Prologue
Glossary
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Autodidact: Someone who is self-taught.
Barycenter: The gravitational center of orbit between two objects. If an object is in orbit about another object, the center of orbit is not the center of either object's mass. Because of the small amount of mass in the planet Earth compared to the Sun, the barycenter of that orbit is very close to the gravitational center of the Sun's mass. In the case of the orbit of Jupiter about the Sun, the barycenter is 50,000 km above the surface of the Sun. If our solar system was binary (two stars of nearly equal mass), the barycenter would be close to half the distance between the two stars.
Epicenter: The location on the perimeter of a planet directly above an Earthquake's hypocenter.
Equilibrium: A state in which opposing forces or influences are balanced.
Genius: Genius is the ability to synthesize the unexpected from the mundane, to absorb vast quantities of information from a variety of sources and put it all together in unusual ways. IQ is a mere test score.
Horizontal Gravity: Gravitational force along a plane; that plane being perpendicular to a line drawn through the gravitational center of a body of mass. When discussing planet Earth, a span a thousand miles across the external perimeter can effectively be deemed to be horizontal.
Hypocenter: The center of an Earthquake. The hypocenter typically varies from a few kilometers beneath the surface of a planet to as far as 1,000 km beneath the surface.
Hypothesis: An explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further research.
Hills Cloud: Hills Cloud
IQ: IQ is a mere test score. Genius is the ability to synthesize the unexpected from the mundane, to absorb vast quantities of information from a variety of sources and put it all together in unusual ways.
Omnidirectional: receiving from or transmitting to in all directions.
Protoplanetary disk (hypothesis): Gaseous disk surrounding a newly formed star from which planets form.
Regional gravity (hypothesis): Before primordial gases can accrete due to gravity in a gaseous volume (sphere), regional gravity is the only thing that can cause those gases to compress. If you take a sphere a light year or so in diameter in which primordial gases fill that sphere with those gases still expanding from a Big Bang explosion, divide that sphere into concentric regions. The outermost concentric regions will have up to 95% of the mass of that sphere, and hence, generate enough gravity to compress any primordial gases long before the force of gravity generated by individual gas particles at the center of the sphere would become strong enough to do so.
Theory: A proposition in which an accumulation of evidence exists to classify the idea as being more than just a hypothesis.
When conducting scientific research, which term should be used: hypothesis or theory? Using the term hypothesis means the idea has limited evidence to validate the idea. Being labeled a theory indicates there is enough evidence to indicate the thoery might be valid. As to any hypothesis, can a hypothesis actually exist without a sufficient volume of evidence to at least develop the hypothesis? But then, if a hypothesis has a sufficient amount of evidence to be proposed, wouldn't it then qualify to be classified as a theory?
How can a hypothesis ever exist if it has insufficient evidence for that hypothesis to be classified as a theory? It almost seems that, a hypothesis is barely more than coming up with an idea via the random throwing of a set of dice. Regardless, I will try to use the term hypothesis in this book to ensure the reading audience knows my research has not been peer reviewed (yet), that my claims may be contrary to what mainstream science is willing to accept. However, I should also note, mainstream scientists frequently use the term hypothesis for many of their better known concepts, with many of their theories still yet to be proven.