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Old 10-November-2003, 01:27 AM
snowflakeuniverse snowflakeuniverse is offline
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Hi Nokton

Thank you for you very diplomatic correspondence.

Paul Dirac published an article which had gravity expressed as a function of time (Hard time finding it in my notes, it was not a very well accepted paper since matter had to be increased in order to maintain celestial balance, He got a lot of flak for that)

If the expansion of space is a uniform consistent property of the universe, meaning that matter itself is part of that expansion, then the density of all things becomes less over time. If the earth were twice its size, with the same amount of matter, the surface gravity would be reduced by a quarter. This is a much different type of time/gravity relationship than what is usually associated with clocks or time running slower when in part of a “denser” (my term) or more highly curved region of space-time.

This proposed loss of density has profound implications regarding the evolution of stars. If in the past the sun were twice as dense, the gravitational force on the sun would be four times as much. Since the rate of energy production from stars is very dependent on pressure, the rate of energy production in the past would have been much greater than we presently assume. Current models of stellar evolution have stars settling in at one location on the Hertzsprung Russell diagram and living rather uneventful lives there for billions of years. The proposed model asserts our sun started of as an incredibly bright blue burning star, and with the decreased effect of gravity, and some loss of fuel, began to cool.

This process will be part of how I explain the energy production found for quasars.

Thankfully yours,
Snowflake