Just a couple of commets. First about gravity. Read a book. Gravity itself is a local curvature of spacetime much more pronounced than any general curvature caused by a non-Euclidean structure to spacetime. And, as outlined in the general theory of relativity, has been shown to provide highly accurate measurements of the effects of gravity. Plus, even if space is non-Euclidean, on scales of significance to us it is perfectly reasonable to use flat approximations just like for it is still reasonable to use Newton type calculations when those of relativity are much more accurate. This detail of accuracy is generally lost on the scales that humans ordinarily deal with.
Now your rotation stuff. Uh, huh? a "min of arc per second" does not translate into "mi/sec". But how do you propose to use this? A start that we currently think of as being say 4 light years away translates into a distance that we can understand. What does this rotation stuff translate into that has some sort of similar meaning such as an actual distance?
I looked up this Bruce Cathie guy. Where do these people come from? Have you gone to the web sites that claim all the laws of physics are wrong? Or that EInstein didn't have a clue? This guy saw a flying saucer. A couple of things from the first link that came up (I don't know if he wrote the first one but whoever did is pretty stupid):
"I realised that an all-out atomic war was an impossibility. Both sides could precalculate well in advance the time and positions of atomic attack. Plus the fact that only certain geometric locations could be detonated anyhow. A logical war cannot be considered under these circumstances. This could be the explanation for the proliferation of conventional weapons in modern warfare."
I have worked with nulcear weapon allocation programs and other things of this nature. So let us look at some of things this says.
"I realised that an all-out atomic war was an impossibility. Both sides could precalculate well in advance the time and positions of atomic attack." WHAT DOES THE SECOND SENTENCE HAVE TO DO WITH THE FIRST? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. AND NO YOU CAN NOT PRECALCULATE THE TIME AND POSITIONS OF ATOMIC ATTACK. IF BY "POSITIONS" HE MEANS TARGETS THEN THERE ARE EXTENSIVE TARGET DATA BASES THAT HAVE BEEN COMPILED. FOR MOST TARGETS ANYONE CAN DO THIS. AS FAR AS TIME, ALL YOU CAN DO IS GUESS SINCE YOU ARE NOT PRIVY TO THE OTHER SIDES ATTACK PLAN. ALL YOU CAN DO IS MAKE A BEST ESTIMATE.
"Plus the fact that only certain geometric locations could be detonated anyhow. " NOW HOLD ON THERE BOY. I CAN DROP A NUKE AT ANY POINT ON THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH (WITHIN THE CIRCULAR ERROR PROBABLE OF THE WEAPON SYSTEM THAT IS).
Anyway, iditiotic ramblings.
Now onto the NZ guy and what he says. First of all, although my search was rather short, I do not see any sort of acedemic credentials. Not a BS let alone an MS or a PhD. Or any references to articles published in accepted scholarly journals that must meet peer review before being accepted. Of course when you are talking "The Harmonic Conquest of Space" there probably aren't too many peers for that.
And now for a good one. "My life changed dramatically in 1952. This was the year that I saw my first UFO. " Not just one but the FIRST. Granted he may have seen some unidentified atmospheric effect or some man made object or who knows. But UFO? These people and there UFO crap get on my nerves. SHOW ME A REAL UFO AND A UFO DUDE OR SHUT UP!
As for you. Get some books on relativity, astronomy, physics, cosmology and let the real stuff swamp you and not some interent dork that hasn't a clue about the real world.
My thoughts? Complete waste of time to read nonsense like this other than it might provide some amusement at just how stupid people can be and yet try to sound so profound. To anyone with just a little knowledge this stuff is easily seen to be the utter crap that it is. I was walking through Georgetown in DC one night and this homeless guy - who incidentally we gave some food to - handed us a nine or ten page document on this theories of the moon, the solar system and the universe. Homeless guy on the street. Maybe he moved to NZ.