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To All:

When I was taking integral calculus in 1960 the prof said you can always check your answer with trigonometry. That statement is what prompted me to run a check on the gravitational forces within the earth. A few years back I was recovering from a heart bypass and had plenty of time to think about the problem and devised a way to trigonometrically calculate the forces (accellerations) of gravity from Newton's original proof that all mass can be considered to be located at the center, which makes it a point mass. Now, I could have easily looked at my schematic of forces diagram and concluded that horizontal vectors cancel out, as they do when using calculus, because calculus employes directional vectors; but directional vectors is not the nature of gravity, it is a bidirectional force and a bidirectional force cannot be cancelled by another bidirectional force, only matched in strength.

Charlie O posted a link to my PowerPoint presentation, which explains the reasoning behind my concern.

Modest: I know you would like to be rid of Charlie O and me, but we are talking earth science here. so I think this is where we belong.

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...I could have easily looked at my schematic of forces diagram and concluded that horizontal vectors cancel out, as they do when using calculus, because calculus employes directional vectors; but directional vectors is not the nature of gravity, it is a bidirectional force and a bidirectional force cannot be cancelled by another bidirectional force, only matched in strength. ...
The statement that I have bolded -- I do not understand. I have never heard of a "bidirectional vector". I do not understand why a force of any kind cannot be canceled by an equal but opposite force of the same kind.

 

Please explain this.

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Hi All:

Here are the results of my calculations.

Radius gv cold gh cold gv hot gh hot gv aver gh aver

6371 9.8331 10.0604 9.9307 8.0385 9.8253 9.7883

6370 9.8346 10.0715 9.8327 8.0434 9.8263 9.7998

6365 9.8381 10.1121 9.8399 8.0735 9.8306 9.8574

6359 9.8475 10.1943 9.8525 8.1349 9.8343 9.9264

6291 9.8625 10.9073 9.9326 8.6772 9.8173 10.6533

6116 9.5896 12.3340 9.8759...

Cold-co,

what exactly do you expect us to do with this table of numbers?

what conclusion do you expect us to draw from it?

 

why don't you PLOT this data as three lines in a graph, showing which Earth-model goes with each line, and then INTERPET the PLOT, telling us what conclusion you draw from it all.

I can't speak for everybody here, but when anybody drops a huge table of numbers on me, about all they're going to get in return is a blank stare. :confused:

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Now, I could have easily looked at my schematic of forces diagram and concluded that horizontal vectors cancel out, as they do when using calculus, because calculus employes directional vectors; but directional vectors is not the nature of gravity, it is a bidirectional force and a bidirectional force cannot be cancelled by another bidirectional force, only matched in strength.

 

Like Pyrotex, I'm afraid I don't understand this. Acceleration is change in velocity. Velocity is a vector which means it can either change in magnitude or direction. Your table of data provides two different accelerations for one point. I don't know how to interpret that, and I'm very curious to find out how.

 

To help me interpret the data you could explain what horizontal acceleration is. I understand vertical acceleration due to gravity. On the surface of the earth if I drop something in a vacuum it will change velocity at 9.8 meters per second squared toward the center of the earth. If I give a straightforward interpretation of your data it seems I should be expecting an object to change velocity when dropped at 10.0604 m/s^2 in the horizontal direction. I doubt you mean for it to be taken that way because that would not agree with observation. So, I'm curious to understand what "horizontal acceleration" means.

 

Charlie O posted a link to my PowerPoint presentation, which explains the reasoning behind my concern.

 

I do not have power point installed at the moment.

 

Modest: I know you would like to be rid of Charlie O and me, but we are talking earth science here. so I think this is where we belong.

 

After a good deal of effort engaging both you and Charlie in a respectful manner it's difficult to imagine how you came to the conclusion that I would like to 'be rid of you'. Your topic has now been moved into its own thread, here. The staff feels that discussion on your model is better-served having its own thread with its own topic. This will hopefully garner more useful responses. And, I assure you, has nothing to do with 'being rid of you'.

 

~modest

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I made a PDF and posted it here:

 

part0.pdf

 

Erhm...well..ahhh, I think we have another example of anti-science here wherein one starts with a preconception and makes up something to fit it, rather than look at the evidence and draw the conclusions afterward.

 

I'll leave out of it though except to quote from the horse's mouth now that we can get a look in there. :blink:

 

However, his cold-core model failed to meet the low moment of inertia needed to keep Earth from flattening.

This impediment bothered him, because the workings of a condensed cold-core model matched well events reported by paleontologists, archaeologists, geologists, and historians. They also matched well events reported in the Bible, including future events foretold by the prophets. Further, they brought reason to the Gloabal Warming debate by inytroducing a natural heat pump cycle of Ice Ages and warming periods.

Fortunately he realized the packing effect of gravity had never been calculated. ...

 

Something is getting packed here, but it ain't gravity. :confused:

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To All:

Modest: Thank you for providing a new thread. I realize the subject is a major departure from the purpose of earth science.

