The Common-Man’s Cosmology

Archaeology (in its widest sense) is the daughter of the cosmology of the universe. The physical evidence lies in abundance around all of us. The mission of archaeology is to order this evidence into a connected narrative. The successful achievement of this goal follows directly from an interpretation of the work of Isaac Newton, which appears to have been neglected. Gravity is the most basic of all forces as the image of an apple falling on Isaac's head demonstrates. The perception of a normal force directed towards a central massy object appears unassailable, however, look a little closer, there may also be a tangential force, which happened to be of negligible magnitude for Newton [1]. This adjunct force of gravity, which arises from the frictional forces of the orbiting bodies, was neglected in the classical gravitational model.