Antigravity's Cat [Humor] 2: So How Do You Negate g or G?

From Osher Doctorow mdoctorow@xxxxxxxxxxx

Before I continue, I want to thank Hexenmeister for yawning :>)

Actually, I must make a slight correction to last time: I don't predict
zero g or G but g (or G) with an exponent of 1, which for g at least
means a very small g. However, that's only from the variable exponent
machinery, which may not be the last word (see below).

Now I continue with the hypothetical conversation between O and S.

O: Now let's negate the gravitational pull via its coupling constant G
or via the acceleration due to gravity g which for example is taken at
or near the earth's surface.

S. O.K., if you can do that, then it would be remarkable.

O. So now we return to the cat, or even to Sir Isaac Newton, or for
that matter even to ourselves. How do you experience gravity?

S. Well, there is this downward tug when I'm trying to left weights.

O. Aha! Yes, we all experience gravity by a downward pull. Now,
according to Asian Martial Arts including Tai Chi, there is also an
upward pull or push. Why does the chi'i sink downward to around the
navel or below?

S. It's tired from doing too much exercise.

O. Actually, it's more likely due to gravity. The dinosaurs, from
which birds come, faced a similar quandary, having to lift their legs
against gravity on a larger physical scale, perhaps sometimes against
bog-like suction. But my point is that if gravity feels like a
downward pull, then maybe we have an upward sense of the "opposite"
directional pull or push. Maybe the "ascending/rising ch'i" isn't just
imagination but an actual sense of the "force from infinity" pulling
outward-upward.

S. Human perception again.

O. Yes, but notice how often perception is tied to reality if we
maintain emotional tranquility or neutrality. Well, anyway, I say that
the dinosaurs ascended...

S. Hold on, did you say "the dinoaurs ascended?"

O. Well, only figuratively. They started thinking "antigravity" in
some pictorial sense, and that affected their genes, and they began
producing birdlike dinosaurs called pterodactyles, and then the birds
took over and the dinosaurs became birdlike, and the bigger birds were
too heavy to fly and died. No meteors, no comets, etc. But even that
isn't my point. If the dinosaurs did it, maybe it only requires a sign
change from + to - in the coupling constant or the acceleration
constant to eliminate gravitation. After all, the dinosaurs were not
that sophisticated. They have even been accused of being dumb.

S. But are you telling me that we'll fly through our descendants'
genes?

O. Yes and no. That might happen, but right now I am concerned not
with us and not with our descendants but with neutered cats. We send
up a neutered cat in a spacecraft and on cue it thinks "rise" instead
of "fall". After all, fear of falling is somewhat likely after you've
been catapulted upward by God-knows-what-forces which are our rockets.
Cats, moreover, control their directional behavior quite well compared
to most humans, don't you think? And this reverses the sign of its g
or G. I calculate that at a certain distance from the sun, it will
accelerate toward the Andromeda galaxy. Cats think "up" instead of
"down". People, I think, tend to think "down" instead of up, possibly
because apelike-monkeylike relatives tended to fall out of trees with
rather painful consequences. Fear of falling and all that.

(to be continued?)

Osher Doctorow

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