Gunnar Tomasson
Registered: Oct 2003
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Philip:
Re. the following from your website:
The distance between a planet and the earth is determined by the behavior of the planets and other bodies of matter that may be involved. It is not caused by space and time. The cause is the sum of the behaviors of the zillions of bits that make up the solar system.
The effect of the change in distance between bits is instantanious regardless of the length of that distance. There is no messenger. The effect is called gravitation. The strength of gravitation is called the force of gravitation. Nevertheless, that which we call gravitation is the net attraction between bits. That attraction is the difference beween the attractive force and the repulsive force. The attractive force is slightly stronger than the repulsive force.
When two bodies of matter contain as many negative bits as positive bits, there is a net attraction between the bodies, called gravitation. Basically, it is the attraction of unlikes minus the repulsion of likes.
Brief comments:
The proposition that gravitational interaction is communicated instantaneously would seem to imply that Euclidean Space must be restored to its pre-relativistic position as axiomatic point of departure for cosmological speculation.
As for the mechanics involved, Newton showed that a spherical body will interact gravitationally as if all the matter therein were located at the body's center-point, with the strength of gravitational interaction decreasing with the inverse square of the distance from any other such body.
There is evidence, however, which suggests that this may not be the whole story - I refer here to a report which I came across while researching relates issues in the 1970s.
Briefly, the evidence concerns observed changes in solar flare velocities, which increase in precise DISCONTINUOUS fashion as the flares move away from the solar surface and, again, as they fall back towards it and NOT countinuously as required by the inverse square of the distance rule alone.
Alas, I have misplaced my notes on the subject matter and have not been able to locate further information on the subject matter.
Gunnar
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