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Old 28-March-2008, 01:02 PM
JimJast JimJast is offline
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Originally Posted by vjk9 View Post
For a model to be seriously considered, it must be compatible with what is observed in astronomy. Predictions based on the model should be consistent with observations which we can now make. If a model makes predictions which future observations show to be true, then the model gains credibility.

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I am familiar with special relativity and some of the basics of general relativity, and I have worked with tensor analysis many years ago.

Classical physics works very well to explain the orbits of planets and moons and our spacecraft, and to get us to the moon and back. Relativity refines our models, making them more accurate. As the distance between two objects is doubled, the gravitational attraction between them is one-forth. As two objects are moved further apart from each other, the gravitational attraction is greater than what existing models would expect.

Within our own solar system, existing models for gravity work very well, however, they become inaccurate as the distance increases between two objects. The greater the distance between two objects, the less accurate existing models for gravity become, and the greater the distance between them, the greater the disparity between the actual gravitational attraction between the objects and the attraction that is predicted by existing models.
Unfortunately for your model, neither the science says that there is such thing in the universe as "gravitational attraction" nor it is detected observationally. This fact alone is enough to reject your model.

You might have been talking about the Newtonian physics which is about 300 years old and proved to be wrong. Even Newton himself didn't believe that it is right, so neither should you.

If you try to modify your model adjusting it to the contemporary gravitational theory (Einstein's) the bast approach seems to be to get acquainted with Einstein's gravitation first and then apply the knowledge to anything that you may come up with. You may start by reading my webpage http://geocities.com/jim_jastrzebski...ravitation.htm and notice that your idea that time runs slower at greater distances fits very well with Einstein's ideas and it has been proposed already. So this is something that you may start working with.

Last edited by JimJast : 28-March-2008 at 01:07 PM. Reason: typo