From: vitalmis@optusnet.com.au   
      
   Phych wrote:   
      
   > I do not know if this is an existing theory, I   
   > only came up with it today, so please bear with   
   > my ignorance. Consider the moon (since its diameter   
   > is so much smaller than the Earth's and its gravity   
   > is so much less). Lets say we were (hypothetically)   
   > to send a drilling team up there and drill from   
   > surface to the core. What would the gravitational   
   > effect 1 inch from the center or even at the center?   
   > In essence, what anomoly might we find period?   
      
   At the centre of any body, moon, earth, whatever, the gravitational force is   
   zero. This has been known for over three hundred years. An elementary   
   textbook which discusses Newton's law of gravity should show why this   
   happens.   
      
   > The big bang theory postulates the matter came into   
   > being from a single point in space and is forever ex-   
   > panding. I am unaware of any measurements   
   > to prove that the gaps between stars are increasing.   
      
   The gaps between stars aren't increasing, but the gaps between galaxies are.   
   This has been known since the 1920's. An elementary textbook on astronomy   
   which discusses the cosmological red shift will give the details.   
      
   > Perhaps someone can help me with that one. Barring that,   
   > imagine that a singular event was not the case for matter   
   > in the universe, but rather many rips in the time/space   
   > continuum, created perhaps by a vorti powered by some   
   > unbeknownst celestial event in an alternate dimension.   
      
   Hm. You could be thinking of the brane theories. If so Steven Hawking's   
   Universe in a Nutshell might give you a start. If you aren't, it looks as   
   if you have been watching too many third-class science fiction films.   
      
   > Following this, logic, perhaps many of these events occured   
   > and continue to occur (black hole?). It could be postulated   
   > that many of the planets surrounding a star were chunks of   
   > it flung off during its birth, dragging with it a remanant of   
   > that rip in space fabric. Or the planets could be results of   
   > their own births, traveling in close enough proximity to a   
   > nearby star to get caught in its gavitaitional pull.   
      
   The first planets weren't formed until long after the first generation of   
   stars died, and that didn't happen until long after the big bang. The earth   
   wasn't formed until about 9,000,000,000 years after the big bang. Gamow   
   wrote a book entitled The First Three Minutes, a popularisation of the big   
   bang theory, published in the late 1940's IIRC. This gives half the story.   
   Fred Hoyle wrote a popularisation in the 1960's that give the other half,   
   but I can't remember what its title was. A textbook on cosmology will give   
   you the details, but it is unlikely to be elementary.   
      
   > So, Perhaps what we would find at the center of the moon would be   
   > space/time rip, in which case, anything not solid enough to   
   > resist destruction might be sucked into an altenate dimension   
   > with super-pressure. Thus, what we experience as gravity would   
   > be the force of a space time rip trying to close itself.   
      
   I don't think you know what a dimension is. I seem to remember something in   
   Twilight Zone like this, but that was 40 years ago and my short term memory   
   isn't what is was.   
      
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