Recent content by BillyT

Post 10 has correct answer for a grid, with several generators feeding it. On a single transformer POV, if all of the customer it supplies disconnect, then the current the transformer takes from the gird drop drastically - only the hysteresis loses in the iron core are being met as the magnetic...

Your problem is much more serious than the one a win10 upgrade gave me. Suddenly my desktop files were gone and replaced by some I had not used or seen in a couple of years. I was really upset for quite a few days. Computer was useable, but all of interest seemed lost. My computer has solid...

I don't know how many Km of adjustment from the shape the molten, much more rapidly spining Earth took when it solified, still remains to be made. Your reference is not fully correct - even a non-spinning ocean covered Earth without any exposed land mass would not have oceans in an equal...

ok. I admit it is only on the stastical average spherical, but at any time will have a surface roughness of a few atomic diameters. However, if you have chosen the total number of molecules correctly and the drop is very small and at 1C, then the surface roughness can be less about the...

@mfb: I am still waiting for you to demonstrate that the contraction at equator with removal of centrfugal force is large compared to the expansion due to a large mass of water going towards the poles (less compressive force). Or, like my opposite belief, just admit that is ONLY your belief too?

If the container is spherical and with unform wall thickness then at its center, or anywhwere inside, there is no "micro-gravity" from the container mass. Make container orbit / drift in space at least a 1000AU from the sun* and as it has opaque copper walls, with small amount of decaying...

Another point I need to make:The Earth's bulge is NOT due to the current very very weak centrifugal force. The entire Earth was once moltent and spinning much more rapidly before the moon existed, carring much of the original angular monementum away from the earth. The Earth's bulge when its...

A small drop of water inside an air current shielding glass container in orbit about the Earth, is a sphere.

It is 20Km bulge in the radius.* Yes part of it would still be there for centuries. Only example I know about is the Norwegian Fiords. Their walls are still slightly rising from a below sea level height and have been since the end of the last ice age. I. e. it takes a long time for elastic...

All the mobile "solid" but elastic mass of rocks. Only part of the water mass , the centrifugal bulge, moves towards the poles. The total volume of ocean decrease, on a many decades time scale, as its average temperature drops. Are you aware of fact the Norwegian fiords mountain sides were once...

Yes and it would still be there, compressing the interior 99+% of the Earth below, but not the water, which has moved to the poles. Why would the water flow back - its bulge up at equator was due to the now absent centrifugal force, Also the average temperature of the water decreases -...

Yes, but you did not limit your statement of rise to at the poles in post 59. You said: "... one thing to consider is the change of gravity due to increase in sea level." I had already told in post 37, 60 and several others about a polar sea level rise AND a lowering of sea level at the equator...

Why do you think the sea level will rise? As a great mass of sea water, now at the equator will move towards the poles, and become colder, the average temperature of the oceans will DECREASE and they will contract in total volume - lower average surface or lesser average ocean depth. Several...

You are neglecting that a redistribution of mass (ocean water) towards the poles would occur. Its weight may even reduce the separation between the poles (via greater compressive force) making the solid mass's inverse square law effect cause stronger gravity there as well as having more mass...

Most ignore the huge effect of greater ocean water at the poles. I discussed this in post 37. That increased polar mass probably reduces the separtion of the poles making gravity stronger there. Also the diameter at the equator may increase when this water load is reduced making surface gravity...