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Can You Escape the Force of Gravity? [What is gravity?]
universetoday ^ | April 7, 2014 | Fraser Cain on

Posted on 04/07/2014 9:17:43 AM PDT by BenLurkin

There’s no end to it. Gravity appears to be madly greedy and long armed. Members of the Virgo Super cluster are connected to each other, and they’re dozens of millions of light-years apart. Objects in the Pisces-Cetus Super cluster complex are even connected to each other by our invisible and obnoxiously possessive friend. And they are hundreds of millions of light years apart…

In fact, you’re so popular that you are gravitationally pulled towards even most distant object in the observable Universe. And they, in turn, are linked to you. As a result, without the outward expansion and acceleration of the Universe, everything would fall inward to a common center of gravity. Newton thought that gravity was instantaneous and if the Sun disappeared, the Earth would immediately fly away. Einstein realized that gravity is distortions of spacetime caused by mass. And as it turns out, gravity moves at the speed of light.

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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: gravity; stringtheory
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To: cuban leaf

“I do remember reading that “push” accounts for some odd gravitaional properties that are not explained by the pull theory.”

It most definitely is a push that can bend light itself.


61 posted on 04/08/2014 6:18:51 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: Boogieman

‘Yes, please spare me. I’m still waiting for you to provide any experimental verification of the ideas you are advocating. Until you can come up with that, don’t bother sending me anything else.’

Like Eddingtons?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_general_relativity


62 posted on 04/08/2014 6:24:22 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: FlipWilson

Well, yes, but one that demonstrates the assertions that the other poster was making, rather than GR.


63 posted on 04/08/2014 7:12:27 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: KC Burke

I was stunned, till I saw the game status meter on the lower right hand corner.


64 posted on 04/08/2014 8:27:37 AM PDT by Paradox (Unexpected things coming for the next few years.)
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To: Paradox

Is that what that bar reading is down there. Can you tell what game that this might have been modeled on to make it seem real?


65 posted on 04/08/2014 10:03:15 AM PDT by KC Burke (Officially since Memorial Day they are the Gimmie-crat Party.ha)
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To: Boogieman
The theories don’t work, but that is the idea behind them.

You're right--because those theories don't explain orbits.

66 posted on 04/08/2014 10:10:40 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: Paradox

Are real Marine f-35 has the two upper openings that open. The rear opening is biparting and open to the side, the front intake opening opens like a rear hinged round lid.

I don’t see either one of those door(s)/openings on the top of the plane depicted when I pause it during its flip.

Snoopes things it was a very good rendering from Battlefield2.


67 posted on 04/08/2014 10:20:07 AM PDT by KC Burke (Officially since Memorial Day they are the Gimmie-crat Party.ha)
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To: KC Burke

“Are real...” should have read “a real...”


68 posted on 04/08/2014 10:23:48 AM PDT by KC Burke (Officially since Memorial Day they are the Gimmie-crat Party.ha)
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To: BenLurkin

If gravity eventually wins out and all matter is pulled back together, will that point be the same as the point in which it all started?


69 posted on 04/08/2014 10:33:03 AM PDT by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: FlipWilson
Einstein also discovered that time is actually money
70 posted on 04/08/2014 10:56:16 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: onedoug

Hopefully, I'll eventually be in Heaven and learn some further details from God. Though I don't want to seem impatient.

You and me both, FRiend. There's a pretty substantial playground out there, and I'm more than a little excited to try out the equipment myself.


71 posted on 04/09/2014 1:13:11 PM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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