Not sure you're addressing the issue at-hand.
You said: 'Explain clearly how your 'attracting forces' could logically operate on matter only external to the disk but not on matter within the disk itself.'
I don't see the OP implying that; I think you are
inferring it.
The OP's statement:
Pretend for the moment, that the OP's fictional force is gravity, but he does not know it. Gravity will attract things from outside the disc. That does
not imply it won't attract parts within the disc itself.
But I may be reading the wrong parts of your post. Feel free to clarify.
The rest of your post #37 seems to take a turn into energy conservation.
I don't see how that's "destroying energy". Nature is full of self-opposing forces. Examples:
- An electromagnet produces magnetic forces that inhibit current flow. The byproduct is heat.
- The compaction of a massive body such as a star produces heat which causes expansion that resists the compaction (and an lead to supernovae).
For all we know the OP's force, acting on the disc, produces heat as a byproduct. Thus, it does not "destroy energy".