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Old August 13th 07, 08:02 PM posted to alt.sci.physics.new-theories,alt.astronomy.solar
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If one peels an avocado, sometimes some will be left on the seed. This
will slide around the seed, but will adhere to the seed. Aha!

Maybe there is no gravity. There are shells of space around the sun,
eacn corresponding to an avocado seed, and the planets move around these
sheels, but cannot slip off. If a comet seems to be attracted by the sun's
gravity, it is just temporaily adhering to the shell, which slows it down
for a while, and bends it - all without any force of gravity. So gravity is
not necessarily curved space.

Space is then full of matter, and possibly there are shells of different
densities.

Of course, if the sun and stars actually revolve in shells around the
Earth, this is a little harder to picture, I guess.

On the other hand, space may be an illusion. It may be just a sort of
fill-in-the-blank hallucination. Thus, if a quantum event can go from here
to there without crossing the intervening space, this may be because there
is no intervening space - how does one picture space?

In some higher dimensional geometries, there is more space on the inside
than on the outside, like Dr. Who's phone box. But if there is no space,
then inside and outside may be some kind of cognitive hallucination.

If there is no space, how can gravity be curved space? But I can picture
an Avocado.


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Old August 14th 07, 12:09 AM posted to alt.sci.physics.new-theories,alt.astronomy.solar
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"skddlbyp" wrote in message
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If one peels an avocado, sometimes some will be left on the seed. This
will slide around the seed, but will adhere to the seed. Aha!

Maybe there is no gravity. There are shells of space around the sun,
eacn corresponding to an avocado seed, and the planets move around these
sheels, but cannot slip off. If a comet seems to be attracted by the
sun's
gravity, it is just temporaily adhering to the shell, which slows it down
for a while, and bends it - all without any force of gravity. So gravity
is
not necessarily curved space.

Space is then full of matter, and possibly there are shells of different
densities.



You are close to understanding relativity, but I would loose the avocado
analogy, and refer to how we grid out gravity with respects to Relativity..

Cheers,

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Peter J Schoen
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100 Fold of your output.


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Old August 14th 07, 10:38 PM posted to alt.sci.physics.new-theories,alt.astronomy.solar
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On Aug 13, 12:02 pm, "skddlbyp" wrote:
If one peels an avocado, sometimes some will be left on the seed. This
will slide around the seed, but will adhere to the seed. Aha!

Maybe there is no gravity. There are shells of space around the sun,
eacn corresponding to an avocado seed, and the planets move around these
sheels, but cannot slip off. If a comet seems to be attracted by the sun's
gravity, it is just temporaily adhering to the shell, which slows it down
for a while, and bends it - all without any force of gravity. So gravity is
not necessarily curved space.

Space is then full of matter, and possibly there are shells of different
densities.

Of course, if the sun and stars actually revolve in shells around the
Earth, this is a little harder to picture, I guess.

On the other hand, space may be an illusion. It may be just a sort of
fill-in-the-blank hallucination. Thus, if a quantum event can go from here
to there without crossing the intervening space, this may be because there
is no intervening space - how does one picture space?

In some higher dimensional geometries, there is more space on the inside
than on the outside, like Dr. Who's phone box. But if there is no space,
then inside and outside may be some kind of cognitive hallucination.

If there is no space, how can gravity be curved space? But I can picture
an Avocado.



According to General Relativity, there is more space inside the Sun
than you could fit inside a Euclidian hollow sphere of the same size.

Avocadoes make great sandwiches!

Double-A


 




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