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re: The Solar Field (IMF) and the Planets
gbaikie — (archived)

"So in simpler words if Mercury disappeared the Earth would pick up a charge - we would 'inherit' more EM energy."

Obviously, more nonsense.
It would be like expecting some significant effect if 100 people at a rock concert raised their hands- Or "Don't hold up your sign, man, I can't hear the music."

The Sun is a very big thing.
The space just within our solar system is also big.

"THE THOUSAND-YARD MODEL or, The Earth as a Peppercorn
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Sun- any ball, diameter 8.00 inches
Mercury- a pinhead, diameter 0.03 inch
Venus- a peppercorn, diameter 0.08 inch
Earth- a second peppercorn
Mars- a second pinhead
Jupiter- a chestnut or a pecan, diameter 0.90 inch
Saturn- a hazelnut or an acorn, diameter 0.70 inch
Uranus- a peanut or coffeebean, diameter 0.30 inch
Neptune- a second peanut or coffeebean
Pluto- a third pinhead (or smaller, since Pluto is the smallest planet)
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The Earth is eight thousand miles wide! The peppercorn is eight hundredths of an inch wide. What about the Sun? It is eight hundred thousand miles wide. The ball representing it is eight inches wide. So, one inch in the model represents a hundred thousand miles in reality.
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Now, what is the distance between the Earth and the Sun? It is 93 million miles. In the model, this will be 26 yards.
http://www.noao.edu/education/peppercorn/pcmain.html

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