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Geek U.S.A.
Jan 16, 2013


Have you ever looked at a picture of gravity? Have you ever felt gravity? Do you know what gravity tastes like? I sure as hell haven't and don't.


Don't believe their lies

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Another Person
Oct 20, 2010

"Maybe one day you make a good general."


i loving love The Bugle!

Also, it tastes like Neapolitan. Everyone knows that.

Widdiful
Oct 10, 2012

Widdiful. Noun, adjective.
One who deserves to be hanged.

My gravity tastes like tears and disappointment.

Another Person
Oct 20, 2010

"Maybe one day you make a good general."


Widdiful posted:

My gravity tastes like tears and disappointment.

poo poo. You see your GP about that or something? It can gently caress a guy or gal up in the olng run. I would post you some of mine but mine just tastes too good

Widdiful
Oct 10, 2012

Widdiful. Noun, adjective.
One who deserves to be hanged.

Another Person posted:

poo poo. You see your GP about that or something? It can gently caress a guy or gal up in the olng run. I would post you some of mine but mine just tastes too good

There aren't any GPs on the moon, life is hard here.

Box of Trial
Sep 4, 2003

TONKA HYAH

I hear those NASA eggheads talking about gravity lenses, but if they exist then why can't I get them at lenscrafters?

Another Person
Oct 20, 2010

"Maybe one day you make a good general."


Widdiful posted:

There aren't any GPs on the moon, life is hard here.

You just gotta have something up your sleeve though, surely? It wouldn't be cool otherwise.

Geek U.S.A.
Jan 16, 2013


Widdiful posted:

There aren't any GPs on the moon, life is hard here.


oh poo poo, it's a moon man

GET HIM

Babylon Astronaut
Apr 19, 2012


Do you not understand the gravity of this situation?

Jumpingmanjim
Dec 26, 2008


If gravity exists why are there no gravity guns?

Cyril Sneer
Aug 8, 2004

Life would be simple in the forest except for Cyril Sneer. And his life would be simple except for The Raccoons.

gravity doesn't pull, it sucks.

eSports Chaebol
Feb 22, 2005

Support the International Campaign to Ban Spider Mines

Gravity is a less convincing theory than evolution, and apparently evolution is just one possibility, so gravity is probably not real (though I can't discount the possibility that it might actually exist).

Splender
Nov 11, 2012

Revel in the gloriously handsome sight of my insane pectorals


We were all born with magnets in our feet, and the government put a magnet in the earth; thus we all stick to the earth. We all need rebel!

CUT OFF YOUR FEET! LETS DO IT GUYS!

Widdiful
Oct 10, 2012

Widdiful. Noun, adjective.
One who deserves to be hanged.

Splender posted:

We were all born with magnets in our feet, and the government put a magnet in the earth; thus we all stick to the earth. We all need rebel!

CUT OFF YOUR FEET! LETS DO IT GUYS!

My feet are floating away and I'm still here. What do I do next?

HighClassSwankyTime
Jan 16, 2004


newton knows poo poo

Splender
Nov 11, 2012

Revel in the gloriously handsome sight of my insane pectorals


Widdiful posted:

My feet are floating away and I'm still here. What do I do next?

poo poo! It must be somewhere else! That's why amputees can't find their feet, they float away. Cut of your heads!

CUT OFF YOUR HEAD! LETS DO IT GUYS!

Kylra
Dec 1, 2006
Kylra Was Not And Never Has Been Right

Fiction. The only thing keeping us grounded in reality is the Internet.

Tea Party Crasher
Sep 3, 2012

Ooga booga, where's all the honey at?


Splender posted:

poo poo! It must be somewhere else! That's why amputees can't find their feet, they float away. Cut of your heads!

CUT OFF YOUR HEAD! LETS DO IT GUYS!

Call me crazy, but I'd rather live a life on the ground with a body, instead of just being a floating head.

Wait, if we break free, do we gain mind-powers? This is important.

