Please tell me you're kidding. You base your understanding of the
universe on text at the homepage of some guy named "T Collins"?
Listen, red_mist, there's a thing called the "peer-reveiwed literature",
and it exists for a very good reason. Words like "quack", "charlatan",
"gullible", "naive" and "misguided" also exist for a very good reason.
The former is a kind of cultural "immune response" against the latter.
Where you get your information from is as important as the information
itself.
Let me try and clear something up:
To make a "spinning top" of one Earth mass /precess/ through 90 degrees
would require a very close approach by an extremely high gravitational
gradient (moving at right angles over the north pole, for example). Picture
something of stellar mass passing within the orbit of Luna, as a very
rough approximation. What you're talking about is about 15 to 18
/orders of magnitude/ too small. It's also the wrong kind of gravitational
force. You need a /moving/ gradient, such that a differential drag on a
part of the Earth results in a force vector that's perpendicular to the
axis of rotation.
But don't take my word for it (which is the whole point here, isn't it?).
>Only the weak are blind when the mist descends
>red_mist
Only the uncritical are marks when the con-men come to town.
(Sorry. Couldn't help it.)
Dan