Scientific Rules Of Evidence.

Pardon? What does that mean James?"just a theory" -- like the two theories of gravity, like the atomic theory, like the germ theory? Maybe you need to figure out what a theory is and/or put forward your definition.Turn results on and off? Like shut gravity off?

James you sound like a software engineer. Use the word "theory" here and think that you have something like a scientific theory is an enormous streach. It is so enormous as to be wrong.The speed of light in a vacuum is still constant. You have misunderstood the experiments you have been reading about.Your comments about the moon's behaviour shows a futher misunderstanding of the mechanics involved.see: http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=124The tidal forces on the earth (as has been discussed elsewhere ) are slowin the earth's rotation. This is putting energy into the moons revolution about the earth and causing it to spiral outward.