You must remember that the earth's rotation is forcing us down to the ground. The only actual proof that gravity exists is that things crash to earth from the sky and the experiment proving Newton's law that was done on the moon.
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 4:33 AM, Martin Baxter <martinbaxt...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > To this "genius", Brent, I ask this. > > Why, in the entirety of human history, hasn't there been a "bad hair day", > when gravity kicks out and sends thousands soaring off into space? > > Maybe, MAYBE, in a hundred years or so, something may walk in the door to > support this hare-brained chicanery. I haven't been involved in the physics > community for close to fifteen years, and it's stuff like this that makes me > happy that I estranged myself. > > > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 6:41 PM, brent wodehouse < > brent_wodeho...@thefence.us> wrote: > >> >> >> Yes. The 'bad hair day' theory of gravity. >> >> 'It goes something like this: your hair frizzles in the heat and humidity, >> because there are more ways for your hair to be curled than to be >> straight, and nature likes options. So it takes a force to pull hair >> straight and eliminate nature’s options. Forget curved space or the spooky >> attraction at a distance described by Isaac Newton’s equations well enough >> to let us navigate the rings of Saturn, the force we call gravity is >> simply a byproduct of nature’s propensity to maximize disorder.' >> >> From: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/science/13gravity.html?src=mv >> >> Brent >> >> >> martinbaxt...@gmail.com <martinbaxter7%40gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> >From: Martin Baxter >> ><martin.baxter....@gmail.com<martin.baxter.013%40gmail.com> >> > >> >Date: Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 3:54 PM >> >Subject: Eccentric but brilliant physicist claims gravity doesn't exist >> >To: martinbaxt...@gmail.com <martinbaxter7%40gmail.com> >> > >> > >> >Even as I post this, I feel compelled to say that this is a post from a >> >new Siffy-powered site and that, IMO, that association renders this and >> >all other things reported that as null and void, being too far divorced >> >from reality... >> > >> >> >========================================================================================================== >> > >> >Eccentric but brilliant physicist claims gravity doesn't exist >> >Eccentric but brilliant physicist claims gravity doesn't exist >> >Stephen Hawking experiences weightlessness in a jet >> >7Share >> > >> >I know that something is keeping me from floating off as I type away at >> >this keyboard, but thanks to Erik Verlinde, a string theorist and >> >professor of physics at the University of Amsterdam, I no longer know >> >what. But I'm not the only one feeling a little, well, adrift right now. >> > >> >According to an article in the NY Times, "Some of the best physicists in >> >the world say they don't understand Dr. Verlinde's paper." Which makes us >> >feel a little better that we don't either. >> > >> >That paper, "On the Origin of Gravity and the Laws of Newton," claims >> >that gravity is an illusion. >> > >> > >> >More at: http://blastr.com/2010/07/eccentric-but-brilliant-p.php >> > >> > >> >-- >> >"Between getsumei no michi and the Zero...no better place to live." >> > >> >(About little moments of happiness) "If this isn't nice, I don't know >> >what is." -- Kurt Vonnegut, "A Man Without A Country" >> > >> >> > > > -- > "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell > wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik > > > -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
