Gravity is an illusion, and M-Theory is truth.
Pull the other 11 ones.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Repeal the Law of Gravity!
A Scientist Takes On Obummer`s Verbal Graffiti
So says Erik Verlinde, 48, a respected string-’em-along theorist and professor of physics at the University of Amsterdam, whose contention that Obummer`s Verbal Graffiti is indeed an illusion.
He can believe gravity is an illusion all he wants.
In fact, he can go to the top of any high-rise skyscraper in any city on Earth, step off the roof, and believe all the way down that gravity is an illusion.
Right up until the point he impacts the sidewalk and explodes like a watermelon.
Another interesting take, Why Gravity is Really Pushy:
http://books.google.com/books?id=8pR50SFD4YAC&pg=PA134&lpg=PA134&dq=why+%22gravity+is+really+pushy%22&source=bl&ots=vNgGsSwEvi&sig=L9HX2nqHHW3f5iKabzGPsSo32BU&hl=en&ei=pOs8TJ2EA4ycsQOR_p3aCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=why%20%22gravity%20is%20really%20pushy%22&f=false
#1: String Theory is entirely bunkem...it’s an academic exercise to reconcile Relativity with Quantum Mechanics.
Can’t happen. R and QM are mutually exclusive theories. They could both be wrong, or just one of them could be right, never both. Thus, String Theory is a doomed concept because ST wants to make R and QM both correct. Can’t happen.
#2: dark energy is not real. It’s an academic fudge factor to “explain” why the universe is expanding at faster and faster rates each year...something that modern Physics says is impossible without some unknown energy source.
Except, no such energy source exists.
#3: Gravity itself and Gravity Waves can both be measured. Pretending that they don’t exist or are due to some other Force is silly.
Interesting, in that many people on the evolution side of the fence bristle when people call it only a theory, replying derisively that “gravity is only a theory too.”
I guess they’re right! :)
Hm.
(just an idea...to long to explain but for year for fun I like to just think and visualize thing at this fundamental level..see it in you head ...just think "sideways" and wrap you head around things like this... "mental stretching" it's very relaxing)
This was some pretty ‘heavy’ material.
I fought the law, and the.. law won....
gravity ..... mass.... density.
That’s all the clues I am giving.
Like Adam on “Mythbusters” says, respect gravity because (using a deep voice) “it’s the law”.
Gravity. Remove it, and the rest is gravy.
Perhaps a better way to put it is to say that gravity is “virtual”, a side effect of space and time and mass.
To start with, it can be said that space and time are the same thing. So much so that it can be called space-time. This is a well accepted theory in physics, and the two are combined into the “space-time continuum”, for the purposes of modeling.
But within the space-time continuum, there is the other pair, of mass and gravity. And mass-gravity is *interactive* with space-time. With enough mass-gravity, space-time actually distorts, is bent. Think about the “gravity well” created by a black hole in the “grid” space model.
But this comes with the usual problem: gravitons, the hypothetical gravity quantum particle, have not been found.
So what they are proposing is: what if gravity isn’t really “needed” in the equation? That is, what if mass, distorting space-time, may be all that is needed to create the illusion of gravity.
Think of the “grid” model again. Most of the lines are straight, except around massive objects. If you were on one such line, as your path, as it curved, your route would curve with it. Importantly, the massive object wouldn’t have to affect you directly, as long as it curved the space you were traveling, your path would curve as well.
Yet by all appearances, it would appear that the massive object was acting on you. Virtual gravity.
Looking at gravity from this angle, they say, could shed light on some of the vexing cosmic issues of the day, like the dark energy,
Please don’t antagonize the NAACP complaint department any further, they have their hands full of other imaginary issues
On a slow news day and a blank spot in the paper to fill...what better than something about gravity! Makes the mind brace right up, it does.
I think the problem is that you’ve got to be a crack head in order to make it in academia these days.
Gravity is an illusion, and M-Theory is truth.
Pull the other 11 ones.