How Gravity Works

darkbeaver

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How Gravity Works - Maurice Cotterrell
 

AnnaG

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Why is the end of that cut-off so we can't read it? Yipes it changed from half of it being legible to a smaller version where none is legible.
 

Dexter Sinister

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Brilliant, except it doesn't explain how the single most common atom in the visible universe, hydrogen, manages to be stable without any neutrons.
 

Liberalman

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If one is standing on the north pole which way is north?

As the earth gets bigger does the gravity increase or decrease?

If one were to suspend a weight conected to a scale in a vacume chamber would the scale be constant or would there be fluctuations?

Is gravity constant over all points of the earth?

I really don't know the answers does anybody know?
 
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JLM

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If one is standing on the north pole which way is north?


I really don't know the answers does anybody know?

there isn't- the only direction is south

As the earth gets bigger does the gravity increase or decrease?
INcrease

If one were to suspend a weight conected to a scale in a vacume chamber would the scale be constant or would there be fluctuations?
Depends

Is gravity constant over all points of the earth?
No- you weigh less at Denver than you do at Los Angeles
 

Spade

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“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”
-Teilhard de Chardin
 

Cliffy

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“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”
-Teilhard de Chardin
Ah! The fifth element; very rare and very valuable. Makes you wonder why after two thousand years people still don't get what JC had to say on the matter.