Earth Expansion

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Jeremy</i>
<br />Given all the discussion about the GPS system I would be interested to know how the GPS confirms or denies the existence of the radial expansion of the Earth as proposed by the late Warren Carey and others. Does the MM embrace planetary expansion as a possibility or not?<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">Sure, it was a possibility. However, the key question was this: Given that the Atlantic Ocean is widening, is the Pacific also widening, or closing up? GPS and SLR indicate the latter. So at the moment, Earth expansion in its simplest form (slow, continuous expansion) appears dead. -|Tom|-

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does this not put a damper on " pushing gravity "

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by north</i>
<br />does this not put a damper on "pushing gravity"<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">PG does not predict Earth expansion because it behaves the same as Newtonian gravity in everyday experience. The five differences with NG and GR are all observable only under special circumstances. So the answer to your question is "no". -|Tom|-