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

Stand on a bathroom scales & measure
your weight.

Stand on same scales in a cave &
measure your weight again.

Observe how the infalling space gets
captured by the rock above your head
and reduces the weight shown on the
scale.

You're absolutely right OG. Very perceptual of you. The instant the
inflow goes below surface (or datum line), there is now gravitating mass
*behind* (i.e., above) the flow.
Just for purpose of illustration (this was done in
discussions with Painius prior to your and Zinni's appearance on the
NG), take a column of spatial flow 12" in diameter. It's flowing
vertically into the surface, accelerating to 11.2 km/sec, (Earth's
escape velocity) at the instant it hits surface datum. As soon as it
goes below datum, there is gravitating mass behind and _to the sides_ of
the column, causing it to begin decelertaing and to diverge laterally.
And as you correctly observe, your 'weight' is going to be less below
surface than at surface, and for the reason you stated.
As the column descends deeper and deeper, the more mass
lies behind and to the sides, the more the column diverges and
decelerates, showing less and less directional preferance. Finally at
Eartth center, all directional preferance is lost; 'weight' is zero
while hydrostatic pressure is maximum from all the 'weight' pressing in
from above.
The flow itself is into the seat of the strong force in
the nuclei of all the Earth's constituent atoms. Herein lies the
unification of gravity and the strong force in Wolter's 'Unified Field
of Spatial Flows'. oc

'Lo Bill --

The nuclear "strong force" is believed to exist solely to bond together
all those positively charged protons, thereby overcoming the effects
of the electrical repulsion of these charges. Moreover, scientists at
present believe that the strong force has absolutely no influence out
beyond the confines of the atomic nucleus.

You seem to be saying that the strong force is responsible for the
effects of gravity that we observe? How did Wolter come to this
conclusion? What train of thought led him to connect the strong
nuclear force with gravity?

And it would seem to be a simple matter to show this connection
using mathematics. If the connection is so obvious, then why hasn't
some mathematician somewhere already verified it?

happy days and...
starry starry nights!

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