Apples and Oranges

New Scientist magazine is this really cool science magazine that's written by people who are so entertaining they could write comic books, yet they choose to explain modern scientific breakthroughs. The April 18, 2009 issue has an article all about a couple of scientists who are assuming that there may be some sort of cyclic force field in the solar system. They think that this force field somehow affects the Sun's gravitational pull so that things will fall at different rates at different times of the year. Also, different things will be affected by the field differently. This creates a lack of symmetry in things.

Just a bunch of subtle forces (Scientists, imperialists that they are, see only one force called the "X-Field" and sort of see it as running in straight lines through the universe). We all know it's a bunch of planets orbiting the Sun in ellipses. They screw things up in a pretty regular fashion but also screw things up in an odd fashion because their orbits aren't perfectly circular and they are also spinning around the Sun and not the Earth. So we're looking at them from our Point of View.

And the black holes, I don't know what they're doing, but Philip Sedgwick does...

The article is called: Gravity's Seasons, Does an Apple Fall Faster in the Spring? Marcus Chown investigates." p. 28 - 31. Apr. 18, 2009. more at www.newscientist.com/topic/cosmology.

I won't mention the Scientists' names because I'm sure they wouldn't want to Google themselves to this blog, but I find what they are doing to be awesome incredible for the future of Astrology. Granted, I may be misinterpreting most of it.

From the article:

"'One way we might find evidence of the X-field is to look for small differences in gravity's power at different times of the year. 'Apples might fall at different rates in different seasons,' say (Awesome Anonymous Scientist Dude with Eastern European name), though he can't predict when apples might falls (sic) faster. 'It will be a cyclical effect.'"

Science Dude, I am so blowing you hugs and kisses right now.

"Another possibility that (Anonymous Scientist) and (his Assistant) raise is that the X-field affects different particles in different ways."

-- teehee, yeah you got your Jupiter field and your Mars field and when they square and the Moon hits them while Pluto rocks the North Node in Taurus, now that's the Gravitational pull, baby. It will hit the Tauruses and the Venusians more than the Virgos, though. Check it out.