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Brilliant Physicist Explains: Guess What? Gravity Doesn’t Exist

How’s that for a Wednesday evening mind-bender?

Erik Verlinde, a Dutch theoretical physicist and string theorist, has some questions about gravity–one question specifically: where does gravity come from? Turns out, Verlinde explains, that gravity is an illusion.

Brilliant Physicist Explains: Guess What? Gravity Doesnt Exist

Via Big Think, Verlinde says:

Gravity, of course, is something that have, well, many people have already thought about.  It’s something that we see every day and it’s not like it’s not existent in our ordinary life. But what I mean by that it’s an illusion is that one would eventually like to know where it comes from, an explanation.

Up to now we have, well, descriptions, I mean, Newton, of course, is the one famous for first writing down a theory of gravity and he described why apples fall and why the moon goes around the earth using the same basic equation for gravity, but he described it.  He had to assume that gravity was there and then had to write down a law that described that when two masses are a certain distance, how they attract each other.

But he was also not very happy with the fact that we should just, well, assume that these things, these objects, attract each other and without even anything in between.  So if there are two masses and empty space, there’s no, nothing that really happens between them, but still, they’re attracting each other.  And he thought that was kind of mysterious and that it was something he would have liked to explain in a better way.

So later came Einstein and Einstein, with his theory of relativity, eventually realized that also gravity has to be described in a different way….

Watch the physicist explain all of this below:

Read the transcript here.

Comments (282)

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  • jordy2010
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:39pm

    and I’m little Orphan Annie…..

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  • Tractorboy
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:38pm

    so it’s the anti-gravitity, gravitity, that holds everything in place? what the hell kind of drugs is this guy on? Is this guy related to Pelosi?

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  • wbaranowski
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:38pm

    a = a

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  • Epic Fail
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:35pm

    I Told You!!!

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  • riseandshine
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:35pm

    uhhh

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  • E=mcsquared
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:32pm

    Please, just shut the hell up. Yeah, gravity doesn’t exist.

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    • N37BU6
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 12:26am

      Sound doesn’t exist either. It’s all in your head, a 100% biological creation.

      An object created vibrations in the air, which reach your eardrum. Your ear turns that movement into an electrical signal which is carried to the brain and processed into a measurable form, which we call sound.

      So when a tree falls in the forest and there’s nobody around to hear it, does it make a sound? No. Just movement. No ears and brains, no sound.

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    • Rollo2
      Posted on June 4, 2012 at 9:58pm

      So, if a tape recorder is running in the forest when the tree falls, will a sound be recorded?

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  • V-Forge
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:31pm

    The idea is that objects do not attract each other but they follow the natural slope of space time as it is bent by the object it is moving into. There are many strange concepts about gravity and some have been tested. Frame dragging is the resistance of space time to being warped by a moving mass. The rotation of the earth forms a dip or impression in the “Fabric” of space and the rotation of the earth can cause ripples in space time. this was tested by two satellites . Forgive the following link source..
    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6290610/
    The satellites which were at fixed positions in relation to each other should never change their position relative to each other but the fabric changed that measure and the theory was proven. Personally i find it hard to believe and think it could possible be explained in other ways than a disconnected explanation of gravity. I just want some scientist to get off their butts and find a way to move at a decent speed through space or the entire idea of nasa is a waste of time.

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    • Exrepublisheep
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:51pm

      Well said.

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    • TheGreyPiper
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:33pm

      “follow the natural slope of space time as it is bent by the object it is moving into.”

      Unless I am mistaken (a possibility I gladly admit) this is like unto what Einstein said about mass distorting space-time, with the analogy of a bowling ball in the middle of a suspended bedsheet– smaller objects will make their own dents, but will inevitably follow the distortion of the sheet in toward the bowling ball.

      However, I’m not sure that this is any more an answer or explanation than the Newtonian idea that two objects with mass attract each other. Is it *really* saying *more*, to say that an object with mass causes a curvature of space? Why? How? It certainly sounds more glamorous and looks good on glossy magazine covers. I’m just not sure how, as an explanation, it is any more correct or accurate than the conventional line.

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    • JCofPA
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:46pm

      This seems to be more redefining gravity and questioning at a sub molecular level what is causing the attraction that we call gravity. I think it is very interesting. I think he said gravity does exist in our daily lives, but he is using “string theories” to define what mechanics are involved to cause attraction. It could have wider implications than his goal of answering questions about the origins of the universe. If you can understand the physical mechanics behind gravity, theoretically you might be able to manipulate gravity.

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    • V-Forge
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 11:32pm

      @ TheGreyPiper. Yes it is the Einstein explanation. The curvature of space time like the sheet and the ball is what i was talking about. frame dragging uses the same analogy as the sheet but turning the ball makes the sheet ripple and stretch. “frame” is simply used to describe space as that sheet in the form of a grid and each square a frame that is stretched out of shape not just because of the dip in the sheet but the tension of the ball on the sheet as it turns. I‘m not sure of it’s validity because it seems that any form of frame dragging would have to generate an equal force against the rotation and i don’t see many planets coming to a stop very soon unless they are tidally locked with another planet because of their magnetic field. it would seem that even the moon should have an effect of slowing our rotation but i don’t recall that happening either. I think that scientists are grasping at straws and trying to make the math make sense so they can get the juicy grant. Too much we don’t know about things but this guy sounds kinda weak.

