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   XPost: sci.environment   
   From: someone@microsoft.com   
      
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   > Dhu on Gate" wrote   
   >   
   >> What it says is that there is a weak correlation between   
   >> solar flares and tectonic activity here on urth.   
   >   
   > As I said, there are many citations. I cannot do your research for you can   
   > I?   
   >   
   > Why criticize? Medical epidemiology works the same way. Epidemiologists   
   > collect statistics on disease incidence and try to find correlation with   
   > geographic, demographic, environmental factors and whatever. Are you   
   > prepared to criticize fuzzy headed medicine that might save your life?   
   >   
      
   Every Ph.D. is entitled to their own scientific theory. Here is my   
   unpublished theory that I have only shared with my older sibling, a billion   
   dollar space scientist. Earth's gravity is lumpy, a fact exploited by   
   Geophysics to search for minerals. The Greeks taught that the Sun was   
   perfect. It would be a fools mistake to assume that the Sun's gravity is not   
   lumpy. Planetary resonances are the result of weak gravitational   
   perturbations acting over a long time. Lumpy gravity can be described in   
   terms of spherical harmonics. Interaction between Solar gravity spherical   
   harmonics and the Earth's, acting over a long time might be expected to   
   place tectonic stress on Earth resulting in more Earthquakes and more   
   volcanoes.   
      
   This is an anonymous unpublished theory. I would be grateful if some   
   mathematical physicist would steal this idea and flesh it out, using   
   Waterloo Maple or Mathematica. Whereas Einstein's General Relativity is   
   packaged, one would need to start from scratch using Lagrange or Hamiltonian   
   mechanics. Good luck!   
      
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