wrote:

George Dishman wrote:

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.


According to the Discrete Fractal paradigm (
www.amherst.edu/~rloldershaw ) the world works in a way that is
different from the way you think it does. We would agree on the
strength of the gravitational interaction between the Moon and the
Earth and on how that strength is arrived at. Where we disagree is on
the strength of the gravitational interaction within an atomic scale
system. You would say G still applies, whereas I would say G(n-1)
applies.

You can choose whatever vaue of G you like but what
_you_ said was that you didn't have an "Oldershaw
Metric", you were still using the Schwarzchild metric.
That metric defines the gravitational effect at all
distances (greater than the Schwarzchild radius)
resulting from a spherically symmetric mass. If you
want the effect to change with scale then G becomes
a function of radius G(r) and you need a different metric,
you are not using Schwarzchild's any more. I suspect
you will find that it is impossible to do what you want
as a valid solution to GR but that's your problem.

... For those
who like a bit more empirical motivation, the definitive dark matter
predictions/test will let us know nature's verdict on Discrete Scale
Relativity.

Publish your replacement for the Schwarzchild metric
and then it can be tested.

George