Chapter 7 – Gravity
The problem with gravity is that it has no associated mechanical model to explain how it works. In Isaac Newton’s theory of gravity, gravity is an attractive force between all objects with mass. The mechanism by which this attractive force manifests itself is never provided. In Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, gravity is the curving of space around massive objects in a spatial dimension beyond the ordinary three (length, width, and depth). Again, as with Newton, how this curving occurs is not stated; it just happens. Subatomic particle physics also has a theory of gravity. Here, countless massless, chargeless, spin-2 subatomic particles called gravitons are exchanged between massive bodies, causing an attractive force. However, if you and a friend float on big rafts on a calm lake, and hurl basketballs at each other, the two of you will drift apart, not closer together.
For these reasons, we will now propose a theory of gravity that actually makes sense. We saw in the previous chapter how the ether wind “whipped up” by the rotation of the stellatum provided the sideways force that keeps the planets moving laterally around the Sun. The astute reader will by now have realized that an additional force is also required, pulling in the direction of the Sun, if the planets are to stay in their orbits for any length of time. The need for two forces acting at right angles to each other is due to the fact that, although the ether wind blows in concentric circles around the Sun, steadily slowing as the Sun is approached, there is nothing to keep a physical object, like a planet, within the confines of a given current of spatial wind. Eventually, all planets would end up rolling around on the inner surface of the stellatum! Obviously, this doesn’t happen, so a second force, acting at right angles to the ether wind, but in concert with it, must exist.
The simplest possibility is that the ether wind, while blowing around the Sun, is also “gobbled up” by it, Pac-Man style. Since all physical bodies are embedded in space, like ancient Jurassic Park insects entombed in amber, and if a massive body, such as the Sun, were to literally consume space, then any objects around it would be drawn in towards it, like a fisherman reeling in his catch:
Matthew 4:19 King James Version (KJV)
And He saith unto them, Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.
Where does all of this gobbled up space go? We cannot rule out the possibility that it is simply shunted back to the stellatum, perhaps hyperspatially, through some sort of transwarp conduit (to use the Star Trek vernacular), all quite invisible to our primitive science. The Solar System/Universe then becomes nothing more than a vast spatial pump, endlessly recycling the very substance of space itself. The Sun is simply the intake vent!
We can use the known acceleration due to gravity at the surface of the Sun (274 meters/second/second) to our advantage here. What this number is really saying is that the Sun is consuming space (ether wind, if you prefer) at its core at such a rate that the downward velocity of space just above the solar surface is 274 meters per second. The consumed space is steadily shunted back to the stellatum with each chomp. After another second, the “speed of space” is doubled (548 m/s). After a third second, the downward ether wind velocity is tripled (822 m/s). And so on. Any object in the space above the Sun would also travel at these velocities, due to the “imbeddedness”, so to speak, of all objects in space. To those not in the know, it would appear that the Sun is gravitationally attracting the objects around it. We could say that the Sun is emitting a gravitational field, but we now know that it is actually consuming space like a household vacuum cleaner sucks in air, creating the illusion of an attractive force. Wouldn’t an attracted object eventually reach the speed of light? No, because you eventually collide with the surface of the Sun, which puts a fiery end to the acceleration! The ether wind, however, continues towards the solar core, penetrating through any and all intervening matter. It’s possible that this continual funneling down and crashing together of the ether wind towards the center of the Sun is the ultimate cause of the Sun’s incredible heat. Nuclear fusion may simply be a side effect of this heat, rather than its cause. Other Solar System bodies, the Earth included, may derive their internal heat from the same process, though on a smaller scale, of course, since the Sun is processing all of the space for the entire Universe! In a very real sense, the stellatum provides the gravity for the Sun and the Solar System, the Sun provides the gravity for the Earth, and the ether wind is the intermediary that makes it all possible.
