XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.sys.mac.system   
   From: yclept@outlook.com   
      
   Andrews  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.   
      
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   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.   
      
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