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To: RoughDobermann
why is light affected by gravity?

Now we must move into some physics more modern than old Newton's mechanics. Go beyond Newtonian mechanics to Hamiltonian mechanics. It's kind of mystifying the first time you see it, and it's difficult to talk about casually without sounding like Harry Potter. Like in the Matrix where 'there is no spoon': there is no gravity.

66 posted on 06/20/2003 10:56:37 AM PDT by RightWhale (gazing at shadows)
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To: RightWhale
there is no gravity

Ugh!

67 posted on 06/20/2003 10:59:34 AM PDT by RoughDobermann
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To: RightWhale
"there is no gravity.

Then what caused the apple hit Newton's noodle?

72 posted on 06/20/2003 11:59:29 AM PDT by DannyTN (Note left on my door by a pack of neighborhood dogs.)
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To: RightWhale
" Like in the Matrix where 'there is no spoon': there is no gravity."

DOes that mean that w/o a spoon, Rosie would be weightless?

98 posted on 06/20/2003 8:11:05 PM PDT by spunkets
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To: RightWhale
"there is no gravity"

So does that mean a black hole...really is a hole?

120 posted on 06/22/2003 10:15:26 AM PDT by DannyTN (Note left on my door by a pack of neighborhood dogs.)
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