes have been describing the geometry of space using half the descriptive linguistics normally associated the meaning of the word geometric, and evidently figuring that as a mathematical model of space it made economical sense to rob half the letters of the descriptive meaning of geometric, figuring in some perverted concept that this then somehow implied it was mathematical!
Contemporary science has only it's self to blame for the back lash it's getting. Nobody want's to waste time and that's what this shit is: It's time wasting by a bunch of idiots who have been free wheeling with creative linguistics and inventing words to describe what's already conventionally understood as something completely un~associated. I think that to most people if you said metrics they would think of a measuring stick, like say a yard stick or a metric meter, and probably not of a mathematical model of a geometric form, which btw is not even mentioned what it hell that might be: A complete mystery needlessly created by idiot savants who have no business creating new words, let alone evidently trying to explain what these words supposedly refer to. Now I don't know about anyone else but that's not my idea of precision which I think is a goal of science generally speaking.
Don't challenge me on this because I'll just bet that if I pull out my 1970 or 1936 dictionary that's over a foot thick there's not a mention of the word metric except as a form of measure.
So now that we have finally understood that the metrics of space is a mathematical model a damned tetrahedron, which isn't yet explained, we can move to why it is so is due to Quantum Theory, and in which it says that this now defined geometry of space is seeded with oscillating mass~less Higgs particles, oscillating along a chiral tetrahedral vacuum lattice, and oh yes, BTW, this lattice is made up of tetrahedron shapes. Chiral we can get in to latter as yet more nonsensical invented hyper~crank head science speak.
Further, according to this quasi~science of so called quantum physics, this then explains gravity by means of the ability to transfer Photon and Graviton information in bunches of oscillations, and which move through the vacuum lattice with the local (mass related) speed of light. How, precisely this explains gravity I have not yet determined myself, but assume it has something to do with dissymmetry of movement.