Elastic strings help explain a run-away Moon

The Forces of Nature by Kelland Terry, Ph.D.

There are two methods by which elastic strings might cause satellite migration. First, in a previous blog, I explained how satellites meet with repulsion forces. This means the Moon in orbit about the Earth will meet with some modest repulsion force as it encounters the Earth’s graviton in its path. In this case, the Moon will be encouraged to move away from Earth, and Earth’s gravitons will meet with resistance as they retract against the Moon’s surface. This will cause a net transfer of momentum from Earth to Moon, which will cause it to migrate away from Earth a tad every year. It will also cause Earth’s day to grow longer. There is another force at work which is analogous to the hula hoop spinning around a gyrating human body.

A small girl is able to make the hula hoop spin around her body because her body is spinning faster and it weighs more than the hula hoop. The human wins out, and the hula hoop in contact with the gyrating body spins in the same direction the body rotates. In this system, a portion of the angular momentum of the human body is transferred to the hula hoop because of direct contact between hoop and body. To maintain this relationship, the human must expend energy, and of course, it is impossible for the hula hoop to migrate away from the human body even though its angular momentum increases. Let’s examine the Earth-Moon system

Earth spins on its axis at the rate of 463.8 meters per second, while the Moon is orbiting around Earth in the same direction at the rate of 4.6 meters per second. Not only is Earth more massive than the Moon, it also spins 10 times faster. Earth’s gravitons that bind to the Moon will exert a force dragging the Moon through space as the Earth spins on its axis. The Moon is attempting to reverse this force, but the Moon is less massive and its spin rate is 10 times less. The end result is an increase in the Moon’s velocity and angular momentum, which means it will tend to migrate away from Earth (15 inches per year). At the same time, the gravitons retracting back to Earth are impeded, which decreases Earth’s spin on its axis with an increase in the length of the day by 0.002 seconds per century. Thus we have a physical reason for the transfer of momentum from Earth to Moon, and a physical reason why the Moon is slowly migrating away from Earth.

The drag effect Earth has on the Moon works because Earth’s gravitons at its leading edge closest to the Moon are constantly being tightened as Earth spins on its axis. At the same time, those gravitons on the other side of Earth are constantly being loosened as Earth on this side is spinning towards the Moon.

Kelland—www.vestheory.com