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this is for the smart people
Ok this is a dumb question but im going to ask it because im curious and dont know the answer and neither did my teacher. In earth science we are learning about all the planets and thier gravity fields and such. My question is where does gravity come from and what creates it?
mass creates gravity
how are you in college?
There are no dumb question, only dumb people.
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| Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov mass creates gravity |
well gravity comes from.... think about einstein. anything that is on a flat surface... the object creates tension on the flat surave making it spiral down into the object creating the tention.
ehhhh i dont know how to best explain it :/
i never said i was a scientist. I have never taken chemistry or physics so this is why i dont know much about this kind of thing. Now sit me down and lets talk some history or geography and i'm all over it.Oh yeah, floorfiller not all of us know everything like you smarta**.
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| Originally posted by nchs09 einstein created gravity |
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| Originally posted by Floorfiller how are you in college? |
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I thought the best part was:
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| Originally posted by neo geo Ok this is a dumb question but im going to ask it because im curious and dont know the answer and neither did my teacher. In earth science we are learning about all the planets and thier gravity fields and such. My question is where does gravity come from and what creates it? |

meh im fucking wasted, its hard to type what i was thinking...
but let my try to explain it.. if i am wrong someone correct me 
imagine a bowling bowl sits in the middle of your bed. if you put an object near the bowling bowl it will trickel down to the bowlingbowl because there is downward tension on the bed. supposedly to this theory, space works in the same way... the sun,a HUGE object creates tension on space making anything that is close to it (relativly close) is attracted to it... now if that object is in movment, it will continue to rotate around this object. if it is not in motion it will continure to drag towares the bigger object.
basically speaking, everything that has mass [i.e. matter] has a gravitational pull to it. however, it is not until you get to something as massive as the planets do we notice/understand gravity.
while you yourself have a mass, it's miniscule compared to the planets/moons. this is why things don't "gravitate" towards you.
think of it this way, if your wang had the same density/mass of the Earth, you'd have women [and i guess gay men, really] flocking to you.
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| Originally posted by neo geo Ok this is a dumb question but im going to ask it because im curious and dont know the answer and neither did my teacher. In earth science we are learning about all the planets and thier gravity fields and such. My question is where does gravity come from and what creates it? |
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| Originally posted by nchs09 meh im fucking wasted, its hard to type what i was thinking... but let my try to explain it.. if i am wrong someone correct me ![]() imagine a bowling bowl sits in the middle of your bed. if you put an object near the bowling bowl it will trickel down to the bowlingbowl because there is downward tension on the bed. supposedly to this theory, space works in the same way... the sun,a HUGE object creates tension on space making anything that is close to it (relativly close) is attracted to it... now if that object is in movment, it will continue to rotate around this object. if it is not in motion it will continure to drag towares the bigger object. |
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| Originally posted by tubularbills basically speaking, everything that has mass [i.e. matter] has a gravitational pull to it. however, it is not until you get to something as massive as the planets do we notice/understand gravity. while you yourself have a mass, it's miniscule compared to the planets/moons. this is why things don't "gravitate" towards you. think of it this way, if your wang had the same density/mass of the Earth, you'd have women [and i guess gay men, really] flocking to you. |
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| Originally posted by tubularbills it's not necessarily the size [although thats a good generality], but the mass/density of something. if the moon was the size of the sun, but still made out of the same material [i.e. rock], it wouldn't have as great of a gravitational affect of the sun [molton gas, or whatever] |
Do we actually know what causes gravity? Not what it is or how it works, but why it is that mass has this effect on the space around it? I've seen a fair few explanations for 'how,' it works, but none for 'why,' it works that way.
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| Originally posted by nchs09 well the earth has a huge mass.... earth to sun has a more equal mass than a person to the earth. a lot more... so that is where the theory corrects itself, if it was unclear before. |
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| Originally posted by Taranis Do we actually know what causes gravity? Not what it is or how it works, but why it is that mass has this effect on the space around it? I've seen a fair few explanations for 'how,' it works, but none for 'why,' it works that way. |
wow, thanks for the explanations. It's cool to learn something new everyday. My teacher did not even know the answer to this. Thanks a lot you guys.
I think your teacher needs to go back to school.
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| Originally posted by SuspicionVandit yo, nchs. in theory v theory, would you throw String Theory in the rubbish bin or do you think it has an acceptable application? |
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| Originally posted by neo geo wow, thanks for the explanations. It's cool to learn something new everyday. My teacher did not even know the answer to this. Thanks a lot you guys. |
I'm in a similar situation with my Sociology teacher, so I feel very sorry for you that you're paying money to be "educated" by someone who doesn't know what they're talking about. The only difference is that while yours just didn't know what gravity was, mine claimed that Da Vinci�s painting of The Last Supper, The Sims, the internet, McDonald�s and (you�re going to think I�m kidding with the next one) stop signs are all strictly American.
Yeah, my jaw hit the fucking floor with that one.
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| Originally posted by idoru I'm in a similar situation with my Sociology teacher, so I feel very sorry for you that you're paying money to be "educated" by someone who doesn't know what they're talking about. The only difference is that while yours just didn't know what gravity was, mine claimed that Da Vinci�s painting of The Last Supper, The Sims, the internet, McDonald�s and (you�re going to think I�m kidding with the next one) stop signs are all strictly American. Yeah, my jaw hit the fucking floor with that one. |

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