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Gravity does not exist

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The "skeptic" community prides itself on believing only what there is proof or evidence for. But I have yet to see the proof that there is a force called gravity pulling everything to the center of the earth. As I sit at this computer, gravity ought to be pulling me deep into the bowels of the earth, and yet I am still sitting here. Why do scientists believe that gravity exists? Why do they think that a shoe hovering in midair is any less likely than a shoe hovering on the floor? Can you give me proof that objects must fall when dropped, even if started out motionless?
 
When I fart I don't fly off into space, therefore, something is pulling me to the ground, scientists call this gravity, but they could just as easily call it anti-fartivity. The name isn't important.
 
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As I sit at this computer, gravity ought to be pulling me deep into the bowels of the earth, and yet I am still sitting here.
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The electrical forces are stronger.
 
Actually, it's as much to do with Fermi-Dirac statistics of spin-1/2 particles as with electricity.
 
Zombified said:
Actually, it's as much to do with Fermi-Dirac statistics of spin-1/2 particles as with electricity.
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Whereas we semi-initiated high-school educated drooling morons prefer to call it in this context, force normal.
 
Zombified said:
It's just a high-falutin' way of saying "matter is solid".
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I thought there was no such thing as a solid, that it's just a really impressive illusion.
 
The Central Scrutinizer said:
The Earth sucks.


(That's an old one)
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And this sockpuppet sucks.

?, I suggest you post all this in the Humor forum. At least we can then treat it as a joke.

Hans
 
Iconoclast said:
I was going to reply to this thread but my computer floated away.
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LOL! Why would your computer float away, just because it was not being pulled to the center of the earth? You commit a false dilemma fallacy.
 
SquishyDave said:
When I fart I don't fly off into space, therefore, something is pulling me to the ground,
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A fart is not a very powerful force, and you know that. It would take a truly massive fart to put you into space. Your argument is ridiculous.

scientists call this gravity, but they could just as easily call it anti-fartivity. The name isn't important.
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Can no one give me proof of something they claim is so simple?
 
Zombified said:
Actually, it's as much to do with Fermi-Dirac statistics of spin-1/2 particles as with electricity.
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When you don't understand something, give it a name eh!
 
It would take no especially strong flatulence to propell somebody into space if there was no force opposing it. All forces are irresistable, as you may recall:

F=MA

So even the smallest bean-butt-crack would have the potential to send one flying, albeit rather slowly.
 
neutrino_cannon said:
It would take no especially strong flatulence to propell somebody into space if there was no force opposing it.
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Straw man fallacy. I only said there was no gravity. Do things usually keep moving forever, in your experience?

All forces are irresistable, as you may recall:

F=MA

So even the smallest bean-butt-crack would have the potential to send one flying, albeit rather slowly.
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Zombified said:
It's just a high-falutin' way of saying "matter is solid".
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If matter is solid, then there can't be a force pulling me down to the center of the earth. Thus gravity is falsified.
 
Iconoclast said:
I thought there was no such thing as a solid, that it's just a really impressive illusion.
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So it an illusion that I am not at the center of the earth, eh? LOL.
 
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