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From: John Hill <yclept@outlook.com>
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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2024 09:33:37 -0000 (UTC)
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Andrews <andrews@spam.net> wrote:
> John Hill wrote on Fri, 1 Nov 2024 07:56:58 -0000 (UTC) :
> 
>>> Who cares about the truth?
>> 
>> "The Earth is flat".
>> "No, it not for the following reasons”K".
>> "It's obviously flat, because”K".
> 
> Uneducated people readily & strongly believe that gravity is a force.
> Right?
> 
> But wait... Einstein hypothesized that it's not a force.
> And even Newton thought that the action at a distance was preposterous.
> 
>> Doesn't make any difference to its sphericity.
> 
> I live in mountainous boonies above the Silicon Valley & Monterey Bay
> where, since I'm an octogenarian, I seem to fall down a lot lately.
> 
> So I studied why gravity is so immensely powerful given Einstein said it
> wasn't a force at all but the earth expanding outward at 9.8m/s/s and
> curving spacetime rushing inward at 11km/s - perfectly balancing out such
> that the earth *becomes* a sphere (almost symmetric in sphericity).
> 

As a research physicist by training, profession and inclination I needed to
read no further. I now know that I can safely disregard anything you write.
But I’m in awe of your inventive abilities.

But as a nonagenarian I do understand about falling down! So far I have
been lucky and bounced. Walk carefully and avoid turning round on the spot.

Old John.

-- 
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.