Gravity, Time
I just had a thought about gravity. If gravity is not a constant, if it is a wavering force, dependent on either time or distance, the Doppler shift of light and the consistency of orbit and tendency of things to clump in a circle around things would be explained. If there are synchronization points of varying, but predictable "size" along the path between two objects, some particular things might happen. Let's say these points are not uniform. They might look like a wave of strong force and weak force as they radiate away from the source. as two entities approach each other, they cross these arias of stronger and waker gravity. As the two entities approach each other, the gravity well they create together begins to collapse and there is a point at which a third object will be attracted to the center of the two objects as it approaches them from a distance. However, if the third, smaller, object comes between the two objects, it will be suspended between the gravity fields. However if a large object passes between the two, it's kinetic energy causes the two original objects to clap into one another. It seems there is a bit of "slop" in the equation.
As I wave my hand in the air, it takes time to move from one point to the other. Without space, there is no need for time, where is there to go? With out time, you can't move through space. My had would be frozen as though in a block of matter. Maybe matter, space, and time are the three states of Ether.
This kind of thinking is where string theory comes from. "Dammit! there has got to be an answer!" People like me sit up nights trying to figure it out.

Good Bye Low-Carb

The popularity of low-carb diets, which shun foods like bread and pasta in favor of proteins like meat and cheese, soared at the beginning of 2004 as an estimated 9.1 percent of Americans took up the regimens. Since then, however, the number of consumers on diets like Atkins fell to 3.6 percent in November, according to The NPD Group, a market research firm. Sales growth of low-carb packaged foods have also slowed after big food makers scrambled earlier this year to roll out low-carb versions of everything from cookies to cereal. ... "The overwhelming message we would love people to take home is that the Atkins Nutritional Approach is a life style to achieve permanent weight control," said Colette Heimowitz, the New York-based company's vice president of education and research. Reuters

Well duh. If your lifestyle has made you fat, you have to change your lifestyle to make you thin. It doesn't matter what you do, you are going to have to keep doing it, for it to work forever. Hello!!!! If you can't live with yourself the way you are, you have to change.If the change is not permanent, the result is not either.