"Bill Sheppard" wrote in message...
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From Painius:

...what if actual energy of flowing space
is equal to "m" times the speed of
gravity? (or more accurately, the speed
of space itself)...
E = m(c x 2 x 10^20)²
or...
E = mVg²
...where Vg is the so-called "speed of
gravity" (actually the speed of flowing
space)?

As was just stated in another thread, what this is describing is _speed
of gravitational charge_ which is functionally instantaneous
irrespective of distance. This is distinct from velocity of spatial flow
itself. Space flow into Earth's surface, for instance, is equivalent to
escape velocity, or 11.2 km/s (about 7 mps). Same with any celestial
body; speed of inflow at surface datum is equal to that body's escape
velocity.

I wanted to discuss that last part separately.

How does space know to decelerate to any given
speed as it enters the gravity well of any given
mass? It slows down to 7 miles/sec at Earth's
surface, and this figure is greater for, say, the
planet Jupiter, and it's a smaller figure for, say,
the planet Mars.

So how does flowing space "know" to slow down
to a certain speed for any given amount of mass?

And how slow is it going as it enters an atom?

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