Back in my school daze (sic intentional, this was in the 60's), I inadvertently signed up for a course in Cosmology. One of the baffling topics covered was the relationship between local intertial forces and the rest of the universe.
I seem to remember that one of the popular theories posited that the relationship between local inertial forces and other objects in the universe was linear; i.e., the magnitudes of local inertial forces on an object varied with the first power of the distances between that object and all other objects in the universe.
The net result was that the most distant objects in the universe had more influence on local intertial properties than the nearby objects.
Am I on track with this?
2006-08-21
23:22:39
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