(Scott commented)...
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Dick,
You are missing part
of the picture. The Earth as a whole pulls objects to itself
until a resistance is encountered by the object. The general
direction of this motion is toward the center of the earth or as I
call it, the center vector. You compare a hill but I will use
something much larger like a mountain. A mountain is an
enormous amount of mass seemingly but it it were out in space and you
compared its gravitational attraction to a planetary body such as the
earth, the mountains gravitational pull on an object would be
negligible. I am not saying that a force might not
exist from the mountain, it is just that
this force is overshadowed by that of the rest of the earth itself,
so, no, this particular argument doesn't stand as an adequate
illustration against the principle of gravity being a product of
masses inversely squared. If we find reasons to abandon
traditional thinking we must come up with stronger evidences which
science will find fool proof. Otherwise, we are just wasting
our time.
Scott
Dick's reply to Scott -
Scott...
I don't think I am "missing part of
the picture."
Do we both agree that earth
is a NOT solid ball, but a HOLLOW sphere with an outside
crust? Do we agree that physicists may be INCORRECT in
their standard assumption that earth has a solid iron-nickel core
surrounded by another ball of molten iron, plus additional thick rock
and/or molten masses extending toward the surface? Do we agree
that orthodox physicists may be INCORRECT assuming that earth's
"source of gravity," its magnetic "pulling" center, is in
that assumed "magnetic" iron-nickel core?
**If we agree about the above points,
isn't the great majority of earth's MASS located in its relatively
thin crust? ** If so, Isn't it really the crust's MASS,
not "the earth as a whole" that is probably "pulling" objects
to itself? Whether you think it is the crust's elemental MASS as a
whole - or a magnetic "center" area deep within the crust -
isn't earth's "source of gravity" found IN the crust
and not at earth's center?
Repeating this again: In
my 1948 Britannica, the science writer on earth's geology and
gravity, noted that scientists (at the time of his writing) had found
earth's source of gravity is not at earth's center, but
appears to originate some 50 miles deep, "evenly around the entire
globe." I was astounded when I read that. To me it was a
possible verification of James Churchward's assertion that earth's
source of gravity originates somewhere below 50 miles deep, at his
theorized "Friction" line where the hard cold outside crust
grinds against a slower moving molten layer which can cool no
further.
For other reasons than Churchward,
Cater also thinks earth's "source of gravity" is to be found at
(or beyond?) 50 miles from the surface.
Scott, even though your comment
paragraph above seems to support certain "traditional"
(orthodox) beliefs and assumptions, I'm sure you have your own
objections since you also think, as I do, that our planet is probably
hollow.
If you haven't yet thoroughly
read DAVID PRATT'S online book about EARTH and his website treatise
of GRAVITY, please do. His analyses of traditional and
non-traditional beliefs on the subjects are excellent. He also
explains PARI SPOLTER'S assertions that calculating any MASSES is
unnecessary to determine gravity effects between two bodies. She
provides simplified formulas that seem to work, without consideration
of apparent mass. And Pratt also presents many valid experiments that
cast doubt on the overall accuracy of Newton's notions about gravity.
Read them and judge for yourself. I'm posting the Pratt URLs again at
the end of this email.
Pratt, as I understand him, also
pointed out that NASA scientists, relying on Newton's laws,
"masses" and traditional beliefs about gravity, etc., within
our solar system, successfully plot accurate flights. That
seems to knock the idea of Earth or some planets being hollow and
most mass being in a crust. But, Pratt theorized: if ALL the
planets in our solar AND the Sun, are also Hollow, NASA's
calculations for space flights would still function perfectly.
Pratt's reasonable idea, seems to
support Lamprecht's, Cater's, and Dean's beliefs that Mars, Venus and
other planets are probably also hollow, as they believe earth to
be. Although Dean (and you?) agree about a hollow condition for
Earth, Mars, Venus, etc, Dean still seems to favor the idea that our
Sun is a HOT ball of Plasma Gas.
But Pratt's observation, that NASA's
space flights could still function if ALL our planets were hollow,
INCLUDED THE SUN. Without knowing it, Pratt seems to give
credence to Churchward's suggestions; that all LIVE bodies (rotating
on an axis), planets and Suns, are probably constructed similarly,
with a relatively cool and hard outer crust, and a hot molten layer
beneath (forming a Frictiion line) - and a probable HOLLOW
center! If the Sun IS also hollow, how can it still be a ball of
hot gas? Or as one website theorizes, a ball of plasma
lightning?
Scott, I have a memory like a sieve.
Unless I'm constantly referring to a book, I've needed to re-read
some books MANY times over years to recall clearly what I should have
retained from the first reading. Churchward's books included. I
have re-read most of them probably a dozen times! (and
still discover new insights.) If you share any of my tendencies to
forget, especially if not discussing or thinking about a subject for
long periods of time, I suggest you RE-READ all 5 of those Churchward
books you told me you had read. You may find something to agree with
or clear up some of your objections.
Another of Churchward's examples
(aside from the universally talked about apple and tree) that you
seem to have forgotten, was his simple, but illustrative example of a
WALL and a particle of DUST. Like every earthly element, the elements
of the wall and the dust particle are PERMEATED with magnetic and
other forces.
And according to Churchward, at all
times, ALL forces tend to AGGREGATE, to join together.
The volume of forces in the dust
particle is small. The volume of forces permeating the wall is large.
The greater volume of forces in the wall ATTRACT the forces in the
dust particle. Unable to physically leave the elements of the dust
particle, the dust with its small amount of forces, clings to the
wall. SEEMINGLY ONLY, the larger MASS of the wall has attracted
the smaller MASS of the dust particle
Place a grain of sand on the
same wall. The tiny grain of sand immediately slides down the
wall to the floor, as close as it can get to earth's central magnet
below the surface. The wall, (or a MASSive building - OR the smooth
side of a MASSive mountain) does not possess enough volume of forces
to hold the grain of sand against the superior pull of earth's
central magnet. THE source of elemental gravity. Is that a
little better example?
Of course, you can mechanically or
electrically temporarily "charge" a metal bar with a
surplus volume of magnetic forces, and it will defy earth's force of
gravity by holding a metal nail or other metals to it. But not a
wall, building or mountain side, holding a grain of sand.
Scott, please read Pratt's stuff
(URLs listed) below. He's not out to destroy all of Newton's
concepts... but where they may be in error, it should at least be
considered.
P.S. Good to hear
from you again on the list. My wife also asks, was she helpful with
her private notes about dinosaurs?
PART One
by David Pratt...
Gravity and
Anti-Gravity
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dp5/gravity.htm
Part Two by David
Pratt....
Gravity and
Anti-Gravity
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dp5/gravity2.htm
Mysteries of the Inner
Earth
by David
Pratt
May 2001
Part 1: The Solid Earth
Hypothesis
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dp5/inner1.htm
Part 2: The Hollow Earth
Hypothesis
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dp5/inner2.htm
Part 3: Polar Puzzles
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dp5/inner3.htm
Part 4: Mythology, Paradise, and the Inner
World
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dp5/inner4.htm