One can now see why the stars and galaxies beyond the Solar System must be ultimately illusory in nature – gravity requires an elaborate stellatum in order to function, and other star systems, said by MSS to every bit as complex and detailed as our own – quite plainly don’t have one. Take the Alpha Centauri system, said by MSS to the closest stellar system to our own Sun. We can plainly see that it is utterly lacking in a stellatum, since a stellatum is a solid, opaque shell surrounding a solar system. If the Alpha Centauri system possessed a stellatum, we would never be able to see its stars! The fact that the three stars of the Alpha Centauri system are plainly visible from the Earth’s surface means that the Alpha Centauri system contains no stellatum. And without a stellatum, from where would its three suns obtain their gravity? The Alpha Centauri star group is said to be a three-membered, trinary star system. Gravitationally speaking, this is exceedingly complex. If any planets are present, and MSS says that at least one planet is, then the gravitational complexities become even greater. To provide gravity for such a system, a stellatum would be fundamental requirement. In fact, every star in the Universe would require its own stellatum to provide gravity for any stars or planets that might be present. Therefore, much of what we see in the night sky has to be unphysical, aside from the planets and other objects in our own Solar system. We will explore these ideas further in a later chapter.
Let us use the planet Jupiter as a test planet, to see if our theory can reproduce the known orbit of Jupiter. If it can’t, we will be forced to discard our theory. But if we are successful, we can continue to build on our discovery as we search for the ultimate truth about the nature of reality. As we saw in the last chapter, the ether wind “kicked up” by the rotating stellatum decreases linearly in speed as one progresses from the stellatum’s outermost edge to the center of the Sun. In addition, the ether wind is, for the most part, confined to the stellatum’s equatorial regions, explaining why most Solar System objects orbit the Sun in what astronomers call the ecliptic plane. This is merely the equator of the stellatum projected inward towards the Sun. There is a certain logic to this behavior, since a rotating sphere rotates fastest at its equator, and not at all at its poles. It is no surprise, then that the plane of the Solar System is coincident with the stellatum’s equatorial plane.
From its experimentally observed orbital period of 11.86 years, we can use Kepler’s harmonic law to calculate Jupiter’s distance from the Sun: 5.2 AU. Since the maximum possible orbital radius for a planet is 10,000 AU (otherwise, one would collide with the walls of the stellatum!), we know that the ether wind blowing along Jupiter’s orbit has a velocity 1,923 times slower than the speed of light (10,000 divided by 5.2 = 1,923), which works out to be 348,934 miles per hour. The circumference of Jupiter’s orbit is an astonishing 3,038,548,415 miles (C = 2 * pi * r), which means that Jupiter should complete one orbit around the Sun in just about one year’s time. In fact, the orbital period of any Solar System body should be one year, regardless of its distance from the Sun. As this is obviously not the case, we need to remember to factor in the tremendous dilution of the ether wind by the enormous volume of a planetary orbit. In Jupiter’s case, that orbital volume is 141 times that of the volume traced out by the orbit of the Sun around the Earth. Taking the square root of this value to model the two-dimensional nature of planetary orbits (length and width, but no depth), gives 11.86. Dividing the “raw” ether wind speed by 11.86 gives 29,421 miles per hour. This much-reduced ether wind speed would, indeed, increase Jupiter’s orbital period from one year to 11.86 years, which is what we actually observe. So, our theory checks out.
The fact that we need to divide the volume of the orbit of Jupiter by the volume of the orbit of the Sun, rather than by the volume of the Sun itself, suggests that the Sun must be orbiting something, namely, the Earth. The Copernican system doesn’t recognize this, and simply uses Kepler’s harmonic law blindly, without questioning its origin, which is typical of MSS in general. We can go still further, and say that planetary distances from the Sun must be cubed in Kepler’s harmonic law because of the necessity of calculating the volume of the planetary orbit, which contains an r^3 term because of the known formula for calculating the volume of a sphere. Likewise, the planetary orbital periods must be squared in Kepler’s harmonic law because of the fundamentally two-dimensional nature of planetary orbits. In other words, the geocentric Tychonian system explains where the exponents of the harmonic law of the heliocentric Copernican system come from in the first place!
You can try similar calculations for the other planets, if you wish. In all cases, you will find complete correspondence between the observed orbital period and the calculated one (see the table of planetary orbital speeds in the last chapter). Does this correspondence prove that our theory is right? I believe that it does. You can even use the theory of gravity presented here (ether wind velocity scaled back by a factor equal to the square root of the volume of the planetary orbit divided by the volume of the Sun’s orbit) to explore situations that don’t actually exist in nature. For example, what is the orbital period of a planet orbiting the Sun at the distance of the walls of the stellatum? It’s 1,000,000 years, exactly. You can calculate this with Kepler’s harmonic law, and check the result using the ether wind concept. I believe that this is yet another “whistle blowing” situation. What are the odds that the orbital period of a planet at the edge of the Solar System would be exactly 1,000,000 years? I would say exactly zero. Therefore, this is yet another clue left for us by God that says that we are living in a special “bubble” designed by Him expressly for us.
