Re: "Is There a Force of Gravity?"


"N:dlzc D:aol T:com (dlzc)" <N: dlzc1 D:cox T:net@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:HPZ6f.90801$lq6.43459@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Dear Daniel Weston:
SNIP

> Contact forces provide the sensation of gravity. Note that when
> you throw a ball, and observe its "parabolic path", it is not the
> ball that is accelerating. *Your* feet are in contact with the
> Earth, you are accelerated.
>
> Gone over to the Dark side, I see.

Hmm... then, if *you* live in, say, Switzerland and you are *really*
(remember, that was the issue) accelerated by being in contact with the
earth, then the same is true for a guy living in the south of New-Zealand.
OK? But he accelerates in the opposite direction. Thus according to you,
New-Zealand and Switzerland are *really* accelerating away from each other
by 20 m/s^2... I'd say that it's not Daniel who went over to the Dark Side!

Harald


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