Re: Gravity's equal and non equal acceleration
- From: rryker1@xxxxxxxx
- Date: 25 Oct 2005 18:02:58 -0700
Androcles wrote:
> "Rod Ryker" <rryker@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> | "MP" <pet.antispam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> | > Rod Ryker wrote:
> | > > Rod: As my good friend Bill Hobba pointed out,
> | > > I have been rehashing old arguments.
> | > > So, Billy, this ones for you. :)
> | > >
> | > > Galileo proved that two cannon balls 10 to 1 ratio,
> | > > accelerate at the same rate.
> | > > However, upon landing on Earth, they accelerate
> | > > at different rates, IOW's weight.
> | > > Why the contradiction?
> | >
> | > The apparent contradiction is resolved
> | > in General Relativity.
> | >
> | > According to General Relativity the
> | > cannonballs do *not* accelerate, when
> | > they are in free fall. They *do*
> | > accelerate, when they "weigh", e.g.
> | > when they "rest" at the surface of
> | > the earth. [The electromagnetic forces
> | > push against the natural motion that
> | > the cannonballs would have, if there
> | > were no matter at the earth's surface
> | > prohibiting natural (geodesic) motion,
> | > e.g. free fall]
> | >
> | > According to Newton's theory of gravity
> | > the cannon balls "accelerate" (with respect
> | > to absolute space), *when* they are in free
> | > fall. They do *not* accelerate (with respect
> | > to absolute space), when they rest on the
> | > surface of the earth.
> | >
> | >
> | > You mixed Newtonian ideas with ideas
> | > of general relativy. Therefore the
> | > apparent contradiction.
> | >
> | > MP
> |
> | Rod: Thank you for your comments. :)
> | Any one else.
>
> This is amusing:
> [The electromagnetic forces
> push against the natural motion that
> the cannonballs would have, if there
> were no matter at the earth's surface
> prohibiting natural (geodesic) motion,
> e.g. free fall]
> He's mixing Newtonian ideas with ideas of general relativity.
>
> Androcles.
Rod: Great. :)
Now, why do masses attract masses?
It's the same reason, which you did not address,
that the two cannon balls accelerate equally.
Rod Ryker...
It is reasoning and faith that bind truth.
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