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Old 03-07-2008, 08:27 AM
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Gravity does not Suck

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Thanks for the link Bojan.
I can not say it does much for me in the context that all their talk about gravity ..even "quantum" gravity... is in my view merely an observation of the Universe expressed as geometry... I still see nothing "tangible" to explain the machinery as to how it works.. all seem preoccupied with the math ..which is reasonable to a degree but the math applied seems little better than holding a tape measure up to the subject of gravity...and having drawn some measurements and tools to aid the recording of relationships the explanation of gravity is avoided... and so does all this new work take us to a place where we can,as better informed humans, say gravity is indeed a force that can be explained other than by Newton's determination that gravity is due to the force of God... and although such an explanation may seem quaint to all of us today I note that Dr A did not in his giant leap forward did not disagree..the one point he left in the mix as first presented by Newton is that of an explanation of how the force of gravity can be explained..all will chuckle at my observation but dont dismiss it until you grasp the point I make...General relativity leaves the question as to force residing in God's hands for Dr A conveniently avoids "a force"...and if it does I need to be corrected ...
The reason why things will not move forward from the current state of learning is the refusal to accept all is simply measurement of "gravity" that provides no machinery with which we could understand all other things...

I did like the fact the cosmological constant is recognised as this hints at where a machinery may be understood.

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