Stereologist atal: If you are interested in reviewing the spreadsheets I used to calculate the forces of gravity at descending depths within the earth, I will gladly mail you a CD, at no charge. Just send your snail mail address to my email address that Charlie O will provide, I don't have the number of posts needed to submit an email address.

When I did the calculations I selected a diameter for use in calculating conditions at descending depths. Once a diameter is selected the rest of the earth becomes nothing more than a bunch of gram masses surrounding that diameter. It is a practice used to solve engineering problems and is the exact same practice employed by Newton.

For those of you who are confused by the term "bidirectional" I use it to indicate the vector has two arrowheads one at each end of the line. It is similar to the pull produced by a rubber strand. My horizontal gravitational pull occurs in a 360 degree plane. It is similar to the restorative pull in the skin of a rubber balloon, which in a schematic pulls in both directions in a lateral plane. That is why you cannot feel its effect. But as one progresses into the earth the horizontal pull quickly becomes the dominant force. I think it is the force that holds cloud fragments and planetary bodies together.

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I'm sitting behind my desk.

 

I'm being gravitationally attracted by the Earth, the moon, the sun, Jupiter, Saturn, and even the fat guy next door.

 

The gravitational attraction that manifests in me being pulled straight to the centre of the Earth, is merely the sum total of all the gravity sources in the entire universe. Some are more distant, though.

 

There are no "horizontal" gravitational forces - there is merely "gravity", which works in all directions.

 

Like Pyro explained, as you approach the center of the Earth, you might as well ignore the sphere of Earth above you at any given depth, because it all cancels out. You will merely experience the gravitational pull of a shrinking sphere below your feet as you descend.

 

Gravity working in all directions is an obvious given. Stand on the beach and look at the tides, for instance.

 

So we don't need any mysterious new force to account for cloud fragments and planetary bodies. The "gravity" experienced by any individual particle in any given system, is merely the sum total of the vectors of gravitational pull of all bodies in the system.

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Boerseum:

Thank you, you have made my point when you say; "There are no "horizontal" gravitational forces - there is merely "gravity", which works in all directions."

Since horizontally is a direction then there must be horizontal gravitational attraction.

 

Charlie O has posted my email address. If you are interested in reviewing the mathematics behind my claim that all orbs experience horizontal gravitational attraction just email your snail mail address. I'll mail you a copy of my trigonometric calculations at no cost to you.

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Stereologist:

All I am saying is there are objects in earth's crust that must be attracted by horizontal gravity, just as Boerseun claims. That horizontal gravity exists is evident in the Cavendish balance the device used to determine the gravitational constant. The Cavendish balance does not operate in the vertical, but instead operates in a plane perpendicular to the vertical gravitational vector. Hence. a large deposit of heavy ore will cause a pertabation in any gravity vector.

 

My server will not allow the transmission of the amount of data that a CD can accomodate. So, I'm sorry it isn't possible to do it in the manner you suggest. Don't worry I'm not going to start bombarding you with unwanted ads or blow your cover.

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The Cavendish balance measures gravity, not a separate entity, i.e. horizontal gravity. The fact that one vector points down towards the center of the earth does not mean that there are not other vectors points towards other nearby objects. The existence one vector does not say anything about the other vectors does it? For example, suppose we put a Cavendish balance in a 0 gravity location. Does this mean that the attraction seen by the Cavendish balance is no longer what you call horizontal gravity? Does it become regular gravity?

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Cold-co, I don't think you understand the implications of what I'm saying.

 

If you descend in an elevator to, say, a hundred kilometers deep, then surely you'll be gravitationally attracted to the hundred-km thick layer of rock and stone in front of you. Sure. But you will also be gravitationally attracted to the 100km thick layer behind you, to the left and the right of you. All these vectors will cancel out. The only gravitational pull you will experience, will be the resultant of all gravity sources having any sort of impact on you. In other words, the mass to the left, right, in front and behind you might as well be ignored, you won't experience it. You will only fall towards the center of the Earth, experiencing the gravitational pull of a globe underneath your feet, shrinking as you go deeper until you reach the core, where you will be essentially weightless. Because even right at the very core, the total mass of the Earth is all around you - which means gravitational pull will be the sum total of the mass of the Earth in all directions, perfectly canceling out.

 

Counter-intuitively, this is not to say that the pressure at the core is zero - indeed, that will be the zone of highest pressure. Because all the layers from the core to the surface are being attracted to the core, and supporting those layers above it, which are all pressing down, because the sum total of the gravitational pull they all experience, is downwards, towards a globe of a radius determined by the particular layer's depth.

 

This globe we're discussing isn't a sort of a gravity "Faraday cage", where gravity is magically made to disappear under the surface. All we're saying, is that because of the shape of the Earth, all mass above, to the front, the left and the right of any particular object inside the Earth can be ignored - they all cancel out (if the Earth was a cube, it would've been a totally different story).All that matters, is the gravitational pull beneath your feet - because there is no other gravity source to cancel that out. That will merely be the resultant of all possible gravity sources you experience.

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