“Push” implies repulsion versus attraction. If that’s what gravity did, we’d fly off the earth rather than stay on it, and meteors would not land on the planet.
“Push” implies repulsion versus attraction. If that’s what gravity did, we’d fly off the earth rather than stay on it, and meteors would not land on the planet.
When I was VERY young (like six), A friend of ours had one of those newfangled color TV’s. Now, my dad had actually explained to me, at a VERY high level, how TV’s worked. When he and his friend were messing around with the color TV, as a child, all I was noticing was them making the screen a full blue tint or full red tint and I remember (to this day) thinking, “Who would want a TV that gave the black and white picture a color tint?” It is because I knew that it was impossible to produce a picture that had multiple colors in it. I mean, that’s not how the electron beam worked. It didn’t come in colors.
But here we are...
The “push” theories don’t describe a force where the earth would be pushing us off the surface. Instead, they theorize that pressure is coming from all directions pushing us down to hold us against the earth. In those theories, the “attraction” we experience is a result of a graviational shadow... the earth blocks us from the pressure from one direction, so the pressure is no longer in equilibrium and we feel a pull in one direction.
The theories don’t work, but that is the idea behind them.