Re: "Is There a Force of Gravity?"



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Toob wrote:
"Is There a Force of Gravity?"

if you feel a pressure in your feet, then it is a force

Swing an object on a string. There is one force on the object...
that of the string.

There is one force in a body at rest on the surface of a planet.
That of the planet pushing up on "the feet". Gravity is not a
force. "Lithospheric friction" is.

David A. Smith


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