Recent content by heatwaveqc

if you look at the question in natural units, rather than SI, it's nature changes from "why is gravity weak" to "why is the mass of a proton so small compared to it's charge?" If you compare gravity to, for example, radiative energy or steller wind, it's comparable... both vary with the square...

my understanding is that solar panels are extremely inefficient... something on the order of 10 or 20%. Likely where most of the energy loss is occurring. It's been a while since I seriously looked into the technology, though, so I could be wrong.

minor miscalculation. Density of steel is about 7 g/cm3, so a structure with internal features could have an avarage internal density of about 3 g/cm3, which puts the thickness of about 8,000 km. worked out the grav effect on a non-rotating disk from the twice-solar-mass star, and it starts...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_fluid best answer I've found so far. When looking at theories, I tend to judge based on two things: simplicity and explanatory power. I think that this theory has both, and gets rid of the two biggest issues I have with the current Standard Model of the...

> Given: Alderson Disk system, disk inner radius R1, outer radius R2, thickness T, density Rho, > star mass M (irrelevant due to superposition?). > How to find amount and direction of gravity force at some point in the system, including > points in-disk, in the solar gap and out in space...