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    • Czar Casm
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 12:08am

      If moving mass through space time results in forming some gravity, I wonder how large the mass needs to be before any perceptible gravity is realized? Larger than any space craft that can be constructed I imagine.

      Notice how the space crafts in movies and on tv always seem to have gravity on board? And how they change directions in a vacuum by turning and banking like an airplane in an atmosphere. Funny.

      And here it is 2011…Where’s my damn flying car!!

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    • Physicist_In_Training
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 2:05am

      Good comment. Here’s something interesting to think about with space travel, though. A popularly known effect of special relativity is that an astronaut who gets on a space ship and travels at near-light speeds will experience less time passing than those of us who are earthbound. So this opens up the exciting possibility of traveling to worlds that are hundreds of light-years away, and maybe still getting there in one human lifetime! But, unfortunately, there is another, less well-known effect of special relativity that simultaneously makes high-speed travel impossible, and this is the blue-shift of light waves around the person who’s traveling. At near-light speeds, even the harmless cosmic microwave background radiation of the universe would be turned into deadly gamma rays!

      …by the way, I agree that NASA is useless. When I was really little, I used to think I wanted to work there someday. Last summer I had a brief summer internship at the Goddard Space Flight Center though, and all it took was one week of observing the wastefulness and inefficiency so prevalent there to make me change my mind. They’ve invited me back this summer, but I didn’t even finish reading the email before I hit “delete.”

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    • Czar Casm
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 8:38am

      A shame to hear that about NASA. The nature of bureacracy. I wonder if the federal government is like that? (duh)

      Thanks for the cool info Physicist_In_Training!

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  • Earendil
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:31pm

    Interesting that he sees gravity as a sort of “mass effect,” like temperature and pressure; not something that fundamentally exists on the microscopic level, but something that somehow results from it.

    As I understand it (and my understanding may be flawed) he‘s not saying gravity doesn’t actually exist, but that it is not a fundamental/microscopic force?

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    • Physicist_In_Training
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 1:53am

      I think that’s an accurate assessment. We know that stuff with mass has “gravity,“ just like it has ”pressure“ or ”temperature.” But that doesn’t tell us why these properties exist, or where they come from. He is not denying the effects of gravity, but rather pointing out that we don’t know its cause. That is actually one of the most famous questions in physics, not just now but since the days of Newton himself! Newton once wrote that he felt his greatest shortcoming was his inability to explain the cause of gravity, even though he was able to explain its effects so well (at least on a local, macroscopic level).

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    • Rex Corvinus
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 2:26am

      Physicist_In_Training,

      If gravity is NOT a fundamental force but rather (per Verlinde) a description of the average, what implications would that have on all of the equations which incorporate the universal gravitational constant (G)? Or would it only affect equations at the atomic or quantum level, where the focus is too local for an averaging descriptor to be accurate (like Verlinde’s temp. vs individual molecular motion)?

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    • Omnius
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 2:06am

      @Rex Corvinus,

      It would have the same effect on gravity that the combined effect of all of the vectors of gas molecules have on the temperature of a balloon full of gas. When we measure temperature we are just getting the average energy level of a substance interacting with our testing apparatus (thermometer). What this would mean is that when we measure the weight of something we are simply measuring the average energy level of the mass (without knowing how that energy is stored).

      It might also mean that just like thermodynamics states it is theoretically possible for a cooler object to make a hotter object hotter, if gravity is just an emergent property and not a force it is theoretically possible for an object placed on a scale to weigh less than its mass (but just as in the former situation, the chance of it happening is so small as to be ignorable in the real world).

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  • Eric Von Zipper
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:30pm

    I‘d like to see an illusion of a bowling ball being dropped on this physicist’s head!

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  • fizix
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:26pm

    erm…..as a college physics professor, I need to weigh in here….
    First of all, he’s a “theoretical” physicist. These are the guys who sit around and reason things in and out of existence. That doesn’t mean that this has any practical use. Much of string theory, M-theory, superstring, etc depends on as much as 15 dimensions to make them work. It’s just a theoretical idea. What does it mean? Who knows? It has implications of what we theoretically may be able to do but still…..
    @Showtime- We do indeed accelerate towards the center of our planet at 32 ft/s/s or 9.81 m/s/s.

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    • MODEL82A1
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:57pm

      As a “college physics professor”‘it’s still ok to admit that you don know everything. Is that what you’re doing?

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    • UpstateNYConservative
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:03pm

      Isn‘t there also the theory that it’s not mass but space that ’causes’ gravity? And that gravity is a weak force of itself, but it extends through all the dimensions possible according to Super String theory?

