|  A very interesting point of view... -
04-12-2006, 08:37 PM
This morning when I decided to post the possible scenario of what could happen to the Earth's gravity in case the moon would desintegrate I forgot to add a small detail. Here is what I forgot to post:
" If we board a special plane flying at high-altitude [just as the astronauts do in their trainnings] gravity will diminish with the distance from the surface... right? If we were sitting on top mount Everest we would not notes a big change of gravity at all except for some missing oxigen and severe cold. But what would happen to the actual LEVEL OF SOIL OR GROUND making for the Earth's surface in case the moon would "contribute" with some billions of tons of dust and rocks? Assuming the Earth's mass increased to such altitude to reach the altitude where those planes fly with astronauts... Wouldn't be LOGICAL to imagine that gravity will be felt just with the exact strength that they do inside those special aircrafts? ... Meanning ZERO?
In this special case all the mass of the Earth would not be capable of "warping-curving and twisting" the fabric of space-time well enough to keep our feets on the ground (!)..."
Gravity gets weaker with the square of the distance following the same rules as electromagnetism is this so? If the Earth's surface had been ELEVATED hundreds of meters with the inclusion of rocks, dust and lunar garbage... what would happen to gravity now? Do you get my point this time?
Why is the secret reason the moon spins around the Earth?
Have you ever seen those new metallic toys made of little steal balls that keep rotating as if they will never stop moving around?
That is the same principle the moon keeps rotating and never stops. The only way the moon would "try" to keep up with the imbalance of mass due to the Earth's insuficient amount of mass is by spinning in circles around the planet looking for an equilibrium of the overall momentum. Since that equilibrium is unstable due to the non-uniform action of the sun across time this moving around of the moon seems to be there for a long long time.
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