Just musing about things I’ve been learning..

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been trying to get a better handle on how gravity works. The amount of information and math involved with gravity is truly staggering.

I keep trying to wrap my mind around things like the fact that technically there is no 0 possible in the math for gravitational pull..so technically the edge of gravity for any particular object goes out to infinity. Although, you do reach a point of negligibility ..say 1%. Also, other equal or stronger gravity wells can end the reach of another gravity well. Considering how a lot of these gravity wells move around, that creates some interesting chaotic lines of deliniation in gravity wells.

Which led me to an interesting article about how nasa scientists are trying to take advantage of sweet spots in the chaos of gravity between the earth and the moon in order to send ships to the moon that don’t use as much fuel or that even use electric/magnetim as a power source. Pretty interesting stuff.

For the first time, I actually saw an article that actually describes overlapping gravity wells the way I more less picture them. Like mini whirlpools on the edges of even bigger whirlpools. I suspect that gravity at the far edge of the smaller object is stronger close to the larger object, and considerably weaker at the opposite far edge of gravity of the smaller object. Yet. I suspect gravity at the far opposite edge of the smaller objects gravity well is somewhat stronger than what the gravity from the larger object would be at that spot than if the smaller object weren’t there. If you assume 1% as the weakest level of gravity for a planet, is there a math formula for figuring out what gravity is on the edge of its gravity well closer to the larger object, and at the edge of its gravity well furthest from the larger object? Would you base that math off 1% of apparent gravity as it is with all gravity wells present? Or would you still have to use other math to figure out what stand alone 1% of that gravity well is.

When all of the planets are aligned, does the width of our solar system get considerably bigger? Is there a significant increase in the strength of the overall gravity well of the solar system when that happens?

The reason I ask, is that I picture each gravity well as a sort of stretch point of the flat universe. What happens if you start stretching them on top of each other and next to each other close enough to overlap? Does the universe actually start to get thinner and lose possible cohesion at some of those spots?

I hear that scientists often say that dark energy is causing our universe to expand. But what if its the other way around? What if dark energy is what happens when portions of the universe have expanded too much? I have described them as universal stretch marks before..but what if its actually worse than that..what if they are universal stress points. Where the universe is stretching to the point of nearly breaking? Don’t worry..I’m not scared of that happening any time soon.. I just wonder about its implications in general.