Inverse Square Law

Thanks!

Excellent answer John!

"Excellent answer John!"

I'd bet someone will come along and not read and check out #1 answer and try to improve on the excellent explanation already available for the trouble of reading it !

I think that it should be possible to make John's excellent answer more difficult to understand if we just inject a little string theory and other astrophysical flotsam into it:

1.) It is only true because we perceive the arrow of time to be unidirectional.

2.) It is only true because space is not significantly curved in our neighborhood.

3.) It is only true because we insist on pretending that our universe has only three dimensions.

I need more coffee, but I'm sure there must be hundreds more ...

Gotta give the guys at Georgia State University Dept. of Physics & Astronomy big respec' here.

Yes, it's a great site, to which I try to refer free-energy nutcases as frequently as possible.

And, as it happens, my biology background seems to qualify me to improve on this in a minor way - NO, the skunk's odor will not obey the inverse square law. Debate ended. (I can provide proof to any doubters, by the way, I have a skunk available...)