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To: Ahban

General relativity is a theory of gravity.


90 posted on 02/17/2005 7:27:42 PM PST by Liberal Classic (No better friend, no worse enemy. Semper Fi.)
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To: Liberal Classic

General Relativity is a Theory that INCLUDES gravity. It attempts to explain gravity in a larger context. The smaller issue of how gravity works is a Law.

GR has been well-confirmed for several decades now and is generally believed to be true- but that is not long enough to promote it to a law. For example a geocentric model of the universe was confirmed by every prediction and observation for 1400 years- but it was wrong. It turned out another model, the heliocentric model, also explained the data.


121 posted on 02/17/2005 8:41:26 PM PST by Ahban
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