Feel free to go and read it again. If you find yourself struggling to find it, just ask and I will do my best to help you.
Oh!
Cool! So I've read the Wiki and I'm definitely struggling with it - so I'm asking you to do your best to help me. Evidently I just needed to do the "Jeopardy!" thing where I phrase my answers in the form of a question!
So I just read this page:
https://wiki.tfes.org/Universal_Acceleration and I'm struggling with it:
1) It says: "
This force is known as "Universal Acceleration"" - how can a force be an acceleration? Force is defined as acceleration times mass. Which mass is involved here? The FE is claimed to be infinite in extent - so the mass must be infinite - doesn't this mean that the acceleration must be zero?!?
2) It says: "
its effect on smaller bodies is negligible (similar to gravity in RET cosmology, which only has a noticeable affect on very large objects)." But in RET, gravity is a force between two objects. A pebble pulls on the Earth with the exact same force that the Earth pulls on the pebble...Newton's Third Law guys. The reason the pebble accelerates faster than the Earth is because it's so much lighter and F=ma, so: a=F/m. So what's the rule in FET?
3) "
The gravitational pull of the stars, for example, causes observable tidal effects on Earth." So could you please explain to me why the tides vary in timing from day to day when the stars are always in the same exact position at any given time of day? Where do the stars go to when there is a low tide at midnight? I can still see them. Did their
gravity gravitation turn off for some reason? Why are there two high and two low tides each day. This is not explained anywhere on the Wiki.
4) "
Q: Why does gravity vary with altitude? A: The moon and stars have a slight gravitational pull." How doe this "gravitation" (but not "gravity" - even though you just called it that by mistake!) produce both a variable attraction for the tides and a constant attraction for reduced gravity on mountain tops?
Then there is another page
https://wiki.tfes.org/Celestial_Gravitation ...
5) It says "
Celestial Gravitation accounts for tides and other gravimetric anomalies across the Earth's plane." How exactly does it "account for it"? This isn't explained anywhere I could find.
Thanks in advance for your help! (You know, you should really stick to saying "
Just read the Wiki" and "
False" and let Tom take the hits for the gaping holes in FET.)