Sorry Philip, but you lost me here. How would a stationary Earth with an aether spinning around it, produce an equatorial bulge? - Regner Sorry Regner but I expected to lose you on this one as I said in the other post, "On accepted physics he (Regner) will be correct. I will disagree with this assertion on the grounds that it ignores the possibility that inertia is a property of aether reaction. But my rejection canot be backed up by any experiment or theory, that would be acceptable till the aether debate is settled. " However I will simplify the statement you questioned, "How would a stationary Earth with an aether spinning around it, produce an equatorial bulge?" On three points. The first being the innovative controversial one till an aether is acepted. 1. Inertia is a resistance due to mass reacting against the aether, or a moving aether reacting against mass. The effect is identical. ie a relative change of motion with respect to each other. 2. If 1. is true, and if the aether of the cosmos did rotate around the central stationary earth, once every 24 hours, then any mass (matter) "the material earth," being cut by this aether will experience an outward centrifugal force, in the same manner and for the same reason it would if the world was rotating in a static aether. 3. Rotation of a mass is acceleration and thus inertia, which is reflected in 'centrifugal force' It is this force which produces the bulge. The theoretical principle stated in Number 1. is the only possible way that could explain all the appearances, and satisfy the dynamics of both the geocentric and heliocentric positions equally. It truly is the only possible way a geostationary satellite could stay in orbit in a geocentric system. It has to have all the "feelings" of rotation around a gravitational centre, at geosynchronous speed. ie of a rotating earth, or a rotating aether.. Philip. ----- Original Message ----- From: Regner Trampedach To: geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 9:50 AM Subject: [geocentrism] Re: Point d) Sorry Philip, but you lost me here. How would a stationary Earth with an aether spinning around it, produce an equatorial bulge? - Regner philip madsen wrote: So we can chalk up point D as un-resolved, as it proves there is a rotation either of the earth or the aether, but the inertial effect of a rotation nevertheless. The planets rotate in the aether, and their resultant bulge is true. If I spin a model sphere on my table the resultant bulge will be true. The stationary earth alone is cut by the rotating aether and the resulting bulge is true. The geostationary satellite stationary over my place is cut by the rotating aether, and will experience a centrifugal force (bulge) neutralising gravity.. It is all relative. The motions are equally relative. And this is of course true relativity, not the pseudo type that Allen and we is laughin at. Of course its conjecture! Most things scientific are.. Paul insists on it being so. That the apple was attracted down and hit Newtons noggin is pure conjecture.. I can conject it was pushed down on to his head by aether pressure. conjecture (the forming of) a guess about something based on how it seems and not on proof: a presumption.. Philip. ----- Original Message ----- From: Regner Trampedach To: geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 4:33 PM Subject: [geocentrism] Point d) I'll give you point d) for free. d) "No equatorial bulge on the Earth, as would be created in the early rapidly spinning molten Earth "theory". The equatorial bulge of Jupiter is clearly seen." Earth's Equatorial Bulge The Earth has a polar radius of 6356.8km and a equatorial radius of 6378.1km - the Earth is 21.3km larger at the equator than at the poles. I believe that is an equatorial bulge. The ellipticity is (Req-Rpl)/(Req+Rpl) = 0.00335. Remember that the height differences between Mt Everest and the Mariana trench is about 8.8km + 10.9km = 19.7km so the 21.3km equatorial bulge is not insignificant. Comparison of planets of the Solar System name state ellipticity Sid rot per/[h] Eq rot speed/[km/s] Mercury solid 0.0000 1407.6 0.003025 Venus solid 0.000 -5832.5 0.001811 Earth solid 0.00335 23.9345 0.465098 Mars solid 0.00648 24.6229 0.240731 Jupiter gas 0.06487 9.9250 12.571998 Saturn gas 0.09796 10.656 9.871200 Uranus gas 0.02293 -17.24 2.587521 Neptune gas 0.01708 16.11 2.682888 Pluto solid 0.0000 -153.2928 0.013606 'Sid rot per' of that table, is the sidereal rotation period in hours (length of the day on that planet) and negative values means retrograde rotation. 'Eq rot speed' is the rotational speed at the equator of the planet, in km/s. Fig 5. Ellipticity of the planets as function of their equatorial rotation speed, v_eq. Gas giants are in white and solid planets in cyan. Mercury, Venus and Pluto are all bunched up at (0, 0), The dashed lines shows average relations among the two groups. Obviously there is a lot of scatter around these lines which just means there are other factors at play than v_eq - it should also be obvious, however, that v_eq is the most important factor involved. The other major factor, of course, is the acceleration of gravity at the surface of the planet.. Higher surface gravity means smaller ellipticity, since high surface gravity would make the planet rounder. The planets below the respective dashed lines do indeed have higher surface gravities than those above. Other reasons for differences between the Earth and Mars are: 1) The very large Moon means that the Earth has been able to loose angular momentum (rotation) very efficiently - 1000 times faster than Mars which is mostly affected by the Sun (Phobos and Deimos are just too small). So Mars is closer to its original rotation speed than Earth is. 2) The Earth is 1.9 times larger (in diameter) which means it's volume and heat content from the early molten stage would have been 6.6 times larger. The surface from which the planets cool would only have been 3.5 times larger - all in all, the Earth would cool 1.9 times slower than Mars. That means the Earth would have solidified only after a considerable slow-down (it would have started higher up on one of the dashed lines). 3) Earth seems to have had a collision with a Mars sized object about a 100 million years after the Solar System formed, forming the Moon - this would have greatly sped-up the Earth's rotation and remolten at least the outer layers. I realize most of you do not believe in things involving time-scales past 6000 years, so there is no need for you to point that out to me. Conclusions The Earth has an equatorial bulge commensurate with a rotation once per day (see Fig. 5). This is no proof of Earth having such a daily rotation, but do notice how all the planets that rotate much slower than Earth (Mercury, Venus and Pluto) have no measurable bulge. Regards, Regner -------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.518 / Virus Database: 269.21.7/1327 - Release Date: 12/03/2008 1:27 PM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.21.7/1331 - Release Date: 16/03/2008 10:34 AM