Dharma/Dean,
I note that you are speculating on the size and width of the
opening and that you assume a shape of a minimum of 90 miles.
This is quite possible but one must bear in mind that the shape
of the donut or funnel may cause the outer surface dimensions to
be a minimum of probably five or six hundred miles or more.
This is confirmed especially if the the shell is a minimum of 800
miles in width. Jan's speculates that it is perhaps much thicker
than that. If he is correct, then either one has to allow for that
much larger an exterior funnel dimension or the only other alternative
is that the cross section of the aperture is flattened or has a high
eccentricity to it. My program which allows one to design the
polar opening in both 2D and 3D shows this quite clearly.
I recall reading somewhere that someone had a photograph
of the earth that they maintained didn't actually show evidence of
a hole but was a shot taken by an equatorial satellite which happened
to just catch the flattened portion of the top of the world at the right
angle to see that flattening and that it was about 800 miles wide.
This might be some evidence of a hole as many of the early authors
have stated that the presence of a polar aperture has to produce a
flat section on a sphere. This is perfectly logical since any place
where the surface begins to curve inward would depict a chord at
the outermost rim of a donut shaped hole or funnel that was
perpendicular to the center axis of the hole itself.
I should probably check this to verify this to be sure of my
facts. Jan clearly stated that the satellite photographs taken do not
actually prove the evidence of a polar hole or that if there were
such pictures in existence, they have either been held secret or
have been retouched by some sort of computer graphics retouch
program so as to not indicate it.
I wonder if a shot of an equatorial orbit might actually be found
that shows this flattening we always hear about and based upon the
exact position of its orbit one could extrapolate from the extent of such
flattening where the exact center of the hole might be.
Scott
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On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 14:07:10 -0200 "Dean De Lucia" <[email protected]> writes:
Mr. Cater makes a tremendous and significant comment here:
" The central sun would naturally radiate high concentrations of
soft
electrons in all directions. Those whose paths take them close to
the edge
of the opening will encounter much of the Earth's atmosphere. Many
of these
will tend to disintegrate as they pass through the atmosphere. Most
of these
disintegrations will occur some distance above the Earth's surface
as they
leave the opening. Those whose paths are further from the edge,
including
the center, will encounter little or no atmosphere, and thus travel
to outer
space without disintegrating. A ring effect is the result.... "He is saying that the soft particles shooting through the middle of
the
doughnut-shaped opening don't disintegrate, and that this is why the
aurora
takes on a ring-like shape.This means that the air in the middle of the ring-like opening is
thin,
which means that the opening is wide. Rod mentions that the
atmosphere is
significantly thick about 45 miles up. Cater's observation confirms
that the
opening, at the neck, must be at least 90 miles across, let's say 45
on each
side.Dharma/Dean
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