Gravitational force is relative to the masses involved and the distance between the centers of mass.
Thus for an appreciable change in the gravitational field, you would require a non-uniform explosion and resulting debris field.
Um, wouldn't light slow down by more than0.2 % traveling through the vast reaches of space?Jones Beene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Remember, dear vortex reader, you heard it here first, off the record, on the QT, and very Hush-Hush
No its not Roy's famous horse, which by the way is still with us... sort of:
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/pet/trigger.html
Nor is it Fred's 'snowball from hell' ;-)
One Dec. 26, 2004apowerful undersea earthquake in the Indian Ocean that triggered a devastating tsunami. The earthquake has been upgraded to magnitude 9.0 and isreported to be the strongest the past 40 years. The tragedy is almost beyond comprehension.
It is part of the "human predicament" to always want to assign cause-and-effect, especially to major catastrophes.
http://nichirenscoffeehouse.net/Ryuei/depen-orig.html
Consequently, much finger-pointing has already taken place about the putative cause of this devastating quake, assumingthat no deity would have allowed it, so it must have a sinister cause- some of that speculation serious, some ludicrous. Exxon has even been blamed for taking out too much oil from the region. Go figure... even this anti-oil cynic would scarcely blame big-oil for this kind of thing.
This speculation in no way intends to make light of the immensity of this awful tragedy, but sometimes... if one cannot cry enough, a sardonic kind of levity is the only consolation ... as the Irish know well.
Not sure where thiscause-and-effect observation, now to be added to the growing list, stands on the ludicrosity-scale, but consider this:
A once-in-a-lifetime cosmological event occurred at *about* the same time as the tsunami, a gigantic' star-quake' which rocked the entireMilky Way galaxy. It was probably the biggest explosion observed by human on our planetsince Kepler saw a supernova in 1604.Actually the event itself occurred much earlier, but at light-speed the evidence arrived here at a remarkably coincidental time.Astronomers have been stunned by the amount of energy released inthis star explosion on the far side of our galaxy, 50,000 light-years away, which has just now been calculated. The flash of radiation seen on 27 December was so powerful that it bounced off the Moon and lit up the Earth's atmosphere. But the gravity wave would have hit here slightly earlier, as the radiation would have been slowed by intergalactic dust and relic-hydrogen.
The blast occurred on the surface of an exotic star - a super-magnetic neutron star called SGR 1806-20. If the explosion had been just 10,000 light-years away, Earth could easily havesuffered a mass extinction. There is such a threat within that distance, by the way. More on that later.
One calculation has the giant flare on SGR 1806-20 unleashing about 10,000 trillion trillion trillion watts.
http://i-newswire.com/pr7466.html
Not to mention... the "gravity wave" which could have gotten here first.
JonesMerlynMagickal Engineer and Technical Metaphysicist
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