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To: Red Badger
Isaac Newton explained how gravity works, more or less (some corrections by Albert Einstein). But I don't think he explained why there is gravity to begin with.

OK, so every particle of matter attracts every other particle of matter. But why? Why doesn't matter just mind its own business and not bother any other bits of matter? Cosmic busybodies. Matter must be "Progressive."

And why does light keep traveling for billions of years? Don't the light beams ever get tired?

13 posted on 10/10/2014 1:34:25 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

Describing the effects of Gravity is not the same as knowing what it is.


17 posted on 10/10/2014 1:38:22 PM PDT by HandyDandy (Don't make-up stuff. It just wastes everybody's time.)
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To: Verginius Rufus

Gravity is just the label we put on something that we don’t know how it works but know that it does.

Mass depresses the fabric of space-time, creating a ‘gravity well’, or so they tell us. Every bit of mass depresses it to some extent.

If you had a universe where only two atoms of hydrogen existed, and they were a billion light years apart, they would eventually collide or settle into a stable orbit around a central point............


18 posted on 10/10/2014 1:39:43 PM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Verginius Rufus
"OK, so every particle of matter attracts every other particle of matter. But why? Why doesn't matter just mind its own business and not bother any other bits of matter? Cosmic busybodies. Matter must be "Progressive." And why does light keep traveling for billions of years? Don't the light beams ever get tired?"

All good questions which have occurred to me as well. In my opinion our current understanding of the actual mechanics of reality is about the same as a dog staring at a ceiling fan. He knows that there's something there but doesn't have a clue just what it is.

33 posted on 10/10/2014 2:15:38 PM PDT by Desron13
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To: Verginius Rufus

Here’s another one. Maybe I’m just to stupid but can a photon be stationary next to a specific object? Say a rock, person or tree.


35 posted on 10/10/2014 2:23:27 PM PDT by Desron13
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