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George Dishman wrote:

In that case you have increased the acceleration due
to gravity here on the Earth's surface as predicted
by the Schwarzschild Metric by over 38 orders of
magnitude.
IMO getting the Earth's surface gravity wrong by 38
orders of magnitude is enough to falsify it.


I appreciate the fact that it is difficult at first to see things from
the radically different perspective of a paradigm that involves
discrete self-similar space-time ( www.amherst.edu/~rloldershaw ).

The Discrete Fractal paradigm states that the appropriate value for the
gravitational "constant" at the surface of the Earth (within a stellar
scale system, but *not* within an atomic scale system) is G = 6.67 x
10^-8 cgs. The DF paradigm does not get "Earth's surface gravity wrong
by 38 orders of magnitude". You need a better understanding of the DF
paradigm in order to know what it predicts, and why it does so.

No, I think you need to understand that the mass of the
Earth is mainly in the form of protons and neutrons. The
gravity at the surface is nothing more than the sum of
all those myriad tiny contributions.

The "constant" G(n-1) applies to a space-time region that is within an
atomic scale system, but not within a subquantum scale system.

A meaningful discussion of the Discrete Fractal paradigm requires that
both parties understand the paradigm. Before you post again, please
take more time to familiarize yourself with the DF paradigm. If
something is unclear, I welcome questions. Let's talk about one thing
at a time, and do so in a more cooperative scientific spirit. Emotion
interferes with reason, as pointed out with such clarity by Spinoza.

This isn't about emotion, it is simple arithmetic. If
you increase G for a proton then you increase the effect
it has at all distances. The gravitational acceleration
at 6378 km from a single proton in deep space would be
38 orders of magnitude greater than the conventional
value with your value of G. The effect of a lone neutron
would be similarly increased since they have nearly the
same mass. The sum of the acceleration over all the
protons and neutrons in the Earth must also be increased
by that same factor. That is the result of applying reason
and science to your proposal.

George