I watched it rise last night . Comimg up over the forest and the river it had an orange hue with a orangish light going upwards. Its was a gorgious sight
It may be a millenia or three from now, but eventually the universe will begin contraction.
There are people who think it's real? Would be hilarious to think there are people who think the moon grows and shrinks on a regular basis.
XXX*Another poster in the original newsgroup where I posted this who had this idea about magnetic fields converging in the earth's core that somehow produces an endless supply of new neutrons.The reason the moon looks bigger at the horizon than overhead is that the moon is bigger at the horizon than it is overhead. There are sound physical principles that explain why this happens. As you know, the moon is in orbit around the earth and if you recall your physics you will remember that objects in orbit maintain constant potential energy. You will also recall that potential energy in a gravitational field is a function of an object's mass and altitude relative to a reference plane. When the moon is on the horizon, lower to the ground, it has a certain, defined potential energy. As the moon rises, it must conserve energy and therefore must shed mass. If the moon did not shed mass, it could not rise or it would be in clear violation of well established physical laws. The moon continues to shed mass until it reaches its maximum altitude at its azimuth (named for the famed English mathematician/ automotive designer Sir Isaac Azimuth who invented the differential and who should not be confused with the other famed Azimuth, the sci-fi writer and spectular humorist{one who tells off-color jokes}). After passing through its azimuth, the moon begins to accumulate mass at just the right rate to maintain its orbit. Now you may well be asking yourself "what happens to the mass the moon has shed and how does it get it back?" The answer to the first part of this question was first answered in the last century by Einstein's famed equation which shows that moon mass is converted to energy and shed it the form of moonbeams. The second part of the question "how does the moon regain mass?" has been a mystery until very recently. I don't claim to have a grasp on the fine points of the theory but I must direct you to the recent works of XXX*.
Here's what I wrote on the subject back in 1997:
XXX*Another poster in the original newsgroup where I posted this who had this idea about magnetic fields converging in the earth's core that somehow produces an endless supply of new neutrons.
mil⋅len⋅ni⋅um noun, plural -ni⋅ums.
1. a period of 1000 years.
Sorry you believed that or were you joking around? OK after reading the whole thing I'm guessing you MUST have been joking, I hope so anyway.
I found the website for the guy who thinks neutrons can be created in extremely strong magnetic fields and that this is happening in the earth's core, causing the earth to grow in size over time.
"the trouble with ignorance is it picks up confidence as it goes along"
He used to use some rather harsh language when we'd discuss his theories on usenet.
He was a young earth creationist posting on sci.geo.geology. P&N is actually pretty tame compared to usenet.Did you just play along with this stuff or did you ridicule them?
He was a young earth creationist posting on sci.geo.geology. P&N is actually pretty tame compared to usenet.