J.C.MacSwell

So event 1 and is in event 2's past, and event 2 is in event 1's past and they can transmit information instantly between them?

The explanation sounds weak, but what do you expect from a guy that subdivides every time he's indecisive? Hopefully he came up with something better in the "Other Worlds".

More mass and closer to the earth?

Not as effectively, though I think it can still work well when a cold drink "sweats". A cold drink can still be below the dew point on a hot dry day, can it not?

After the Physics Threads, Speculations is usually the first thing I check out. I guess we could have a "Not Even Wrong" Thread, for some of the stuff sent here, but at least Speculations allows people learning science to know that what is being discussed is not necessarily accepted science, even when (hopefully) discussing things in a scientific or logical manner.

So how exactly is Einstein wrong in your opinion? If, say, I posit that the whole Universe is fueled by a Great Spinning Banana outside of known dimensions and I am later proven correct, how does it prove that Einstein was "wrong"?

...plus "unless you believe in alien rain".

In thermodynamics, a closed system cannot exchange heat and work with its surroundings. Edit: I see some different use of the term "closed system".

..and not advisable in traffic.

Interesting twist!:D

Just a guess: (surface effects aside) If you stare at variable light intensities, your eye will produce a negative affect superimposed on what you look at next.

In time reverse symmetry, the orbit would be in the opposite direction, but still incorporate an attractive force.

My first thought is that he will reveal your empty casket, if it is empty, right away, thus saving himself giving up a prize, and only open a remaining empty one if you have the prize in your casket, in hopes you may switch..

Well, as stated in the third law, a repulsive force for one body will result in an equal but opposite, therefore repulsive, force to the other. They will be accelerated in opposite directions away from each other. There is no force available to facilitate an orbit.

If it's geosynchronous it's fixed to (one particular of) Earth's reference frame... however this is not an inertial frame, and clocks on it will disagree over time if left alone uncorrected.

They are certainly not symmetric in that sense, where you will always get a similar pattern of movement by reversing the forces.

I don't think two is enough, but if two is the ensemble, or system of interest, the mass of that system could be considered greater than the sum of it's parts, (as you would consider in a gas cloud which would certainly have a temperature) as you could include the kinetic energies with respect to the center of mass.

I speculate that if we were around 5, 10 or 14 billion years ago it would appear to us, best guess, like there had been a big bang about 14 billion years earlier than that.

That means that a change in temperature, results in a change in mass, everything else being equivalent.

If it's high enough to reach terminal velocity... they will all approach it. Edit: missed the "negligible" part.

Sounds like a wild wood weed wormhole... "take a trip and never leave the farm"

horizontal loading? assume no friction? Easy to calculate assuming an ideal spring: assume box is fixed? assume spring has no mass? assume Hookes law (force is proportional to displacement)? assume spring has no damping? Easy to calculate assuming an ideal spring. Whatever answer you get, the acceleration should be less than that, but close if all the assumptions are reasonably close.

What is meant by protected and not protected.

I think Space could be infinite. Seeing how there are infinite points on a 1 cm line, infinite lines on a 1 square cm plane, and infinite planes on a 1 cm cube, add a dimension and you have infinite space (3-space), however bound, if that makes sense. But time, with a beginning, infinite, or "other/something else" I would pick "other".

This makes sense in that it seems consistent with itself. But any reasonable line of thinking seems to be unreasonable at some point. Everything seems to collapse like a house of cards. Current thinking (last I read) is uncertain as to whether space was infinite at T approaching 0 (expansion).