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Is Gravity acting upwards or downwards?

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Is Gravity acting upwards or downwards?
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RE: Is Gravity acting upwards or downwards?
August 5, 2015 at 4:14 am
(August 4, 2015 at 8:09 pm)Jenny A Wrote:
(August 1, 2015 at 7:05 am)Alex K Wrote: Just a second, let me clarify everything for you with my superior physics:

Bla bla geodesics bla bla bla spacetime bla

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I think he'd be real pissed if you took his baby O_o
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RE: Is Gravity acting upwards or downwards?
August 5, 2015 at 9:22 am
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(August 5, 2015 at 4:14 am)Neimenovic Wrote:
(August 4, 2015 at 8:09 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Can I have your babies? 

I think he'd be real pissed if you took his baby O_o

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RE: Is Gravity acting upwards or downwards?
August 5, 2015 at 5:22 pm (This post was last modified: August 5, 2015 at 5:24 pm by IATIA.)
(August 4, 2015 at 10:43 pm)pool Wrote:
(August 4, 2015 at 8:03 pm)IATIA Wrote: And to the OP, IMHO, we are being pushed toward the earth rather than pulled toward the earth.  Just like a vacuum, you do not get sucked into space, you get pushed.

You're probably going to find me disturbingly stupid when you find out that i was saying that we weren't being pushed of pulled towards the earth but away from the earth.
Yup,i said that we were being pushed away from earth.

When dealing with gravity and acceleration, either viewpoint is correct. Under acceleration the ground is pushing you faster and faster, whereas gravity 'pulls' you down. The math is the same either way.

Without a reference point, there is no way to distinguish between gravity or linear acceleration.
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RE: Is Gravity acting upwards or downwards?
August 7, 2015 at 5:46 pm (This post was last modified: August 7, 2015 at 5:47 pm by bennyboy.)
How about this? Maybe space provides a never-ending pressure, and matter doesn't. So matter, anwhere in space, creates a lowered pressure, aka a force vacuum.

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RE: Is Gravity acting upwards or downwards?
August 7, 2015 at 5:48 pm
(August 7, 2015 at 5:46 pm)bennyboy Wrote: How about this?  Maybe space provides a never-ending pressure, and matter doesn't.  So matter, anwhere in space, creates a lowered pressure, aka a force vacuum.

God, why wasn't I born in the 16th century.  Somewhere THERE might have thought I was smart and wanted to have MY babies! Tongue

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