We have solved the problem of Jupiter’s orbital speed, but have yet to explain in detail the process that keeps Jupiter “on track”, so to speak. We must remember that the circular/elliptical ether winds are capable of propelling a planet along, but our powerless to curve its trajectory. A planet would simply move off at a tangent to the ether wind stream, in accordance with Newton’s first law of motion, eventually colliding with the walls of the stellatum! To accomplish the necessary orbital curving action, we will use the Sun’s known acceleration due to gravity of 274 meters/s^2, realizing all the while that it is space itself that is moving towards the Sun at the indicated speed, and dragging Jupiter along with it, creating the illusion of gravitational attraction. First, we must calculate the acceleration out at Jupiter’s orbit, 5.2 AU from the Sun. We know that the Sun is 865,000 miles across. The solar radius would simply be half of that amount (432,500 miles). Converting 5.2 AU to miles, we get 483,600,000 miles. 483,600,000 divided by 432,500 gives 1,118, meaning that Jupiter is 1,118 times farther from the core of the Sun than is the solar surface. Squaring that figure, to model the expansion of the ether wind as the distance from the space-consuming body increases, gives 1,250,260. Therefore, the acceleration due to the Sun’s gravity, in the direction of the Sun, all the way out at Jupiter’s orbit, is 1,250,260 times smaller than at the solar surface, which works out to be 0.00022 meters/s^2, a very small acceleration, indeed. That tiny acceleration, though, acting over a long period of time, will accomplish great things, as we shall see!
Planetary orbits are elliptical in nature, but we can simplify the mathematics by considering them to be circular. Even the most elliptical of planetary orbits (such as those of Mercury, Mars, and Pluto, although Pluto no longer fits the definition of a planet) are actually quite circular, and so we can say that the direction of a planet’s motion at a certain point in its orbit is at right angles to the direction of motion one-quarter of a planetary year later. This is true for all planets. Jupiter’s orbit is nearly 12 years long, so after 3 years, the planet is moving in a direction which is orthogonal to the initial direction. Converting 3 years to seconds, we get nearly 95,000,000 seconds. Multiplying the feeble acceleration due to gravity at Jupiter’s orbit by this amount gives 20,900 meters/s. Dividing this speed by phi, the so-called golden ratio, (1 + [sqrt 5])/2, to model the fact that the ether winds blow around the Sun as they are drawn into it, forming a spiral pattern, gives us 13,063 meters/s. Converting this to miles per hour gives a little under 30,000 miles per hour, essentially the same velocity produced by the pushing force of the ether wind that we found at the outset! Note that phi mathematically “falls out” of spirals found in nature, art, science, and technology to an inordinate degree, and was even referred to as the “divine proportion” by Leonardo da Vinci.
Romans 1:20 King James Version (KJV)
For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
We can now see how gravity really works. The ether wind initially “gets the planetary ball rolling”, so to speak, while the voracious consumption of space by the core of the Sun slowly curves the initial linear motion, one second at a time, until the planet is eventually traveling in a direction orthogonal to its initial direction one-fourth of a planetary year later. Then, the ether wind takes over again, and the whole process repeats, keeping the planet on its orbital “railroad track” at all times. What appears to be a mysterious force between widely separated bodies is revealed to be a strictly local interplay between orthogonal ether wind streams, one blowing around the Solar System and ultimately caused by the spinning motion of the stellatum, and one at right angles to the first and caused by the consumption of the fluidic medium of space itself by the Sun. Gravity, then, requires a rotating stellatum, which can be thought of as the source of the ether wind, and an ether wind sink, provided by the Sun, to collect all of the Universe’s ether wind and return it to the stellatum. As with orbital motion itself, the process then repeats, providing us with an unending gravitational effect. In MSS, on the other hand, mass simply produces gravity, and no explanation is given as to why that source never runs down. Meanwhile, the source of an orbiting object’s lateral velocity is shifted to some theoretical event in the distant past, which can never be corroborated. We are just supposed to accept this ad hoc state of affairs without complaint or question. Clearly, MSS needs some work.
