Is this how gravity really works?

[Kjelete]

I tried to find out some years ago how gravity really works, why it attracts other objects:

I think it`s like if you take a magnet, it absorbs energy and it sends it in orbits around the core. Like waves, but everything within the wave get`s pulled in to the center, because the gravity-waves penerates your body or object. The closer to to core, the shorter the wave is and you get pulled in-wards faster and faster as the wave get`s shorter.

In empty air, vacuum, there`s no air above it to push it down, so it falls more or less freely. Do you get my idea, the gravity-ripples penetrates the body and psychially pulls it to the center of the magnet:

I was originally made fun of for this idea, they ridiculed me. But you can actually observe that if you rub a strain of cotton for example, the closer your finger is to the strain of cotton, the faster it pulls into your finger. I made a basic picture to show

 

[Warden_of_the_Storm]

To answer the question posed in the thread title: no.

For the rest... no. That's not gravity.

 

[Kjelete]

To answer the question posed in the thread title: no.

For the rest... no. That's not gravity.

Is there really any other theories on how it works?

 

[Warden_of_the_Storm]

Is there really any other theories on how it works?

Okay, just to be clear: what are you meaning when you use the word theory? Because if you mean like 'an idea', then no, that's not a theory.

 

[Paulos23]

The effects of gravity are well observed and known. But a theory on how it works? Still being worked on.

 

[Warden_of_the_Storm]

The effects of gravity are well observed and known. But a theory on how it works? Still being worked on.

I mean, there is general relativity.

 

[Paulos23]

I mean, there is general relativity.

True, but it is still more about the effect of mass on space than how it works. We know any mass has pull with other mass, and this curves space. Now that might be the "pull", but I am not so sure.

 

[Kjelete]

True, but it is still more about the effect of mass on space than how it works. We know any mass has pull with other mass, and this curves space. Now that might be the "pull", but I am not so sure.

Curvature of space hasn`t been proven, I think. This "fabric" of space they talk about, it isn`t proven. It`s only been speculated about because something holds galaxies together

 

[Warden_of_the_Storm]

True, but it is still more about the effect of mass on space than how it works. We know any mass has pull with other mass, and this curves space. Now that might be the "pull", but I am not so sure.

Fair enough.

 

[Warden_of_the_Storm]

Curvature of space hasn`t been proven, I think. This "fabric" of space they talk about, it isn`t proven. It`s only been speculated about because something holds galaxies together

But there's a lot more going for it than your idea. Like... could you even create a test to back up your claim?

 

[Kjelete]

But there's a lot more going for it than your idea. Like... could you even create a test to back up your claim?

I mentioned it actually. If you rub a strain of cotton, you see that the closer your finger is to the strain, the faster the strain pulls to your finger

 

[Warden_of_the_Storm]

I mentioned it actually. If you rub a strain of cotton, you see that the closer your finger is to the strain, the faster the strain pulls to your finger

That's not gravity. That's friction. Do you even know what gravity is?

 

[Kjelete]

That's not gravity. That's friction. Do you even know what gravity is?

That was my theory, that a magnet for example sends ripples in orbits around the core from the energy it absorbs from it`s enviroment. The closer you are to the magnet, the shorter the ripple, hencer you get pulled inwards faster and faster

 

[Warden_of_the_Storm]

That was my theory, that a magnet for example sends ripples in orbits around the core from the energy it absorbs from it`s enviroment. The closer you are to the magnet, the shorter the ripple, hencer you get pulled inwards faster and faster

That's not a theory, that's a hypothesis, and one you really have no way of testing to show that it could be correct or not.

 

[Kjelete]

That's not a theory, that's a hypothesis, and one you really have no way of testing to show that it could be correct or not.

But everyone else comes up with theories and hypotheis they can`t prove, like dark matter and curvature of space, for example

 

[Ophiolite]

That's not a theory, that's a hypothesis, and one you really have no way of testing to show that it could be correct or not.

I disagree. It does not reach the level of a hypothesis; it doesn't even deliver the features of a speculation. The best one can say is that it is an uncontrolled spasm of distressed neurons.

 

[Kjelete]

I disagree. It does not reach the level of a hypothesis; it doesn't even deliver the features of a speculation. The best one can say is that it is an uncontrolled spasm of distressed neurons.

No glory for coming up with the very first theory about gravity in the world

 

[Hans Blaster]

But everyone else comes up with theories and hypotheis they can`t prove, like dark matter and curvature of space, for example

Both have been conclusively demonstrated.

 

[Warden_of_the_Storm]

But everyone else comes up with theories and hypotheis they can`t prove, like dark matter and curvature of space, for example

That's not even true in the slightest since the people talking about dark matter and the curvature of space are putting in the work to find evidence that those things exist.

Your idea... does nothing, and I am being bluntly honest in that regard.

 

[Warden_of_the_Storm]

No glory for coming up with the very first theory about gravity in the world

But it's no the very first theory about gravity in the world. It's not a theory or a hypothesis. It's an idea. A quite rambling and very difficult to prove idea.

Seriously: what would an experiment to show this look like?