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   David Dalton wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   that's cool, does it have any predictions?   
      
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