Re: Expelled: If you don't believe in holy physics dogma ; you're fired!

On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:35:15 GMT, Bill Miller wrote:

> Suppose that a stationary mass is located in the gravitational field of 
> another, distant stationary mass.The two m***** exert equal and opposite

> forces on each other. (Action and reaction)  Let us now allow one mass
to 
> move under the action of the field of the other mass. ut the second
mass, 
> being far away, does not yet "know
>  that the first mass has moved. (gravity -- like light -- cannot
propagate 
> instantaneously.) The second body continues to experience the same force
as 
> before.

> In other words, the forces are now unequal in magnitude and direction
and 
> Newton's action/reaction law no longer holds! Further, this situation
also 
> is in conflict with the very basic law of conservation of momentum.

Either you forgot to say something that I can't reverse engineer at the 
moment, or, in the case you described, the forces are still always equal 
instant per instant.

The fields are time and space continous and both of the m***** move with
trajectories that are of class Cinf and with speeds below those of the
fields. How can the forces possibly be unequal? I assume you know what
you're talking about, so please tell me more, because I don't get it.

Regards,

kl31n