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Having read enough of 'The Final Theory' to run across some obvious errors even to my simple understanding of orbits, I wanted to share. The author goes into some detail of how expanding bodies in space would approach one another and even explains how when expanding they appear to begin orbiting one another, but then he stops before showing even one half of an orbit. If gravity or some sort of attraction between masses is illusion, then what makes two bodies revolve about a common center of mass?
I feel this book was only written to make a name and money for the author and stir up controversy, (as so many other books). While he has certainly done some serious homework to explain away all great ideas before his as incorrect or flawed, he certainly hasn't convinced me of anything. The whole notion may not be wrong, but it is also untestable. Convenient. If every atom in the universe expanded at precisely the same rate, how would we ever be able to prove it?
Am I wrong about his error in explaining orbits, or did I miss something? I must admit, I skipped around a bit after discovering this fatal flaw in his reasoning. By the way, this is my first post here.