Posted on 10/18/2004 12:27:05 PM PDT by roaddog727
Imagine the weight of a nagging suspicion that what held your world together, a constant and consistent presence you had come to understand and rely on, wasn't what it seemed. That's how scientists feel when they ponder gravity these days.
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The entire universe is exapnding. Gravity is simply the observed effect of the expansion as particles accelerate outward from each other. Hence, things seem to be drawn together, but in fact they are merely getting bigger.
To simplify: Put Michael Moore in a room with a suicide bomber. MM is getting fatter, and the suicide bomber sets off his vest. They seem to be drawn together at different rates, but they are actually simply expanding, each according to their specific physical natures.
Democrats don't repeal laws, They just make them endlessly more complex, find a way to tax it and redistribute the proceeds.
The Edwards approach, is that the wealthy have an unfair advantage under the law of gravity therefore they must automatically add 5 lbs for each 100,000$ of income. The poor who have been trampled unfairly by rich republicans get to deduct 5 lbs for each child under 27.
I almost forgot.
Women and children hardest hit, and something or other about the homeless, Suv's and a womans right to choose, and don't forget the environment.
Bush is to blame, yada,yada and one more yada.
String Ping :)
Probably not, but then, I'm an evil republican (of sorts) who doesn't care about fairness!
Do you know anything about gravitons? For some reason the concept is bouncing around my head. Guess I need to look into it a bit tonight.
Voyager passed both Pioneers a couple years ago.
It must be he election messing with my mind...
Dang, I was going to post some such Mrs. Edwards witticism, but you were right on it!
I am wondering if the expansion of the universe has an effect on the trajectories. There are inflatons and Higgs particles out there, here, too, as well as dark energy, and all this is still abductive. Perhaps they will modify gravity from a strict inverse square by adding a lower power weak component. Perhaps they will find yet another phase state or find post-inflation large-scale quantum effects.
Perhaps. But somehow the planets themselves, which are certainly responsive to gravity, always seem to orbit the sun in very predictable paths. Whatever is affecting the probes is very odd indeed. Unless there are anomalies I'm not aware of.
A universe mass of about 10 kilograms just before the Big Bang accounts fully for the mass of the universe as we observe it today, even though we can see only about 10-50 of the universe as we look out to our horizon radius of 13.5 billion lightyears.
bump for later read.
Gravity bothers me.
It's obviously caused by illegal aliens! (I blame Bush...)
1/6th of what she weighs here on terra firma
Time for a pan-galactic-gargle-blaster, I would say...
Look at the effect caused by light passing by a black hole or neutron star (gravity lense). This is in line with that.
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