[Tina]

Originally Posted by RascalPuff [size=3] Please tell me what you think of this ('gravitational alternative'). Thank you. - RP

One of our members, Spiral Path, has PM me explaining that she cannot post on Forums from her computer she can read forums though and only send PM's. She has asked me to copy her message onto this forum:

Hello, Tina = Unfortunately my computer doesn't seem to allow me to reply to any forum threads, but apparently I am still able to send private messages. So this is my reply to your post in the above mentioned thread: In my opinion, Newton knew exactly what he was taking about when he said that gravitation could be an impelling as well as a repelling force, but I guess he didn't elaborate because he didn't know what kind of forces were involved - as he himself admitted. - Well, after 30 years of studying the problem, I think I have found the solution to it - it's the angular velocity around the other body, coupled with the mass ratio and the distance between the two centers of mass. This law is valid for all particles and accumulatios of particles within the Milky Way galaxy and presumably also beyond. I can't go any further than this in a private message as my explanation would be much too long for it. But if you look at my blog (Spiral Path's blog "Check my logic and my math") as well as my member article on the triggering of earthquakes you may find some clues about my reasoning. I wonder, Tina, would you possibly be kind enough to copy this my message to you into the above thread so that other people who might be interested in this subject can read it too? Thank you! Spiral Path