What is the modern understanding about Four Great Elements and Reality?

The 4 elements are: pruṭhavī-dhātu - solidity or attraction. This holds something together. You feel this as tightness, pressure in the body. āpa-dhātu - liquidity or relative motion. teja-dhātu - heat or energy. Body temperature, vibrations in the body you feel in meditation. Difference of temperature in and out meditation. vāyu-dhātu - expansion or repulsive forces. You feel this as pulsation or expansion and contraction in the body or flow of respiration, rumbling gasses in the belly and passing of wind. ---------------- So can we expand our knowledge about "Four great elements" in Buddhism using the knowledge that we have already understood by other means?