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Originally Posted by sjastro
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Steven,
Alex is talking about definition.. or even the very existence of attraction force...
In a discussion with me couple of years ago, he was arguing that the attraction can't exist because, according to him, there is no mechanical way to communicate this force to other bodies ("come to me... ").. while it is quite easy to understand "pushing" force (as result of collision).
So, he was arguing (and he still does, obviously) that the attraction force between two bodies is actually a manifestation of push, resulting from flow of hypothetical particles (we called it "push_itron" or "pussitron") coming from everywhere, and effect of mutual screening of that flow by two nearby bodies.. So the attraction, according to him is just an illusion.
Obviously, this discussion is not over yet
EDIT:
"push_itron" is spelled as this to circumvent the built-in dirty language detector of this forum (at least it was working last time when we had this discussion)