%0 Journal Article %T Gravitational Acceleration and the Curvature Distortion of Spacetime %A Daywitt W. C. %J Progress in Physics %D 2012 %I HEXIS (Arizona) %X The Crothers solution to the Einstein vacuum field consists of a denumerable infinity of Schwarzschild-like metrics that are non-singular everywhere except at the point mass itself. When the point-mass distortion from the Planck vacuum (PV) theory is inserted into the Crothers calculations, the combination yields a composite model that is physically transparent. The resulting static gravitational field using the Crothers metrics is calculated and compared to the Newtonian gravitational field and the gravitational field associated with the black hole model. %K Einstein vacuum field %K Schwarzschild-like metrics %K Planck vacuum %K Crothers metrics %U http://www.ptep-online.com/index_files/2012/PP-30-06.PDF