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RE: Is Gravity acting upwards or downwards?
August 3, 2015 at 1:46 am
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(August 2, 2015 at 9:02 pm)IATIA Wrote: (August 1, 2015 at 5:22 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: You're confusing work (pushing the two masses) with acceleration. When objects are accelerating due to gravity, the mass of the object doesn't matter. Galileo demonstrated this by dropping a cannon ball and a bullet from a height, and they hit the ground at the same time. So no, gravity doesn't 'push' or 'pull' either upwards or downwards - is an attractive force between two masses.
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Actually, if one considers the gravitational pull of the cannon ball and the bullet, the cannon ball must fall faster, albeit a negligible difference in that experiment.
Although not if you drop them next to each other, at the same time from the same height 
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RE: Is Gravity acting upwards or downwards?
August 3, 2015 at 3:15 am
See, this is why I don't do physics. It's almost like meth ಠ_ಠ
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RE: Is Gravity acting upwards or downwards?
August 3, 2015 at 3:55 am
(August 3, 2015 at 3:15 am)Neimenovic Wrote: See, this is why I don't do physics. It's almost like meth ಠ_ಠ
What do you call the physics of meth?
Methaphysics.
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RE: Is Gravity acting upwards or downwards?
August 3, 2015 at 4:46 am
I just realizdd that things fall upwards in Australia all the time!!! Omfg
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RE: Is Gravity acting upwards or downwards?
August 3, 2015 at 5:01 am
(August 3, 2015 at 4:46 am)Alex K Wrote: I just realizdd that things fall upwards in Australia all the time!!! Omfg It's plausible.
If a heavier object falls quicker,even slightly quicker than a lighter object,then it can't be a gravitational pull but a gravitational push.  
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RE: Is Gravity acting upwards or downwards?
August 3, 2015 at 12:22 pm
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I don't really understand how you came to the conclusion you came to.
A push is an action in which the body causing the pushing moves the object it is pushing away from it.
A pull is an action in which the body causing the pulling moves the object toward it.
Neither of those definitions has anything to do with acceleration, or with anything but the object causing the action and the object being acted on. That is, the comparison itself of how object A interacts with the earth to how object B interacts with the earth, tells us nothing about the nature of the force being applied to it. Only the description of the interaction between object A and the earth tells us the nature of the force being applied to object A from the Earth.
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RE: Is Gravity acting upwards or downwards?
August 3, 2015 at 12:45 pm
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I'll tell you how i thought about this:
If you have two objects in front of you each attached to separate ropes and you pull each of the objects towards you the lighter object will come faster than the heavier object.
If you have two objects in front of you and if you had to push them away from you,you'd be able to push the lighter object away quicker than the heavier object.
If gravity was pulling stuff towards the center of earth then lighter objects would fall faster than heavier objects,but if it were pushing objects away from the surface of earth then heavier objects would fall faster than lighter object.
Get it?As in,get how i thought about it,not that i'm right or anything,it's just a thought.
Edit:
Like gravity would be like an imaginary bubble and when two objects were to be placed on top of it,the heavier object would come down faster than the lighter object,the bubble is pushing it up but it is overwhelmed.
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RE: Is Gravity acting upwards or downwards?
August 3, 2015 at 12:51 pm
Yeah, I get what you are saying more now. Still wrong, but I understand the thought process!
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RE: Is Gravity acting upwards or downwards?
August 3, 2015 at 12:55 pm
(August 3, 2015 at 12:51 pm)Aristocatt Wrote: Yeah, I get what you are saying more now. Still wrong, but I understand the thought process!
It seemed reasonable for me to be right to me,not to anyone else apparently. xD
Glad to help convey my moronic thoughts!
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RE: Is Gravity acting upwards or downwards?
August 3, 2015 at 2:23 pm
So why would objects fall at all in that picture? 
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