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Old 03-July-2009, 10:02 AM
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I appreciate your reply. You have a point there but I have limited way of giving my own opinion without your knowledge of the actual articles or topics I just qouted. After all my theory is only a proposal but it is not yet final, I still continuing to research on it to give a supporting evidences. Still, thanks a lot.. Until next week, on my free time...
You don't really need to have access to any articles to notice that we are not accelerating off the surface f the earth towards the sun at several thousand g. It is reasonably self-evident.

There is nothing wrong with coming up with interesting theories about how things work. There are several common ideas that a lot of people have before formal study, including that we see by our eyes emitting something that strikes the world around us, for example.

With gravity, there are two common "youthful" ideas. One is that we are surrounded by a sea of fast-moving particles, that push on us from all sides, and that the earth shields us from the ones coming from below, so that we are pushed onto its surface. The other is an idea like yours that everything is expanding.

Both make sense initially, but then can very easily be shown to be wrong (both do not follow an inverse-square law, for example). Most people, when realising this, will just see that they made a sensible guess that turned out not to work. Unfortunately, some people are not happy with the scientific method, and will continue to insist that their view is still right, irrespective of the facts.

If I may make an aside, it is interesting to me that these people will often then accuse mainstream scientists of being closed to new ideas. Of course, refusing to accept the evidence is the ultimate closed-mindedness. In contrast, genuine scientists actively go out and look for disproof of our most cherished beliefs.

To turn, as I often do, to my own area of particle physics, we have built a 27km ring deep under the Jura mountains, and spent tens of billions of Euro to test whether the Higgs boson exists (among other things), or if our theory is broken. This is the very essence of testing our theories.

Yours has been tested, has been shown to be wrong, and should be set aside.

If you genuinely do want to explain how the universe works, I'd urge you to spend four years doing an undergraduate degree in physics as the very bare minimum, before you look to rewrite what we know.