I came across this and it's really got me thinking:
[link= http://www.bringyou.to/apologetics/p67.htm ]http://www.bringyou.to/apologetics/p67.htm[/link]
The thesis is that there is no "Law" of gravity. Because all we have is an unproven theory.
Example: there are two tides every 24 hours, because the oceans rise when the moon is above them and when the moon 12 hours later is on the opposite side of the world. Now, sure, if gravity is attraction, you'd expect the water level to rise in a tide when the moon is above. But if the moon is attracting by gravity, why does the water level rise on the opposite side of the world? [:-]It should depress, get lower than normal, attracted downwardto the moon that's out of sight.
Does science have an explanation? Or is this one of many phenomena in the world that I believe science can't explain and doesn't because it's so right in your face it isn't even 'seen'.
Where's Leo when you need him? ;)Would this have him stumped?
Also, since water-levels rise away from the moon on the opposite side of the world, is that not replusion ie. anti-gravity, and proof that just as there's gravity, equally there's anti-gravity? Isn't that important???
Any ideas?
Venetian
RE: Gravity "Only a Theory"
Interesting post Venetian, never thought about it before.
Anti-gravity is certainly important, especially to the military in reverse engineering spacecraft 😉
Just think of the fossil fuel we'd save if something like anti-gravity could be harnessed 😮
RE: Gravity "Only a Theory"
Hello David,
The existence of two high tides and two low tides on the opposite side of the Earth is quite simply explained.
The Moon exerts a 'pulling' force on the Earth, and at the same time, the planet tries to pull away from the Moon. Now, because the seas are liquid and are moving all the time, the Earth cannot hold on to them, so the Moon exerts its influence and 'pulls' the seas out towards it. This happens once every 12 hours. Now: the same thing happens on the opposite side of the world because the Earth continues to be pulled by the Moon, and away from the water on the opposite side. This causes high and low tides on all sides at different times during a 12 hour period.
Sincethe Earth exerts a gravitational pull on the Moon, and because they are both travelling around the Sun, this causes the world's oceans to rise and fall.
So there is no mystery about gravity. Incidentally, the article is inaccurate: Isaac Newton was not the first person to 'discover' gravity. Gravity was known about from ancient times. It was Newton who quantified it mathematically, and who realised that it was the same force that controlled the speed of an apple falling to the ground, as that controlling the Sun, planets, Moon and stars. Also, no scientist worth his salt would claim that the Moon rotates. It does not.
Like evolution, gravitational pull is a proven fact.
Hope that I have enlightened you, dear David!
Love,
Patsy.
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RE: Gravity "Only a Theory"
Patsy, hi,
Yes, the article is flawed in places I'd also seen. It's by the guy responsible for banning Bible readings in US schools if you follow the link to his name. And the site is Catholic I gather. So axes were there to be ground.
Anyway, I'd never thought of it before but I get it now. Re tides. The way I would put it is that the moon and Earth are both spinning around each other, though the Earth is much more central. So on the outside of that spin, away from the moon, there's centrfugal force to slightly lesson Earth's gravity. (A million times stronger and we'd fly off.)
Hey, that means we all weigh a bit less when the moon's away from us :D. Weight-Watchers have this big thing about a weekly weigh-in. They should time it for the time of the second tide!
Thanks for the explanation. It was one of those 'logic' puzzles that I just couldn't figure out.
But I still believe in anti-gravity. Us 'believers' will prove it in the end!
Venetian
RE: Gravity "Only a Theory"
Yes, that's it, David. It is as if the Moon and Earth are perpetually indulging in a game of 'tug of war',with the two constantly pulling on each other, and all the time, they are moving around the Sun.This pulling effect by all threekeeps everything stable, except the tides because water is moving all the time. This centrifugal force is called 'inertia' and if it wasn't there, we would indeed fly off into space.
I am also interested in anti-gravity, and perhaps superstring theory will provide the answer. If there is gravity, there must also be anti-gravity, but where it is, I do not know.
A Bible site? Why am I not surprised at the inaccuracies?
Love,
Patsy.
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