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To: FaultLine who wrote (9586)	12/17/2000 12:54:15 AM
From: James F. Hopkins	Respond to of 22706

Sometimes I even scare me. -------- This is longer than I intended and boring as hell. But being I typed it I'll post it then file it away for later editing. There is a scary part to it. The Tick Tock of the clock is an abstract we use to communicate time but we all live in a different time as time is never really the same at any two different places. But then again I'm not sure if Time moves at all or if we are just adrift in it. Who knows for sure ? --------------- Any way when I'm out on the boat and looking at the stars I do know that what I'm seeing took a long time to get to me, and that point of light is really history hell even the light from the sun takes 8 of our minutes to get here. The real sun is always about 8 minutes in front of the sun we see, I sure would like to set up an experiment some day to see if "GRAVITY" out runs the speed of light I know how to do it using the sun but I don't have the resources. ------------ Back to seeing history ,if we see across time when looking at a star the time we see is all behind us but what's in front we can't seem to see. It might be good that we can't too. ------------- You do know they say the universe is expanding.. Quasars are racing away at the speed of light.. Here comes the scary part. If a Quasar was rushing at us at the speed of light we could not see it until it arrived. Astronomers will still see the universe as expanding long after it stops. They will see it expanding for years & years even after it has started to collapse. If the collapse then picks up the same speed as they see the expansion it will arrive with out any warning as we can never see something that's coming straight at us no matter how big if it's moving towards us at the speed of light,not even with radar. The bottom line is; this world and every thing we know about it could end at any time by complete surprise and in the wink of an eye. -------- That's why I would like to test and see if the SUNS gravity arrives before it's light. PS I am a sort of mad closet scientific who never got a degree and it may be a good thing I haven't had the resources to carry out certain experiments. FWIW I know it would be easy to change the orbit of space ship earth in relation to the sun ( move us closer or further away ) just by nudging the moon a little bit. The moon BTW is not our satellite , we are really locked in a twin ( duel planet) type orbit. The moon is more our sister planet than a satellite. Just in case any one gets the idea of adjusting our orbit via the moon in the future I better mention it works backward from the way most would first think. Gravity is relative to density , and the ( earth moon ) center of gravity is seen by the sun as one; also the density is increased when the moon moves closer and decreased as the moon moves away. Think of the suns gravity like a rubber band with both the earth and moon attached to the end of the rubber band as if they were one rock ( as that is the way the sun sees it ) this one rock made of ( moon earth) is being twirled round the sun and both that speed and the weight of the rock determine our mean distance from the sun; the weight is a factor of density. Move the moon out enough and the density will decrease and the rubber band will pull us closer. Move the Moon towards us if you want increase the density to move us away from the Sun. ----------- This may come in handy to someone in the future as our orbit is not as stable as every one tends to think. --------- BUT It may not matter at all if a Quasar is headed at us. :-) If any one knows what I'm talking about I wish they would tell me, but I know that if they at least think they do then they likely already know that the Moon is very slowly moving away from us. It's nothing to panic over even though it will cause us to move closer to the sun as we may need to do that any way as the earths core cools off. A more pressing problem is what are we going to do about messing up our very very thin skin of atmosphere that protects us from space as well as serving the basic needs of all our food chain. ------ :-)