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   From: f00@0f0.00f   
      
   Dawn Flood wrote:   
   > 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%20Carro   
   l&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   
      
   if you want the pdf, i can get it. i can get anything online.   
      
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