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   From: Dawn.Belle.Flood@gmail.com   
      
   On 9/23/2025 2:03 PM, David Dalton wrote:   
   > On Sep 23, 2025, Henderson wrote   
   > (in article ):   
   >   
   >> David Dalton wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>  From a long post by me to the fumbling-towards-ecstasy malling   
   >>> list on January 5, 1995, during early waxing crescent:   
   >>>   
   >>> “...the sun is like the small bright flame at the top of a tall dark   
   >>> candle much of which has little effect on local gravity but much   
   >>> effect at large distances, and I bet effect on local gravidity. ...”   
   >>>   
   >>> Of course I meant a higher-dimensional candle, and as noted   
   >>> on my Salmon on the Thorns web page I did get a peek into   
   >>> higher dimension(s) during my sun stare (which was partly   
   >>> inspired, or predicted, by Sarah McLachlan's song Into the Fire).   
   >>>   
   >>> I also have considered the possibility of space tectonics   
   >>> as an analogy to plate tectonics.   
   >>>   
   >>> Sarah McLachlan has a new song Gravity but it is not   
   >>> about the above. :-)   
   >>   
   >> Thank you for explaining that, David.   
   >   
   > Well, it certainly isn’t explained yet, and in order to explain   
   > it I will have to review my differential geometry. I did get   
   > 100 in one graduate differential geometry course based   
   > on a Classical Mechanics book by V.I. Arnold, but the   
   > following year, off one of my meds, I probably should   
   > have flunked another graduate differential geometry   
   > course based on a book by Shcutz, but the profs gave   
   > me a 75, partly due to class participation, though that   
   > is the lowest mark I have ever gotten in a math course.   
   > But in order to explain the above I will have to study   
   > that book again.   
   >   
      
   Why not read books on General Relativity?  I am working my way through   
   Professor Sean Carroll's book titled "General Relativity".  Good copies   
   at reasonable prices are available here:   
      
   https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=Sean%20Carroll   
   cm_sp=SearchF-_-home-_-Results&ref_=search_f_hp&sts=t&tn=General%20Relativity   
      
   A PDF version is (or at least was) available online, but you did not   
   hear about that from me!   
      
   Dawn   
      
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