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"If we take the moon's current rate of recession and project it back in time" is a very straight forward way of saying, lets assume the moon receeded from the e
by soliton4 4y ago
"If we take the moon's current rate of recession and project it back in time"
is a very straight forward way of saying, lets assume the moon receeded from the earth at the current rate.
- snowwrestler 4y agoNo it’s not because you are projecting backward in time in the presence of a gravitational field that varies with square of radius. The path of the moon away from the Earth is not a straight line, it is a tightly wound spiral.
- soliton4 4y agogiven your insight in the matter, would you care to post the correct calculation then?