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Gravity is the force by which a planet or other body draws objects toward its center.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@TBIman Why are you so desperate to deny it exists, in the teeth of its patently obvious existence?
Its "cause" is still a puzzle, yes, a matter for the quantum physicists to try to untangle; but its obvious existence and effects are everyday experiences!
If you drop something it accelerates downwards at 9.8 metres/second^2 until it meets the floor. (It is actually being drawn towards the centre of mass of the Earth, and that rate is the average around the world, varying very, very slightly by geological effects.) Or in your world, does it just float in the air?
What the heck is keeping you standing on the floor instead of floating around the room, if not gravity?. What gives you your weight, if not gravity (Weight is gravitational acceleration X mass). Were you never taught these at school, in a further-education science course as an adult, or a popular-science programme on a genuine TV channel?
What do you hypothesise in its place, to explain weight, falling, bouyancy, convection and pressure in fluids including the oceans and atmosphere, orbits, pendulums, the design of machines like cranes, etc?
I know there are quite a lot of people about who for reason of their own fear anything scientific, logical or objective; do not understand scientific method (not methods; method); and are frightened to learn.
You can't though just dismiss the basic science behind basic, everyday experience; for no credible reason nor alternative, testable hypothesis.
While using the Internet to do so risks you being called a hypocrite, or at best just being laughed at.
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BTW metre not meter, is the proper spelling of this French word; similarly litre not litre. The French invented the metric system though it is the S.I. form that is now internationally almost universal, especially in science and engineering. A metre is a measure, a meter measures!
Its "cause" is still a puzzle, yes, a matter for the quantum physicists to try to untangle; but its obvious existence and effects are everyday experiences!
If you drop something it accelerates downwards at 9.8 metres/second^2 until it meets the floor. (It is actually being drawn towards the centre of mass of the Earth, and that rate is the average around the world, varying very, very slightly by geological effects.) Or in your world, does it just float in the air?
What the heck is keeping you standing on the floor instead of floating around the room, if not gravity?. What gives you your weight, if not gravity (Weight is gravitational acceleration X mass). Were you never taught these at school, in a further-education science course as an adult, or a popular-science programme on a genuine TV channel?
What do you hypothesise in its place, to explain weight, falling, bouyancy, convection and pressure in fluids including the oceans and atmosphere, orbits, pendulums, the design of machines like cranes, etc?
I know there are quite a lot of people about who for reason of their own fear anything scientific, logical or objective; do not understand scientific method (not methods; method); and are frightened to learn.
You can't though just dismiss the basic science behind basic, everyday experience; for no credible reason nor alternative, testable hypothesis.
While using the Internet to do so risks you being called a hypocrite, or at best just being laughed at.
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BTW metre not meter, is the proper spelling of this French word; similarly litre not litre. The French invented the metric system though it is the S.I. form that is now internationally almost universal, especially in science and engineering. A metre is a measure, a meter measures!
@TBIman The “proof” of gravity is the demonstration that the phenomenon happens. A casual demonstration would be to hold an ordinary object out in the air at arms length and let go. Watch it fall. The object and the Earth just accelerated towards each other when there was no other significant force acting.