Geek U.S.A.
Jan 16, 2013


if gravity is real then how come this happened

Stex T
Mar 7, 2005

Shut the fuck up and get out. Have fun being a slave of the rich and powerful.


If there's a gravity, then how come I'm so fly?

Emacs Headroom
Aug 2, 2003



Stex T posted:

If there's a gravity, then how come I'm so fly?

Yeah, riddle me that, scientists.

ThatPazuzu
Sep 8, 2011



THE TIGER IN SPACE


Gravity is true but love is a lie.

Randomly
Jan 20, 2013


You know, I really havent felt pulled by something below me as much as I've felt like something is pushing down from above me.

clammy
Nov 25, 2004


Space is like a sponge, and matter compresses the sponge outward through displacement. All the molecules and atoms and particles of your body are constantly vibrating and oscillating. The honeycomb cells of spacetime are smooshed and thus packed more densely toward a large object because it is displacing moar space. So due to uncertainty of position your particles are more likely to be situated closer to an object with large mass because there are more potential "places to be" packed into a smaller area in the direction of the large mass as opposed to away from the mass. On the macroscopic scale this translates to the perception of a "force" "pulling" you closer.

clammy fucked around with this message at Feb 2, 2013 around 18:23

EagerSleeper
Feb 3, 2010

I don't suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it.


clammy posted:

Space is like a sponge, and matter compresses the sponge outward through displacement. All the molecules and atoms and particles of your body are constantly vibrating and oscillating. The honeycomb cells of spacetime are smooshed and thus packed more densely toward a large object because it is displacing moar space. So due to uncertainty of position your particles are more likely to be situated closer to an object with large mass because there are more potential "places to be" packed into a smaller area in the direction of the large mass as opposed to away from the mass. On the macroscopic scale this translates to the perception of a "force" "pulling" you closer.

Does that mean that if I eat 50 burritos a day to gain more mass, than I will become more likely to attract a girl?

clammy
Nov 25, 2004


Um frankly the human body is not capable of gaining enough mass to displace the Earth's center of mass. Even if you could eat and somehow process the entire Earth's crust you would not significantly alter the location of the center of mass of the Earth, and your fat cells could not support your body and you would crush flat against the Earth, spreading your mass out. Girl particles would still be probabilistically locating toward the Earth's center of mass, not you. So no.

Geek U.S.A.
Jan 16, 2013


clammy posted:

Space is like a sponge, and matter compresses the sponge outward through displacement. All the molecules and atoms and particles of your body are constantly vibrating and oscillating. The honeycomb cells of spacetime are smooshed and thus packed more densely toward a large object because it is displacing moar space. So due to uncertainty of position your particles are more likely to be situated closer to an object with large mass because there are more potential "places to be" packed into a smaller area in the direction of the large mass as opposed to away from the mass. On the macroscopic scale this translates to the perception of a "force" "pulling" you closer.

This is clearly a lie. If the force of a giant object would really be able to pull on us then we'd all be toasting in the sun.

clammy
Nov 25, 2004


We are, actually, falling into the sun--along an extremely long arc due to the Earth's velocity.

WHAT A GOOD DOG
Dec 20, 2012

THAT'S A GOOD DOG


clammy posted:

We are, actually, falling into the sun--along an extremely long arc due to the Earth's velocity.

Well with how the universe is actually situated it is more that the sun is falling into us. They want you to think earth isn't the center.

clammy
Nov 25, 2004


Ha ha, very funny. Anyways all forms of energy evolved from what we call "gravity" which is really just the outward compression of spacetime along a gradient curve whose origin is each object's center of mass.

clammy
Nov 25, 2004


So I went ahead and drew some visual aids to help you understand gravity.

The first shows a conceptualization of spacetime compression along two-dimensional squarespace. The white diamond in the middle represents a dense squaremass:



But squarespace is just some made up bullshit I just came up with. Just keeping you on your toes, lol!