We can now see why stars and galaxies, and all of the denizens of the deep sky (such as nebulae, open star clusters, globular star clusters, dark clouds of cosmic dust, etc.), cannot be physical objects, like the planets in our Solar System; there is no stellatum designated for them. Instead, God has put the vast, blank canvas of the stellatum to good use by studding it with an “infinitude” of lights to illuminate our nights in the most beautiful and artistic way imaginable. When we examine these lights with our telescopes and other astronomical instruments, we say, “Oh, there’s a galaxy!” Or, “Oh, there’s a luminous cloud of gas and dust!” Then, we try to make these lights conform to our primitive scientific theories, apart from a Creator, and we must resort to superlatives to make the theories work, such as infinite mass, infinite gravity, infinite space, infinite speed, infinite velocity, infinite density, stars bigger than the entire Solar System, stars brighter than a million Suns, etc. As we will find out in a later chapter, the ideas presented in this book do away with all of that nonsense, and present us with a comprehensible cosmos.
What about the moons of the planets? How does gravity work for them? The process is very similar to that which has already been presented, except that the planet acts as an ether wind sink for its moons, much like the Sun does for its planets. Ultimately, the same ether wind that pushes the planets along in their orbits also pushes along the much smaller moons. To see how all of this works, we will examine Jupiter’s giant moon, Ganymede, the largest moon in the Solar System.
We saw earlier in this chapter that the ether wind speed at Jupiter’s orbit is 348,934 miles per hour. If Ganymede is propelled around Jupiter at that speed, it would complete one orbit in a little under 12 hours, since Ganymede is said to be 664,718 miles from Jupiter’s center. Ganymede’s actual orbital period is somewhat more than a week, so we cannot be this simplistic with our theory. Perhaps we need to “dilute” the ether wind using the orbital volume “trick” that we used with the planets. If that is the case, then what would the nominal volume be? With the planets, we could use the volume of the Sun’s orbit around the Earth as the basis for our calculation. What would correspond to that in the case of Jupiter and its moons? The only thing I can think of is the volume of the planet Jupiter itself. Let’s try that, and see where it gets us.
Jupiter is said to be one-tenth of the size of the Sun, which has been confirmed using the line of reasoning developed earlier in this book (observe actual orbital period, apply Kepler’s harmonic law or the Titius-Bode law to determine Sun-Jupiter distance, multiply by 93,000,000 to convert AU value into miles, measure angular width of Jupiter with telescope, apply small angle equation to get Jupiter’s diameter). 10% of the Sun’s diameter would be 86,500 miles. Halving that to get Jupiter’s radius gives 43,250 miles. A sphere with that radius has a volume of 338,880,785,199,312 cubic miles (V = 1.333 * pi * r^3). The volume traced out by Ganymede’s orbit is 1,230,271,397,051,404,292 cubic miles. Dividing the volume of Ganymede’s orbit by the volume of Jupiter itself yields 3,630. Taking the cube root of that, to model the three-dimensionality of the orbits of moons in general (moon orbits can be inclined every which way to a planet’s equator, unlike the case with planets and the Sun) gives 15.37. This, then, is our ether wind “dilution factor”. Dividing the raw ether wind speed by this factor gives 22,702 miles per hour. The time required for Ganymede to circumnavigate Jupiter at this speed is then somewhere between 7 and 8 days, not at all out of line with the 7.2 days that is Ganymede’s accepted orbital period. We have accomplished our goal of calculating Ganymede’s orbital period using the ether wind theory of gravity.
The moons of the other planets can be handled in exactly the same way. There are some caveats, however. Mercury, Venus, Vesta, Ceres, and Sedna have no moons. Mars has two tiny asteroidal moons, Phobos and Deimos, each only a few miles across. The ether wind blows through these tiny objects almost as if they weren’t even there. As a result, the true orbital speeds of the two Martian moons are much lower than our simple ether wind calculations would suggest. Many of the small, asteroid-like moons of the outer planets behave like Phobos and Deimos. This doesn’t mean that our ether wind-based theory of gravity is wrong. Instead, we need to realize that some physical situations will require more complex calculations to achieve correspondence between theory and experiment. In the case of the Martian moons, and the many other moons very much like them, the “transparency” of small bodies to the ether wind would need to modeled mathematically in some way. Likewise, Saturn and Uranus have extensive and elaborate ring systems which interfere with the flow of the ether wind into and around these planets. Consequently, the simplistic calculations that worked so well for Jupiter’s planet-sized moon, Ganymede, largely fail for the moons of Saturn and Uranus. Again, a more complex mathematical model would need to be worked out that takes the effect of planetary rings into account. Saturn’s large, outer moon, Iapetus, is a notable exception, since it orbits Saturn far from the unruly rings, and is quite large in its own right. In fact, no planet in the Solar System other than Saturn has such a large moon located at such a great distance from its parent planet.
