[Spiral Path]

Hello, bottomlander -

Originally Posted by bottomlander Dear Spiral Path, Readers should have recognized your professionality through your lines of thinking and wording.

Thanks a lot for those kind words. I feel honoured by them.

1) Sorry that I hadn't read your article(s). The following is just my wild guess on this topic inspired by you. Variable gravity G seems astonishing. However, its percentage of variation should be so small that its effect can only be (and better to be) tested by peaks of earthquakes. Our Earth is a big mass ready to us. And we have enough data on earthquakes. (To employ other masses needs too hgih precisions and might have erroneous interpretations.)

As I am going to try to explain in one of my next blogs, a variable G will actually affect the whole Earth. An increasing G will actually make the Earth shrink (thus leading to a crumpling of the Earth's crust and subduction earthquakes) and a decreasing G will make the Earth expand (thus leading to earthquakes on the spreading mid-oceanic ridges and in rift valleys).

Yes, we have excellent and publicly easily accessible earthquake data for the past 100 years or so and these only enable me to make my evaluations so accurate, especially since every earthquake has a different signature (i.e. other parameters, like the direction, dip and latitude of the main fault plane, all have to be taken into account). Needless to say that for this reason alone these evaluations take thousands of hours of computer time, especially with a small and outdated machine like mine. For good predictions I most definitely need government support.

Actually, there are many things weirder than Variable gravity G. For example, scientists are perhaps still testing whether the speed of light varies thru long time or not.

Yes, I wouldn't be surprised at all if those scientists will find that the speed of light, too, is variable.

Also, before the concept of gravity being established, if someone pointed out that our Earth was spheric, not flat, there would be too many negative reasons to kill that simple/obvious truth (as revealled long time ago by ancient Greeks already).

Correct. But at least nowadays people who contradict the "voice of authority" will only experience ridicule and humiliation (like I did) and no longer get killed (like it happened a few hundred years ago) along with their own new theory.

2) I am now using the model of rain-like frequent bombardments as the mechanism of gravity. Masses act like shields for another mass to recieve less bombardments and thus attraction resulted. If dark matter or the likes have zonal differences, perhaps when Earth passing different zones periodically, peaks of rainy bombardments should be resulted also. Regards. bottomlander

Yes, I have heard about something similar like you describe some 20 or so years ago, so I guess it may appear plausible. Well, we'll see how it develops - and good luck to you if you continue working with this concept.

Regards, Spiral Path