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   From: Dawn.Belle.Flood@gmail.com   
      
   On 9/26/2025 2:39 PM, David Dalton wrote:   
   > On Sep 26, 2025, jojo wrote   
   > (in article):   
   >   
   >> David Dalton wrote:   
   >>> On Sep 24, 2025, jojo wrote   
   >>> (in article):   
   >>>   
   >>>> 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.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> you were in school?   
   >>>   
   >>> I’ve spent many years in university and got a Ph.D.   
   >>> in Earth Sciences (Geophysics) in May of 2018,   
   >>> basically applied mathematics applied to theoretical   
   >>> seismology. It involved some theory of seismic anisotropy   
   >>> and of surface seismic waves. And I might consider that   
   >>> there might be waves on a 3D manifold of a 4D space   
   >>> that would be analogies of surface waves on a 2D surface   
   >>> of a 3D halfspace, such as Love waves.   
   >>   
   >> that's cool, does it have any predictions?   
   >   
   > I haven’t worked out the theory yet,   
   >   
      
   No predictions == no hypothesis.   
      
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