Gravity - is it really there?

[JohnEmmett]

thought up by scientist, so their absurd spinning ball of water would be believed.

science and religion are partially right, neither is totally right


hence any extreme view is misguided


which can be seen, at least partially, by either side

 

[sjastro]

There's a lot of droll posts out of Emmet
And I can't see a way we can stem it.
His words seem so vague,
Just as nice as the plague,
It's the price that we pay when we slum it.

Thank goodness one of the motivations for the creation of this subforum is to isolate the rest of the site from lousy poetry.

 

[d taylor]

science and religion are partially right, neither is totally right


hence any extreme view is misguided

I never speak about religion in general unless that is the topic of discussion. My frame of reference is always the God of the Bible and what is stated in the Bible. And if it is about creation, that is usually contrast against sciences created version.

Unless i am discussing Bible passages against the metaphorical view of the Bible, which then it is basically Bible only.

 

[JohnEmmett]

I never speak about religion in general

you could say Bible is one side, science is the other


with the same logic, neither is correct, both are correct


each is partially correct……

 

[Yttrium]

Because you are full of water and dirt

So what? That makes me dense, not heavy.

To be heavy, I need something to pull me down.

 

[JohnEmmett]

His words seem so vague,
Just as nice as the plague

To the one, we are an odor of death and demise; to the other, a fragrance that brings life.

2 Corinthians 2:16

 

[d taylor]

So what? That makes me dense, not heavy.

To be heavy, I need something to pull me down.

only on an assumed spinning ball do you need pulling down.

 

[essentialsaltes]

only on an assumed spinning ball do you need pulling down.

If Newton's first law applies...
and if there is no force pulling down...
then objects should travel in straight lines after they leave a ramp. (Apart from a little air resistance that would slowly retard their motion until they hung motionless among the clouds.)

 

[JohnEmmett]

only on an assumed spinning ball do you need pulling down.

science reveals more than the Bible is aware of


the Bible reveals more than science is aware of

 

[Ponderous Curmudgeon]

only on an assumed spinning ball do you need pulling down.

only on an assumed spinning ball do you need pulling down.

so what does dense have that not dense does not, and why is this difference relevant?

 

[Ponderous Curmudgeon]

If Newton's first law applies...
and if there is no force pulling down...
then objects should travel in straight lines after they leave a ramp. (Apart from a little air resistance that would slowly retard their motion until they hung motionless among the clouds.)

better question, is what is his replacement for newtons first law or as you gif says the law of splat.

 

[JohnEmmett]

gravity is a reason for wonder and faith in God


whereas you are (here) entirely missing this

 

[Ponderous Curmudgeon]

gravity is a reason for wonder and faith in God


whereas you are (here) entirely missing this

dews death will test everyone's philosophical growly

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first attempt to see where he is coming from.

 

[JohnEmmett]

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[Yttrium]

only on an assumed spinning ball do you need pulling down.

Then I'm not heavy, and I have no business falling back to the ground when I jump up.

 

[JohnEmmett]

Then I'm not heavy, and I have no business falling back to the ground when I jump up.

we still don't know what is causing gravity


nor is it necessary to know

 

[Hans Blaster]

we still don't know what is causing gravity


nor is it necessary to know

Spacetime curvature induced by the presence of masses and energy. It's been around for a century.

 

[JohnEmmett]

Spacetime curvature induced by the presence of masses and energy. It's been around for a century.

we do not know what gravity is

 

[Hans Blaster]

we do not know what gravity is

Gravity is a pseudoforce of the form I just stated.

 

[JohnEmmett]

Gravity is a pseudoforce of the form I just stated.

"physicists … know that nobody knows what gravity is, because they know that they don’t know what gravity is."

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