Need more time & space, Thank you.

I have been trying to present my idea in a "conversational" mode, the basic format of this forum. But this "paint-by-number" approach is getting a little frustrating for me, and (obviously) for the reader as well. On the other hand, trying to present the whole idea at once is a little bit like a snake trying to swallow a pig. But I am going to have to do something like that, in order to get the whole idea "on the table," so it can be evaluated (digested?) in a fair and consistant manner.

So give me a day, or two, or four, to "put it all together," while keeping it reasonably brief. (That is the hard part: providing enouhg information to make it understandable, without "explaining it to death" and losing everyone in the process.)

ITMT...I estimated the magnitude of "light energy" in post #33, arriving at a figure of 1 j/kg/yr, or 2.5" of elevation per year @ earth's surface (+/- 2 OOMs). Perhaps you can tell me where I lost you, or which part you disagree with. I wish I could just Google it, and present a number that everyone agrees with (as I did with the mass and energy output of the sun), but cosmologists use parameters, not numbers. For the life of me, I have been utterly unable to figure out how to convert their parameters into numbers, so I have had to navigate my own way through the data, with the result that my calculation appears unfamiliar, and is (evidently) hard-to-follow.