Soooooo here's a conceptualization of a 2D-cross-section of spacetime passing through the center of a planet:



Note how the cells are greater in number for a given area as the distance to the edge of the mass decreases.

Now here's a pic that explains why particles tend to "move" toward a large mass. Basically, for any volume (or in this case, area since it's a 2D cross-section) of space, there's an equal probability that a particle will be present in any of the cells making up that space. Since there are more cells for a given meta-area in the direction of the larger mass, this explains why matter tends to congregate together, or "exhibit gravitation."

Stex T
Mar 7, 2005

Shut the fuck up and get out. Have fun being a slave of the rich and powerful.


clammy posted:

So I went ahead and drew some visual aids to help you understand gravity.

The first shows a conceptualization of spacetime compression along two-dimensional squarespace. The white diamond in the middle represents a dense squaremass:



But squarespace is just some made up bullshit I just came up with. Just keeping you on your toes, lol!

Soooooo here's a conceptualization of a 2D-cross-section of spacetime passing through the center of a planet:



Note how the cells are greater in number for a given area as the distance to the edge of the mass decreases.

Now here's a pic that explains why particles tend to "move" toward a large mass. Basically, for any volume (or in this case, area since it's a 2D cross-section) of space, there's an equal probability that a particle will be present in any of the cells making up that space. Since there are more cells for a given meta-area in the direction of the larger mass, this explains why matter tends to congregate together, or "exhibit gravitation."



too long, didn't conceptualize

FrozenGoldfishGod
Oct 29, 2009

JUST LOOK AT THIS SHIT POST!


We can all sit here and conceptualize and navel-gaze forever, but by gum I'm going to go out there and test this empirically!

I'll be back later to post a trip report when I've finished testing this "theory" of "Gravity".

Hex Vision
Jun 6, 2010

Game over, boys.

If things truly always moved from up to down, there should be some transitionary forms between them, right? So why hasn't anyone ever discovered things just floating in the middle? Shouldn't there be lots of things that are both up AND down at the same time?

I say that the apple was simply created on top of Newton's head. Otherwise it would have had to be one long rear end apple to reach both his head and the tree it allegedly "dropped" from!

Nullity
Feb 9, 2012

Desperately seeking cure for Marble Madness.


You so called 'men of science' are too blinded by your faith in Isaac-Newtonism that you can't see the true light of the one true Space God. Intelligent Suction is the only way to explain the flight of birds as well as how we're not all just sucked in to the sun! You can drop apples and run calculations all you want but when the moon men return to reclaim the Earth I know who I'm putting my faith in.

Hex Vision
Jun 6, 2010

Game over, boys.

Nullity posted:

Intelligent Suction

Well, it does make a lot more sense than things just happening to fall downwards by BLIND CHANCE. I mean, how likely is that? About as likely as a jumbo jet assembling itself and flying to the right destination by blind chance!

Blind Chance!!

Beanbox
Dec 13, 2011

LTA Represent !!

Gravity is stronger on mondays than any other days of the week.

Dark Grapefruit
Jun 3, 2006

All cans are welcome and equal in your city, regardless of can content, and whether empty or full.


Gravity isn't real, Einstein proved it's really just acceleration. Your standing on the earth which is accelerating upwards through space but it feels like the earth is staying still and you're being pulled downward. RELATIVITY, LOOK IT UP.

CottonWolf
Jul 20, 2012


Dark Grapefruit posted:

Gravity isn't real, Einstein proved it's really just acceleration. Your standing on the earth which is accelerating upwards through space but it feels like the earth is staying still and you're being pulled downward. RELATIVITY, LOOK IT UP.

Wait wait wait. There's disagreement AMONG SCIENTISTS about gravity? This just proves the gravity-is-a-conspiracy theory. They're spreading misinformation, they don't even know what's going on themselves!

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Ahundredbux
Oct 25, 2007

The right to bear arms

Gravity is the force that makes us fall down when we try to go up.
In space there is no up and down.
Gravity disproved.

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