An Attractive Proposition (was - Space Elevator is itpossible?)

Painius wrote, reposting "K.Carson":

How do you measure distance if
space itself is "flowing"?

Hey good point! And how might this figure into the Pioneer anomaly?

Remember that spacetime is non-Cartesian.

Remember that "space-time" itself is the euphamism and surrogate for the
spatial medium. When Uncle Albert kicked out the "aether", something had
to substitute it. Thus the descriptive mathematical construct, the
"schematic" became the surrogate for it.

As spatial energy enters the vicinity of a
Solar system, it begins to accelerate, its
velocity increases, toward the Sun. As it
gets near to a planet, it accelerates into
the planet. It will reach the planet's
"escape velocity" at the same time it
reaches the planet's surface. When this
gravitational energy reaches the Sun, by
then it has accelerated to the Sun's
escape velocity, 617.5 km/sec, at the
time it enters the Sun's surface. At any
time during this flow of gravitational
energy, it's velocity will be equal to the
escape velocity of the object it is
accelerating toward at the altitude the
energy happens to be at that time.

E.g., at the distance of planet Saturn's
orbit around the Sun, the escape velocity of the Sun is 13.6 km/sec.
So when
gravitational energy flows into the area
of Saturn's orbit, the energy's speed has
increased to 13.6 km/sec (give or take a
little due to Saturn's elliptical orbit).

You might wanta elaborate a bit more on this subject per those long,
long discussions on it several y'ars ago.
You raised the point on how the Solar flow at the orbits
of the inner planets manages to slow down to the (lower) inflow velocity
of the planet and not "collide" with the planet. Well, every planet has
its own entrained flow field (EFF) which extends out many radii from the
planet. The EFF is synonymous with its gravity well or gravitational
field. The EFF is the 'reverse starburst' flow field which travels
*with* the planet (thus is "entrained"). It mediates and buffers the
larger Solar flow, bringing the inflow at the planet's surface down to
that planet's median escape velocity (Earh's being 11.2 km/s).
As a side note to this, 'member as to how the EFF also
explains the Michelson Morley null result. MMX was designed to detect a
lateral flow which of course was absent. MMX was blind to a vertical
flow. The null result was entirely consistant with the *entrained*
vertical flow and in fact would be expected.
The EFF also explains stellar aberration (previously
used to 'refute' existance of the "aether").