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To: ETL
individual atoms are not affected by gravity.

In theory. We actually don't know as we can't actually measure whether they are or not.

65 posted on 12/15/2018 12:30:34 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: UCANSEE2
Re: individual atoms are not affected by gravity.

In theory. We actually don't know as we can't actually measure whether they are or not.

Well, since they have mass they are a source of gravity. However, compared to the other forces (normally) operating at that small scale, gravititational effects are practically zero. Now if we are talking about the very tiny region inside a black hole, the "singularity", then things are likely very much different. There you have an immense gravitational field at the atomic/quantum scale. Weird things surely must be going on there.

66 posted on 12/15/2018 12:40:30 PM PST by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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