http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Logo_250X250.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Background_1024X576.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Banner_686X60.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Half-Banner_234X60.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Logo_250X250 http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Logo-Watermark_250X250.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Background_1024X576.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Half-Banner-ALT_234X60.jpg Bigthink http://www.bigthink.com/feed/rss/comment/idea/4339 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:15:46 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.bigthink.com/science-technology/space-time/4339 I have the book as well. It seems imayberight8 is the only informed comment here, so I'd like to offer my perspective on it. I agree there are lots of new concepts, and very interesting. I also found orbits a stumbling point initially, until I really got the point that there are no absolutes in this universe -- no absolute reference points, no absolute grid in space, no absolute straight line paths (straight relative to what absolute reference??). Factor in the concept that all relative reference objects in space are expanding and you'll get relative curving paths everywhere, quite naturally. It is straight lines that are inconceivable in such a universe. So I now totally get how the expanding moon passing the expanding Earth couldn't do anything else *but* orbit. After passing that hurdle I found the book most enlightening and intriguing. Personally, I think it is a theory whose time has definitely come. Bigthink Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:27:50 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/science-technology/space-time/4339/#24304 http://www.bigthink.com/science-technology/space-time/4339 I suspect the original comment on the new "Theory", which ends with the phrase "get the book and read it", is yet another sales pitch posted on the web by the author. Many customer reviews entitled "a m must read" and even "don't miss out on this one" (sounds like a carpet shop sale promotion!) appear on sites like Amazon and Barnes and Noble by "reviewers" who have only ever posted one review. The best thing to do with this book is ignore it. Genuine scientific theories are published in scietific journals for peer review. This one is published privately to make money out of the scientifically ignorant. Bigthink Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:01:33 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/science-technology/space-time/4339/#7214 http://www.bigthink.com/science-technology/space-time/4339 I agree, I had the same reaction to the book but I disagree with it for one main reason. His model for gravity is impossible. Before he told us the part about gravity he told us to imagine a 2-d world and how gravity and such would work there. Well think about that if we were in a 2-d work, for gravity to work (and assuming elementary particles are circles) then in 3-d space a cone for each particle in 2-d space must be passing through the 2-d space. I use the cone because from it's tip it increases in diameter to the other other side, which would make it so the 2-d particles would continue to grow as these cones move through the space. There is yet one problem, it is impossible to put thousands of cones with there tips beside each other and having each one still stay perpendicular to the 2-d space, otherwise they would overlap which defies the basic idea that matter cannot occupy the same space. Now apply this model to a 3-d to 4-d model. Logic would dictate that the same problem would arise. Bigthink Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:43:05 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/science-technology/space-time/4339/#2723 http://www.bigthink.com/science-technology/space-time/4339 I HAVE that book and I was very enthusiastic about it before I read it. Not so much anymore. I could not reconcile his explanation of how planetary orbits work, with reality. Very interesting concepts, though. Too much to swallow to believe in it, without verifiable proof coming from the science community. They, collectively, do not seem too impressed. I have been on plenty of science forums discussing this very book & theory before and the wind has always blown against Expansion Theory. Every atom expanding universally at exactly the same rate to simulate gravity is just a unbelievable idea. Nature does not do anything that exact on a universal scale. It IS the minor imperfections in all the details that help make our universe work. Also, the author putting down every great mind in our past to advance his own theory is just too egotistically arrogant. Only an insane God would come up with such a twisted charade to fool all of us. Bigthink Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:19:54 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/science-technology/space-time/4339/#2039