(March 7, 2014 at 6:27 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:(March 7, 2014 at 6:05 pm)Fromper Wrote:
Actually, gravity really is just a theory, and a disproven one, at that. Newton's math was very, very, VERY close, but not quite perfect, because he was missing details that couldn't be observed on anything smaller than trying to predict the orbit of the planets around the sun. And even then, his math was only noticeably wrong for Mercury, by a very small fraction of a percent (He was off by 43/3600 of a degree per century). Einstein's General Theory of Relativity corrected this.
I'm currently reading Hawking's "A Brief History of Time", which goes into a lot of this, including the Big Bang. I highly recommend it. I think you're underestimating how much evidence there is for the Big Bang Theory.
The Big Bang theory is a silly Catholic theory about creation. If you think about it you will see how ridiculous it is. It only works for a supernova and it can't be applied for the entire universe.
If you don't believe in gravity go step off of a high bridge, cliff, or building without a parachute. If you don't end up smashing into the ground you may have a point. But I'll bet that you will fall like a rock and kill yourself. BTW, how do you explain how things always eventually fall toward the ground?
His point was that Newtonian gravity, that does not work for close to the speed of light and near black holes perfectly, and even in the obit of mercury slightly, needs a small adjustment and actually an alternate mathematical theory appears to have more validity. He left out additional alternatives that we have not distinguished between yet with actual experiments. It sort of is confusing if you don't get the reference.
However people can still hit a 12 foot or smaller circle with an ICBM using the "flawed" theory so I will continue to call it a law, which has been refined.
Actually the big bang as being heavily influenced by the concept of god the creator is interesting, but not relevant to if it is true or not. We do know about a lot of evolution of the stars that is not at all as speculative as the early seconds of the big bang, and extremely reliable. It is very interesting and often neglected.
