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Simply stated, the RB-Effect is brought about by the continual are correlated with the lunar synodic period—indication that rotation of the Earth within the gravitational fields of the Sun, the they are driven by tidal forces...[i.e., the RB-Effect] Moon, and—on 5/5/2000—by the alignment of the combined Bowles describes "fretting" as a heat-producing wear phenome- planets in our solar system. Bowles writes:! non that exists where low-amplitude vibrations exist between two We rotate, tilted at an angle of 23° 27’, while the moon, mating surfaces, adding that it is adhesive in nature and is usually pulling relentlessly at us, circles. With no change in time we accompanied by corrosion that produces a chemical debris in its orbit the sun and again we experience the relentless pull of path. Vibration, he stresses, is its essential causative factor, and gravity. The combined gravitational effects from the sun and he gives this as an example:* the moon, and to a lesser extent that of the planets, pull at the You've purchased a brand new pick-up truck and have crust from this oblique angle, relentlessly wearing the crust installed a bed-liner to keep the bed clean. Now, six months down until it is wrested from its moorings and fails from later, you are taking the liner out to clean under it and, lo fatigue. We're being torn apart. It is from the effects of and behold, the bed looks like it has the measles. Rotational Bending that a weakening bond in a zone just Everywhere the liner touched the bed, the paint is worn down below the crust, called the ‘plastic zone’, forms and allows to bare metal and only an unidentifiable residue remains. the crust to separate from the inner mantle. Once the inner The condition was caused by fretting: slow vibrational ties between the crust and the inner mantle are broken, cen - agitation between the liner and the truck bed. trifugal forces acting on the great masses of ice at the poles Fretting, Bowles reminds us, isn't just a condition, it is a solu- move the crust [toward the equator] in a crashing search for tion. The unifying principle that bonds the theories of mantle equilibrium. Eventually stability is found and the [major roots, their origin and the condition of isostatic equilibrium shifting] event comes to a halt, but the effects are devastat - together with the mechanism of "underplating", associated with ing. The most devastating are the waters. Hundred-mile-an- the chemical debris left by friction—is "fretting", and Bowles hour walls of ocean water sweep the latitudes, killing every - calls the process Debris Controlled Hydrostatics. thing in their wake. The destruction is beyond imagination, If we applied debris-controlled hydrostatics to test whether the but there have been survivors. Himalayas were rising because of root growth rather than because Bowles reminds the reader of a collision event with the that the Moon's orbit about the Indian subcontinent (as suggest- Earth is not synchronous with : ed by the prevalent theory), then the Earth's orbit about the Sun, Tension Compression we would expect the average and the Earth responds in vibra- Clearly, there is no of the Earth which result from the occurrence of large earth - agreement! quake. The amplitudes of the fluctuation we have observed In contrast to the multiple-answer theories, both of these Compression 32 - NEXUS APRIL —- MAY 1999