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15 minutes ago, snatchslayer said:

How is this thread real?  Did we go to the moon too? Jesus 

You must have missed the "Official JTSSRX Fake moon landing " thread. 

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Why does gravity pull us down and not up?

 
 
Mario Borunda, Associate Professor of Physics, Oklahoma State University
Mon, July 26, 2021, 6:57 AM·3 min read
 
 
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Gravity is the reason things with mass or energy are attracted to each other. It is why apples fall toward the ground and planets orbit stars.

Magnets attract some types of metals, but they can also push other magnets away. So how come you feel only the pull of gravity?

In 1915, Albert Einstein figured out the answer when he published his theory of general relativity. The reason gravity pulls you toward the ground is that all objects with mass, like our Earth, actually bend and curve the fabric of the universe, called spacetime. That curvature is what you feel as gravity.

What is spacetime?

Before getting into the complicated world of gravity, you need to understand spacetime.

Spacetime is exactly what it sounds like: the three dimensions of space – length, width and height – combined with the fourth dimension – time. Using some very brilliant math, Einstein was the first person to realize that the laws of physics work in a universe where space and time are merged together.

What this means is that space and time are connected – if you move really fast through space, time slows down for you compared to someone who is moving slowly. This is why astronauts – who are moving very fast in space – age a tiny bit more slowly than people on Earth.

Two earths on a grid, one in a depression and one on top of a hill.
 
Two earths on a grid, one in a depression and one on top of a hill.

Matter makes gravity wells, not gravity hills

Remember, gravity is the idea that objects in the universe are attracted to each other because spacetime is bent and curved. When Einstein came up with general relativity, he showed that all stuff in the universe can curve spacetime – in physics terms that stuff is mass and energy.

A family on a trampoline with the trampoline stretching down toward the ground.
 
A family on a trampoline with the trampoline stretching down toward the ground.

Since your brain usually thinks about the world in three dimensions, it is really hard to think about the four dimensions of spacetime as a single idea. So to make it easier to visualize, imagine the surface of a trampoline. If there is nothing on it, it is flat. But if you stand on the trampoline, it stretches around your feet and creates a valley with you at the center. If there is a ball on the trampoline, it would roll toward your feet.

This is a two-dimensional example of how spacetime works. Your mass stretched the trampoline, creating what is called a gravity well that the ball rolls into. This is very similar to how the gravity of a heavy object – like the Earth – pulls things like you and me toward it.

To make things even weirder, since space and time are connected, time is also stretched by heavy objects!

 

The heavier you are, the steeper the sides of the trampoline well. That is why really massive things in the universe – like the Sun or black holes – have stronger gravity than Earth.

So why does gravity pull you down and not push you away?

Imagine someone went under the trampoline and pushed up. The ball would roll away! This would be a gravity hill, not a gravity well. As far as scientists know, matter – or stuff – always makes gravity wells and not gravity hills. Scientists can imagine things made of exotic matter or energy that would cause gravity to push you off into space, but so far, no one has found anything that could cause gravity to push you away from Earth.

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4 hours ago, jtssrx said:

Oh My Fucking God! You braindead fucking moron!!!

The 3rd paragraph....

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OK, well, they have teeny tiny tides, a difference of a few centimeters on a twice-daily cycle. But the change is so inconsequential that scientists consider the freshwater bodies non-tidal.

 

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The Airbus A380 can take 853 people up and travel 8,000 nmi but we don't know where the end of the flat earth is. :lmao:

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It's all one giant conspiracy concocted to insure people everywhere believe that the earth is a sphere because if they actually learned that it was flat then.....  then.... then... then..... well, what then? 

Perhaps they are still working on scaling up for all those cruises to view the giant ice wall....  :lol2:

 

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Coriolis affect debunks the idea that the atmosphere is tied to the globe. If you believe in the Coriolis affect than the at atmosphere cannot also be tied to the globe. 
 

 

 

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17 hours ago, jtssrx said:

Coriolis affect debunks the idea that the atmosphere is tied to the globe. If you believe in the Coriolis affect than the at atmosphere cannot also be tied to the globe. 
 

 

 

You just admitted it's a globe.  :lol:

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Science says the earths atmosphere isn't tied to the earth. There are reference frames the earth rotating and the atmosphere rotating above the earth. The laws of thermal dynamics dictates that gases can't be tethered to a spinning ball earth. They also dictate that they can't exist next to a vaccume.

 

 

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The best part is flat earthers don't even agree as to what the earth looks like.   :lol2:

Its in a dome

no

There is a ice wall at the end

no

Its an infinite flat plane

no

Its a flat disk with an edge

 

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Just now, Highmark said:

The best part is flat earthers don't even agree as to what the earth looks like.   :lol2:

Its in a dome

no

There is a ice wall at the end

no

Its an infinite flat plane

no

Its a flat disk with an edge

 

No flat earther thinks there’s an edge

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3 hours ago, jtssrx said:

No flat earther thinks there’s an edge

And so the plane just goes on infinitely?  :lol:   I've yet to see a model of this.   I don't buy a lot of flat earthers don't think there's and edge or wall at the end.   How do some who believe we are in a dome not think there's an edge or wall? 

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