Still, when a planet is ringless, and its moon large, then the ether wind calculations come into their own, and the calculated results closely match reality. For example, Jupiter has a ring system, but it is more like a smoke ring than a solid object; such a diaphanous structure poses no obstacle for the ether wind. And Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury. This vast bulk easily captures the ether wind and allows the big moon to keep pace with the local current of moving space. Jupiter’s other big moons – Io, Europa, and Callisto – behave similarly. Like Jupiter, Neptune also has rings, but the rings are broken up into ring arcs, and the gaps between these arcs allow the ether wind free passage. Therefore, good results were also obtained with ether wind calculations on Neptune’s giant moon, Triton. The largest moons of the dwarf planets Pluto and Eris (Charon and Dysnomia, respectively) are too small too effectively capture the available ether wind, much like the case with the Martian moons, Phobos and Deimos, discussed above. Again, some kind of correction factor that accommodates transparency to the ether wind would be required to properly model the behavior of these tiny moons (although they are large in comparison to the dwarf planets which they orbit). An additional issue that occurs with moons that orbit far from their primaries, and with moons whose planets orbit far from the Sun, is that the high-speed ether wind that propels the planet along starts to influence the orbital periods of moons directly, without the intermediary of an ether wind dilution factor (cube root of ratio of volume of moon’s orbit to volume of planet itself). Normally, the planetary ether wind is reduced by the indicated factor, but at great distances from the planet and/or from the Sun, this relationship evidently breaks down to some extent. However, this phenomenon, too, can probably be mathematically modeled and accounted for. In each successful case, then, an essentially ringless planet, combined with a large moon whose material bulk acts like an “ether wind sail”, so to speak, leads to excellent correspondence between theory and observation.
Discrepancies between ether wind calculations and real-world observations can actually be helpful in identifying the presence or absence of ring systems, small moons vs. large, and retrograde vs. prograde orbital motion. Even the coarse probing of lunar interiors is possible via ether wind gravitational calculations due to opacity/transparency effects with respect to the ether wind. For example, the poor correspondence between ether wind gravitational calculations (had they been available!) and astronomical observations of Uranus’ largest moons could have led to the discovery of rings around Uranus back in the 18th Century, rather than in the 20th! And the fact that the ether wind dilution factor for Triton, the big moon of Neptune, has to be applied twice, in order to obtain agreement between calculations and observations, shows that the giant moon orbits Neptune in retrograde fashion, completely opposite to the direction of the planet’s axial rotation. Jupiter’s four largest moons, the so-called Galilean satellites, must all be relatively large bodies composed of relatively dense materials in order to keep pace with the ether winds that surround and propel them. Out of all of Jupiter’s moons, Ganymede conforms almost perfectly to gravitational ether wind calculations, implying that it is the largest, densest, and most massive member of Jupiter’s satellite family. Ganymede is now thought to possess a molten iron-nickel core, much like the Earth, and space probes have detected a magnetic field around the moon and have confirmed that it is, in fact, the Solar System’s largest moon. Gravitational ether wind calculations could have predicted these discoveries in advance, since only vast quantities of dense, magnetic metals near the middle of the periodic table could effectively block the ether wind, thus allowing the great moon to literally “sail the winds of space”. In cases like this, the ether wind allows us to engage in a sort of x-ray imaging analysis of lunar interiors, thereby helping us to refine our models of the small worlds that orbit the distant, outer planets, about which little is known.
