To all that think MM is off his rocker. I have noticed a lot of nonsense and circular argument in this book in only the first 3 chapters, but I would like to present a simple scenario regarding the basic premise of "every atom, and therefore every object, is doubling in size every 19 minutes, while space remains undisturbed and unstretched" for anyone to consider. As I sit here and look up at an imaginary space shuttle in orbit above me, which comes back in about 90 minutes, what would MM have me think? For starters, 19, 38, 57, 76, 95 minutes later becomes 2x, 4x, 8x, 16x, 32x (2 to the fifth) bigger than the present moment. Everybody agreed? So, let's be conservative and say that everything is 25x bigger when that shuttle swings by again. So the earth is 25x bigger and has thrust me some 160,000 km out (using the original measure 25 x 6371 km) which has made me feel my weight sitting in my easy chair while I sip on a beer waiting for the shuttle to come around again. But, of course all my sense of measurement has also expanded so I would expect the shuttle to still be some 300 km up there. Or would it? If I have been accelerated outwards some 160,000 km (using a given measure, after all km is just a given amount and I could just as easily have said 25 of these special 6371 km units), then wouldn't the shuttle also need to have been accelerated outward the same amount? But according to MM objects in space are being approached by us, not the other way around. But clearly we are not approaching the shuttle. Yet MM would state that the shuttle is coasting by in a natural orbit, as though it were moving at a steady speed, with no gravity accelerating it. But if I have moved out with the earth and not bumped into the space shuttle long ago, then where is this 9.8 m/sec/sec of outward acceleration coming from? Is it some mysterious part of the natural orbit? That same natural orbit effect that brings two passing objects so close too each other that they begin to orbit one another by appearing to curve in towards each other. But they must now continue on this nonlinear path by resetting the geometry and curve away from each other by matching precisely the expansion of the earth. MM states that the orbiting body is coasting over the surface while maintaining a set distance, so as not be confused by gravity which causes acceleration. So what is this then, some kind of equal but opposite anti-gravity? But wait a minute. Using those calculations that shuttle would be 300 km above me using the old measurements, which are 25 times too small for this next pass. No wonder it looms so big up there! So there must be an additional acceleration that swings the shuttle out 25x further above me so it would appear to be the same 300 km above me as I now reckon things. And don't forget that the shuttle is 25 x bigger, so there can be no doubt that it must be further out, and by a precise amount that matches the increase in size so that it won't appear to be any bigger. I estimate this to be less than 5% additional outward acceleration simply because the ratio of 300 km to 6371 km of the earth's radius. And what of the forward motion of any orbiting body. In order to maintain a relatively uniform movement over the earth, meaning the same relative speed, any satellite or the moon must also be accelerated in a forward direction to match the ever increasing circumference that it must travel. For the earth, that would again at least have to be slightly larger than the 9.8 m/sec/sec, as doubling the diameter of the orbit would double a slightly larger circumference for the orbiting body, which would require a bit more acceleration for it to come around to the same point in the same amount of time. But what about the moon which is reckoned to be about 384,000 km away in its orbit? At more than 60 x the radius of the earth, this would require an outward acceleration of over 60 times that of the earth's expansion so that the moon would maintain its relative distance while getting bigger itself, something like 600m/sec/sec of outward acceleration and an equally phenomenal forward acceleration for the expanding circumference of its orbit. MM doesn't like the infinite energy that he reckons is required for gravity to maintain the order of things, but what has he stated in his introduction that explains all these accelerations that would be required to maintain the order of his universe. So all these orbiting bodies are being accelerated outwards and forwards by what, and each one is slightly different depending on its distance from the surface of the earth so that they will maintain their appearance relative to the observer? I could say other things but this is enough for now.[GOOGLE][/GOOGLE]
