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Gravity does not exist

Question said:
LOL, scientists must admit they can't explain gravity,
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That isn't really true. "Gravity" is actually the warping of the 4-dimensional spacetime manifold due to the presense of matter. This warping causes the world-lines of various pieces of matter to intersect. From a 3-dimensional space perspective, it then appers that these pieces of matter are being drawn spacially together over time.

So, yes. Scientists can explain the mechanicanism by which gravity works. I've given you a thumbnail sketch of a complex concept above. If you are curious in learning more, I can recommend some sorces, but if you are not comfortable with high-level math, they will be difficult reads. (Heck, they are difficult reads even if you are comfortable with the math.)
 
Has anyone checked on this troll? If it is a sock puppet, can its fabric be unraveled now?
 
Okay, okay, we get the point. You're trying to pull what you feel skeptics do to woowoo theories. Big deal. There's several other things you forgot.

1. Authority says it exists. This is not the fallacy of "Appeal to Authority", because we are accessing physics' experiments. Physicists have experimented with gravity and have established rules surrounding this force. Now that the baseline theory is established (and many good scientific advances have come as a result, such as slingshotting satellites), it is up to you to come up with and prove a difference of opinion.

2. There is no experiment to be done. It is self-evident that there is a force that pulls things down, which has been termed gravity. The denial of the self-evident is an absurd POV, much like the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. ("It's just a flesh wound!") I wonder if there's a fallacy term for that line of thinking...
 
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Question said:
Electrical forces? LOL, this is not an electric chair.
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Yes.

Matter has electrons in it. I guess it has a repulsive element. I found that the relative strength of the electrical force is 1/137, but that of gravity is 10^-39.

I'm not too clear on the physics specifics, but I remember hearing this type of explanation once.
 
Things like things falling, people weighing less the further they get from Earth, the tides, that we use formulas with G in them to predict things so well, that we don't fly off of the Earth as it rotates, that our moon orbits the Earth, and the Earth orbits the Sun, spiral shapes of galaxies, and black holes is good evidence. :)
 
Question said:
LOL, scientists must admit they can't explain gravity
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Even if scientist couldn't explain how gravity works, the evidence that it does work is too strong to be ignored (not to say bleeding obvious). Can you provide evidence of a single instance when it hasn't worked?
 
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So you say. Can you post a picture that hasn't been tampered with?
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AWPrime doesn't need to post a picture; you can repeat the experiment for yourself. Let us know how it goes.

Nullius in verba.
 
Mojo said:
Even if scientist couldn't explain how gravity works, the evidence that it does work is too strong to be ignored (not to say bleeding obvious). Can you provide evidence of a single instance when it hasn't worked?
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Never saw a balloon, silly? :D
 
And now, dear fellows, I present you the strawtroll...

This is getting really boring.
 
Mojo said:
Even if scientist couldn't explain how gravity works, the evidence that it does work is too strong to be ignored (not to say bleeding obvious). Can you provide evidence of a single instance when it hasn't worked?
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The burden of proof is on the claimant. Can you provide evidence of a single instance when it has worked?
 
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Question said:
Electrical forces? LOL, this is not an electric chair.
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You have no clue right? It IS the electro-magnetic force that holds most things together, including your floor tiles. You might think it is glue, but that it not the case, glue as well is holding together by the electro-magnetic force.
 
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Anders said:
You have no clue right? It IS the electro-magnetic force that holds most things together, including your floor tiles. You might think it is glue, but that it not the case, glue as well is holding together by the electro-magnetic force.
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Yes, it's protons and neutrons that are held together by glue. Colored glue, as a matter of fact.

insofar as QCD refers to its intermediate bosons as gluons, that is...
 
Question said:
The burden of proof is on the claimant. Can you provide evidence of a single instance when it has worked?
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Every artificial satellite ever launched.
 
Gravity is actualy a bunch of invisible rubber bands tied from our spleens to the center of the earth. The reason we don't get pulled own to the center of the earth is that there is no room there. just a really big knot of a crap load of rubberbands.
 
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Zombified said:
Yes, it's protons and neutrons that are held together by glue. Colored glue, as a matter of fact.

insofar as QCD refers to its intermediate bosons as gluons, that is...
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Remember that ? can't even understand the concept of gravity, writing about bosons and gluons just makes him confused.
 
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Anders said:
You have no clue right? It IS the electro-magnetic force that holds most things together, including your floor tiles. You might think it is glue, but that it not the case, glue as well is holding together by the electro-magnetic force.
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The charge on my butt and current through it is zero (close enough, that is).

The charge on the chair and current through it is zero.

What does that imply to you?

It is you who lack understanding of the basics. Not I.
 
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Anders said:
Remember that ? can't even understand the concept of gravity, writing about bosons and gluons just makes him confused.
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I just couldn't help myself. :D
 
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