Re: PHYSICS/SPACE: Gravity/Time broken?

From: Craig Johnson (johnscr@ms.com)
Date: Wed Sep 29 1999 - 14:26:25 MDT


Apparently, some believe this is caused by a planetoid's gravity:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_460000/460095.stm

Don't know whether there is a consensus about this.

Webb_S wrote:

> Do ya suppose there's a connection between this phenomenon and the
> cosmological constant? If there is indeed an exotic repulsive energy
> filling empty space could it perhaps be ever so slightly pushing these
> spacecraft back toward the sun? I haven't seen this mentioned as an
> explanation, but it seems so obvious...
>
> Maybe it even has something to do with the apparent tendency for giant
> planets to migrate inward toward their stars.
>
> Hey, who knows?
>
> Steven

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