Originally posted by AllderdiceI wasn't trying to do destructive criticism, but Einstein never said that!
I never said that it was a direct quotation from the words of Einstein, I just said that everything is relative and put a famous scientist behind this phrase to enforce my argument taking into the concideration the fact that Einstein ACTUALLY said it. Please don't post misleading statements if you do not have proof behind them, especially when a person is ...[text shortened]... t. This is not a fight for the best explanation and not a good place for destructive criticism.
http://www.eequalsmcsquared.auckland.ac.nz/sites/emc2/tl/philosophy/is-everything-relative-including-truth.cfm
Originally posted by EinsteinMindThat would be a sight - world's fattest people dunking over Vince Carter.
gravity sucks, but it's the only thing holding us down. If gravity were never here we would walk off the earth. The effects of free fall would be long lasting, and we would no longer have to worry about diet programs because we would no longer have any weight.
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Originally posted by kbaumenthat would be great. no one in the NBA would be better than anyone else. And shaq and yao would gang up on all the fat people outdoing them and they would squash them...
That would be a sight - world's fattest people dunking over Vince Carter.
Or t-mac would shoot them...
Originally posted by EinsteinMindWell actually it goes a bit deeper than that, if there were no gravitational force, matter would never have clumped together after the big bang so our present UNIVERSE would not be here, just be a big cloud of ever expanding plasma cooled down to molecular gasses. No stars, no black holes, no galaxies and for sure no planet earth.
gravity sucks, but it's the only thing holding us down. If gravity were never here we would walk off the earth. The effects of free fall would be long lasting, and we would no longer have to worry about diet programs because we would no longer have any weight.
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You are all forgetting Scott Adams' alternate theory of gravity (which is a perfectly accurate theory, and only cast aside by Occams razor)
Instead of the existence of gravity, everything is getting bigger. If you jump, you keep going, but the earth catches up to you so to you it looks like you fell back to earth.
For more info see 'The Dilbert Principle' by Scott Adams.
Great book.
Originally posted by agrysonThat's a pretty interesting theory....but I've yet to see it account for multi-bodied orbit complexes.
You are all forgetting Scott Adams' alternate theory of gravity (which is a perfectly accurate theory, and only cast aside by Occams razor)
Instead of the existence of gravity, everything is getting bigger. If you jump, you keep going, but the earth catches up to you so to you it looks like you fell back to earth.
For more info see 'The Dilbert Principle' by Scott Adams.
Great book.
Gravitation theory, however, does to a fairly precise degree,
(not as precise as some would like....but pretty close to inverse sqare)
I know little of math or physics, but i have heard it said that gravity is a warp in space in which the earth sits. Like a very heavy weight placed in the middle of a trampoline. When you roll a ball into the warp it will go around and eventually strike the heavy weight ( Earth).
How can this be unless the Warp is somehow infinite in all directions? Is this an old theory? I know that now they say gravity has to do with String Theory.
I view it as there is a great force everywhere on space, pressing on all direction, from all direction. the only thing that slows down this force is mass, the greater the mass, the less force will be able to penetrate it. Using that theory, there has been several scientist able to develop a machine that makes gravity 1-2% less efective, if they can capture these forces, and redirect it, then that would take care of our energy crisis.
Originally posted by flyUnityThis force is just a hypothesis. We don't know if this is true.
I view it as there is a great force everywhere on space, pressing on all direction, from all direction. the only thing that slows down this force is mass, the greater the mass, the less force will be able to penetrate it. Using that theory, there has been several scientist able to develop a machine that makes gravity 1-2% less efective, if they can capture these forces, and redirect it, then that would take care of our energy crisis.
If it is true, we don't know anything about it.
If we knew anything about it, we would certainly not have a clue how to redirect it in order to tap it for energy.
There are more immediate principles to solve the energy crisis.