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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   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.   
      
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