Date: 23/10/2015 17:33:01
From: Jing Joh
ID: 792333
Subject: A visual explanation of gravity

How does gravity make things fall

Reply Quote

Date: 23/10/2015 17:36:16
From: roughbarked
ID: 792334
Subject: re: A visual explanation of gravity

Jing Joh said:


How does gravity make things fall

If the same picture is taken in the same place at the same time at same intervals, would you still ask the same question?

Reply Quote

Date: 23/10/2015 17:41:29
From: JudgeMental
ID: 792335
Subject: re: A visual explanation of gravity

a much better explanation than the rubber sheet. i have seen this same done but without the spacetime stretcher just the graphing.

Reply Quote

Date: 23/10/2015 18:02:21
From: The Rev Dodgson
ID: 792341
Subject: re: A visual explanation of gravity

I think he did a good job explaining the model, but I don’t think he did what he said he was going to do.

He didn’t tell us how mass warps space-time.

Reply Quote

Date: 23/10/2015 18:03:03
From: roughbarked
ID: 792343
Subject: re: A visual explanation of gravity

The Rev Dodgson said:


I think he did a good job explaining the model, but I don’t think he did what he said he was going to do.

He didn’t tell us how mass warps space-time.

Other than that we had to ask Einstein.

Reply Quote

Date: 23/10/2015 18:38:39
From: wookiemeister
ID: 792354
Subject: re: A visual explanation of gravity

if the universe was once in a tiny ball before the Big Bang then time inside the ball must have virtually ground to a halt due to increased gravity?

Reply Quote

Date: 23/10/2015 18:40:19
From: JudgeMental
ID: 792355
Subject: re: A visual explanation of gravity

which other FoR are you comparing that scenario with?

Reply Quote

Date: 23/10/2015 18:40:24
From: wookiemeister
ID: 792356
Subject: re: A visual explanation of gravity

what makes me wonder is this

did the Big Bang happen because the large masses experienced some rift in time over a short distance ?

Reply Quote

Date: 23/10/2015 18:42:54
From: wookiemeister
ID: 792357
Subject: re: A visual explanation of gravity

it’s probably how the aliens tend to the universe

black holes can be knocked out by “ time “ bombs delivered to the core

Reply Quote

Date: 23/10/2015 18:48:50
From: wookiemeister
ID: 792359
Subject: re: A visual explanation of gravity

watching down to the atom for the signs and shape of uncontrolled disorder

tending for the eons since the master controller left him to tend the universe

all wrongs are made right

the good pass to another existence

the bad are condemned and thrown into the oblivion of the abyss

Reply Quote

Date: 23/10/2015 18:51:40
From: wookiemeister
ID: 792360
Subject: re: A visual explanation of gravity

meanwhile the hands of the clock turn and move towards the ultimate certainty that all things must pass

Reply Quote

Date: 23/10/2015 18:54:36
From: Bubblecar
ID: 792361
Subject: re: A visual explanation of gravity

wookiemeister said:


meanwhile the hands of the clock turn and move towards the ultimate certainty that all things must pass

Good times & bad times & all times get over.

Reply Quote

Date: 23/10/2015 19:37:50
From: Jing Joh
ID: 792370
Subject: re: A visual explanation of gravity

Nothing ends, it just changes form.

Reply Quote

Date: 23/10/2015 20:55:02
From: bob(from black rock)
ID: 792381
Subject: re: A visual explanation of gravity

There’s no such thing as gravity, The Earth sucks.

Reply Quote

Date: 23/10/2015 21:04:51
From: roughbarked
ID: 792385
Subject: re: A visual explanation of gravity

bob(from black rock) said:


There’s no such thing as gravity, The Earth sucks.

Fuck that. I fight it all the way.

Reply Quote

Date: 23/10/2015 21:05:21
From: roughbarked
ID: 792386
Subject: re: A visual explanation of gravity

Jing Joh said:


Nothing ends, it just changes form.

Form has ends.

Reply Quote

Date: 23/10/2015 21:06:34
From: bob(from black rock)
ID: 792388
Subject: re: A visual explanation of gravity

roughbarked said:


bob(from black rock) said:

There’s no such thing as gravity, The Earth sucks.

Fuck that. I fight it all the way.

Well obviously you are still winning well done Lad.

Reply Quote

Date: 23/10/2015 21:09:21
From: roughbarked
ID: 792391
Subject: re: A visual explanation of gravity

bob(from black rock) said:


roughbarked said:

bob(from black rock) said:

There’s no such thing as gravity, The Earth sucks.

Fuck that. I fight it all the way.

Well obviously you are still winning well done Lad.

spot on, dad.

Reply Quote

Date: 24/10/2015 17:30:02
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 792679
Subject: re: A visual explanation of gravity

JudgeMental said:


a much better explanation than the rubber sheet. i have seen this same done but without the spacetime stretcher just the graphing.

An excellent explanation.

You can find an essentially identical explanation and demonstration in Chapter 1 of Misner, Thorne and Wheeler “Gravitation” from 1973.
but …
You don’t want to even think about looking at Misner, Thorne and Wheeler unless you have done at least several years of University maths.
and …
This is the first time I’ve seen it dumbed down for the general public. Well done.

Reply Quote

Date: 24/10/2015 21:58:42
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 792763
Subject: re: A visual explanation of gravity

> did the Big Bang happen because the large masses experienced some rift in time over a short distance ?

Here’s a thought – mass and time didn’t exist before the big bang but temperature did. Perhaps.
Because the BB time and mass was zero but the BB temperature was infinite, you can easily get nothing from nothing, but it’s more difficult to get infinity from nothing.

> it’s probably how the aliens tend to the universe. black holes can be knocked out by “ time “ bombs delivered to the core

Um, no.

> meanwhile the hands of the clock turn and move towards the ultimate certainty that all things must pass

Is that certain? I agree it seems likely, but there’s almost as much free energy available in a heat-death universe as in the current universe. Planets are forever (unless protons decay, which is becoming less likely as we find out more from the LHC), and even one planet contains a fair bit of useful stuff.

Reply Quote