We have now thoroughly investigated the ether wind that propels moons in their orbits around their respective planets. But what about gravity’s equally important secondary aspect, in which the acceleration due to gravity at a planet surface curves the orbit of a distant moon into a circle? We saw earlier that the Sun’s consumption of space at its core curves the orbit of Jupiter and those of the other planets into complete circles. A completely analogous effect should occur with planets and moons, as well. We will start with the acceleration due to gravity at Jupiter’s surface, which is actually its frozen cloud tops, since Jupiter has no solid surface on which to stand, being a gas giant planet. Thanks to numerous Jupiter space probes, we know that the acceleration due to gravity at the edge of Jupiter’s outer atmosphere is 25 m/s^2 (the corresponding value at Earth’s surface is only 9.8 m/s^2, showing that Jupiter generates a fearsome spatial consumption effect at its core). Ganymede, Jupiter’s massive moon, and our favorite test moon for the Jupiter system, orbits Jupiter at a distance of 664,718 miles from Jupiter’s core, while the edge of Jupiter’s outer atmosphere is 43,250 miles from the core (1/2 of Jupiter’s diameter). Dividing the first distance by the second, and squaring the result, gives 236.2. The acceleration due to gravity all the way out at Ganymede’s orbit around Jupiter is therefore 25/236.2, or 0.106 m/s^2. Telescopic observations show that Ganymede completes one orbit around Jupiter in 7.2 days. One-fourth of that time is 1.8 days (remember: ¼ of an orbital period leads to a shift of 90 degrees in orbital motion direction; see the full treatment of Jupiter’s orbital motion above for more information). Converting 1.8 days to seconds gives 155,520 seconds. Multiplying the acceleration due to gravity at Ganymede’s orbit by this period of time gives 16,485 m/s. Dividing by the golden ratio (a.k.a. the divine proportion, or 1.618) equals 10,189 m/s. Converting to miles per hour gives 22,786 miles per hour, which is astonishingly close to the 22,702 miles per hour orbital speed calculated for Ganymede by the lateral ether wind technique, discussed above. Because the two speeds match, whether calculated by the lateral ether wind technique or by the spatial consumption technique, Ganymede has a stable, circular orbit around Jupiter. Neptune’s gigantic moon, Triton, behaves equally well, showing that good results for the ether wind theory of gravity are not limited solely to the planet Jupiter.
It is worth repeating at this point that gravity is actually the subtle interplay between orthogonal ether wind streams. The lateral ether wind, ultimately caused by the rotation of the stellatum, propels planets and moons along in their orbits. The spatial consumption effect in the cores of massive bodies, on the other hand, bends the otherwise linear trajectory of planets and moons into a circular path, at which point the lateral ether wind takes over again at the 90 degree mark, and the process repeats in an endless cycle. The ether wind theory of gravity has an additional advantage over MSS Newtonian gravity in that it finally provides an explanation for the lateral, orbital motion that all moons and planets exhibit. In MSS, the source of this motion is projected billions of years into the distant past and, because space is said to be a perfect vacuum, never runs down frictionally. Once again, each person will have to decide which theory is the most reasonable. Keep in mind that MSS maintains that perpetual motion is impossible, and yet relies upon this very concept to explain the motion of the heavenly bodies. Hmmm.
An interesting side effect of the ether wind gravity technique is that it allows one to calculate the volume of a planet and, therefore, its diameter, if the planet has at least one moon whose orbital period can be observed. Basically, you just perform the above calculations in reverse, ending with the volume of the planet instead of the orbital speed of the moon. Had Pluto’s giant moon, Charon, been visible when the planet was first discovered in 1930, Pluto’s volume and, therefore, its diameter, could have been calculated at once, demonstrating immediately the planet’s diminutive nature. In MSS, on the other hand, the presence of an orbiting moon only allows the calculation of a planet-moon system’s total mass, which must then be converted into a planetary diameter through the agency of a density, which generally isn’t known with certainty. The technique which we have just shown above sidesteps these problems, yielding the planetary volume directly, regardless of chemical composition, spectrum, or reflectivity.
It’s important to realize that, in an ether wind gravitational sense, every object in orbit around the Sun is either a planet or a moon. There are no other alternatives. Bodies that orbit the Sun directly are planets. Bodies that orbit a planet while that planet orbits the Sun are moons. Every celestial body within the Sun’s gravitational grasp falls into one of these two categories, and can be dealt with mathematically as we have shown above, once that decision has been made. Even a tiny asteroid, only one foot across, if it orbits the Sun directly, would be considered a planet for the purposes of ether wind gravitational calculations. The two tiny asteroidal moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, on the other hand, because they clearly orbit that planet, must then be dealt with gravitationally as moons.
Now that we have had an introduction to the ether wind theory of gravity, it is now time to revisit the Sun-Earth-Moon mini-system, to flesh-out how gravity works there.