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Sorry, but fringe ideas about gravity are going to be the subject of ridicule wherever you go.

Man, you gotta think outside the box.

1,131 posted on 07/14/2004 6:07:27 PM PDT by PatrickHenry (#26,303, registered since the 20th Century, never suspended, over 185 threads posted.)

Speaking of thinking outside the box, can you or anyone else on this forum think of a more "out of the box" idea than general relativity? Has there ever been a more wrenching thought from out of the blue?

Granted, quantum theory is pretty weird, but it was developed over several decades by a host of physicists, and several independently developed mathematical formulations gave the same answers.

So how long did it take the stodgy, skeptical world of science to give serious consideration to general relativity? Five minutes? Ten? Anyone want to hazard a guess as to why relativity was accepted quickly, and fringe science is rejected?

1,135 posted on 07/14/2004 6:19:32 PM PDT by js1138 (In a minute there is time, for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. J Forbes Kerry)