Gravity isn't real

[moonbogg]

Really, its not. Its apparent effects are real of course, but gravity isn't understood. Nothing is fully understood until the most basic levels of reality are understood. From there we can reconstruct the world back to what we observe. For now, gravity is bullshit.

 

[JulesMaximus]

I suppose God is the only thing holding us down then?

 

[doubledeluxe]

 

[HN]

I ofen looked up at the sky an' assed meself the question - what is the stars, what is the stars?

 

[Rhezuss]

I suppose God is the only thing holding us down then?

That and surely the freakingly delicious poutine I had for lunch...damn I feel heavy as a mountain.

 

[moonbogg]

I suppose God is the only thing holding us down then?

Yes. Well, that or a few heavy books.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Yes. Well, that or a few heavy books.

You mean, like, the Bible?

 

[KeithTalent]

Neither is happiness.

KT

 

[Printer Bandit]

prove that gravity doesn't exists

 

[moonbogg]

Stop bullying me.

 

[JulesMaximus]

You mean, like, the Bible?

Would the bible stop a bullet though? And if it did stop a bullet would be the hand of god? Or would any fat book with a bunch of pages?

 

[CraKaJaX]

this thread is going down.

 

[vi edit]

This thread is heavy.

But weighs nothing.

 

[moonbogg]

this thread is going down.

You don't know what you're talking about. This thread is going places.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

A discussion on a subject like this is difficult to have in English because we only have one way to talk about being. In German, I think it is, there are actually several different ways to say "to be" or "to exist" because there are actually many different ways in which things can be thought to exist.

Gravity is certainly real, but I wouldn't say it "exists," in that I don't think "gravitons" have physical reality. I don't like calling gravity a force, either, although I understand the practicality in doing so.

 

[Raizinman]

You need to take a basic physics class.

 

[HN]

it certainly is a force and you can see it exerted on chicks when they're in group pics

 

[moonbogg]

You need to take a basic physics class.

Why? So they can teach me about the effects of something we think is caused by gravity? There are effects happening, but they aren't caused by gravity. There is no force called gravity. There is only an idea called gravity.

 

[boomerang]

This thread is heavy.

But weighs nothing.

Exactly. But it does serve as a reminder of the huge positive change in direction my life took when I quit smoking dope.

 

[z1ggy]

And here is Dr. Moonbogg again, giving us all lessons in physics.

There is an effect, by which objects with mass, attract other objects with mass. It's relation on a large scale is well understood by observation and by mathematics. Call it whatever you want, but it is real.

 

[HN]

Exactly. But it does serve as a reminder of the huge positive change in direction my life took when I quit smoking dope.

is that part of the etymology of your name?

 

[GasX]

If gravity did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it...

 

[moonbogg]

is that part of the etymology of your name?

LOL

And here is Dr. Moonbogg again, giving us all lessons in physics.

There is an effect, by which objects with mass, attract other objects with mass. It's relation on a large scale is well understood by observation and by mathematics. Call it whatever you want, but it is real.

Zig, you can talk about fucking my wife in L&R, but keep your damn hands off my fysics posts.

 

[boomerang]

is that part of the etymology of your name?

My forum name is a nickname a coworker gave me. It was given to me one day when we were shooting the shit and I kept returning over and over to tell him just one more thing.

 

[Rhezuss]

is that part of the etymology of your name?

And you only need two 1s to have an entire planet freak out.