An Attractive Proposition

Painius wrote, re. the entrained flow field (EFF):

It has to do with all such bodies as the
planets having an "entrained flow field"
(EFF) that exists out to several radii of
the particular body in question. This field gives the planet its own
mass-specific
field of spatial flow that is determined by
the "size of the sink" rather than by the
speed of the overall accelerated flow into the Sun.

Raht on.

When it comes to even smaller masses,
such as John's bod on the surface of the
Earth, i would suppose that the same
EFF effect applies on a more local scale, and that this would be so
right on down
to the atomic level. I'm hoping oc will
either back this up or correct me as he
may deem appropriate. Perhaps... you
might even elaborate more on the EFF
effect?

Sure. A planet's entrained flow field a.k.a. its gravity well or
gravitational field buffers and mediates the larger Solar flow, bringing
it down to the planet's median surface inflow velocity. Thus the Solar
flow does not directly "collide" with the planet. This is the case with
the inner planets where the Sun's inflow velocity is much larger than
the planet's surface inflow velocity.
The entrained flow field is also the reason for stellar
aberration (see Google) and the MMX null result. The entrained vertical
flow is consistant with the null MMX and would in fact be expected.

Your respondant asked something about what
constitutes a "gravitating mass". Hell, any mass free floating in space
is gravitating and has its own miniscule EFF, right down to individual
atoms. But i guess when a mass is sufficienly large to become a partner
in a binary pair, then it's "officially" a Gravitating Mass, as with
binary asteroids.