      Just curious; something refreshing from the political nature of the site.

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    • Jabber
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:17pm

      So theoretically he’s a physicist, but in real life he’s a janitor?

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    • fizix
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 2:37am

      I don’t, in any way, claim to know everything. Neither does he. It‘s all about mass and it’s relationship to other masses. Plain and simple/

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  • JohnnyJT South Philly
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:25pm

    No wonder why his head is floating up.

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  • MODEL82A1
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:24pm

    This is exactly the intellectual level at which all Leftist operate. Who are you going to believe, them or your own lying eyes?

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  • taskent12
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:24pm

    PARMAJOHN – If There was No gravity The World would be Upside Down…….Think about it…

    OK – You First!!

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  • veruca salt
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:24pm

    Intelligent falling

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  • RedeyeBlind
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:23pm

    so its not gravity, its the world that sucks

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  • scrapadapolis
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:22pm

    Ok nice piece,I have a really stupid question if earth magnets are found in the earth then why dont buildings made of steel collapse?but yet apples fall to ground?The polar magnets can shift why dosent anything else??

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    • Physicist_In_Training
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 1:44am

      Not a stupid question, a good one. The electromagnetic force is actually much stronger than gravitational force; you’ve probably observed this a dozen times before just playing with magnets. Even a very weak magnet can cause a paper clip to rise, which means that even a very weak magnet can overcome gravity! But just like gravity needs matter to cause particles to interact, the electromagnetic force needs charge in order to cause particles to interact. The net charge of most stuff on earth is 0, which is why we generally don’t notice the magnetic field. Plus it’s pretty weak, as far as magnetic fields go. I suppose, in theory, if we ran a REALLY strong, accelerating current through a building in the right direction, it might cause it to interact strongly enough with the magnetic field to crush the building.

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  • Blazer334
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:22pm

    ….and the point being……?

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    • swigs
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:52pm

      Attraction has to be explained on other terms besides gravity.

      I’m thinking what is observed to be gravity is just another term for electromagnetism.

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    • Rex Corvinus
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 2:11am

      I’m with Swigs on this one. The re-evaluation of Newtonian physics and the re-examination of the role of electromagnetism on a large (cosmic) scale is, if nothing else, an exciting new direction for physics to go in — especially in conjunction with the amazing stuff they’re discovering about plasmas, the electrical nature of the cosmos, and how it ties in with the ZPE.

      21st century physics is already shaping up to be quite as interesting as the 20th century’s.

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    • swigs
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 8:42am

      ZPE…music to my ears :).

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  • wth_happenedtomycountry
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:18pm

    erm….well ok. Pretty difficult to understand because he is trying so hard to water it down for people to understand.

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  • Alan
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:18pm

    That Merriam Webster is one smart chick.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 11:53pm

      Thank you! I just found her today by accidentally right-clicking in a comment box.

      I’ve forgotten who it was that told us about ieSpell, but I don’t have to go to Tools to check spelling! I can right-click in a comment box, in an email, wherever, and there’s ieSpell for me. There are several options, too, like look up in Wikipedia, look up in Merriam Webster, etc.

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  • NutterButter79
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:13pm

    Gravity is an illusion….hmmm…smoke and mirrors. So, Obama isn’t really the president? Just an illusion? I LIKE the way this guy thinks. Lol. But I definitely did fall down the stairs, not up!

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    • TexasProgressive
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:23pm

      Good one, but what else should we expect from someone who named themselves after a cookie?

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    • thebarbarian
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 4:27am

      i’ve seen it happen to really drunk soldiers at benning . you can fall up a stair well

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  • parmajohn
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:12pm

    If There was No gravity The World would be Upside Down…….Think about it…

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    • spirited
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:26pm

      Excedrin

      >anyone?

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    • Sgt.Crust
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:57pm

      hell the world is upside down! I sure can’t figure it out, what is happening to humanity?

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  • Showtime
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:12pm

    MATTER:
    a (1) : the gravitational attraction of the mass of the earth, the moon, or a planet for bodies at or near its surface (2) : a fundamental physical force that is responsible for interactions which occur because of mass between particles, between aggregations of matter (as stars and planets), and between particles (as photons) and aggregations of matter, that is 10-39 times the strength of the strong force, and that extends over infinite distances but is dominant over macroscopic distances especially between aggregations of matter (Merriam Webster)

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    • Michael
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:52pm

      Old definition

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:31pm

      A matter of perspective, the road travels under the chicken.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 11:40pm

      @jzs
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:39pm
      I’ve tried to understand why this topic was even posted here, except to provoke responses to the effect that “he’s saying there is no gravity? Ridiculous! Then why do apples fall down instead of up? Obviously gravity exists. Scientists are stupid!”

      Only John1776 understood the point. This isn’t a new concept. Scientists and philosphers (David Hume) gave up 200 years ago on the concept of “forces” like gravity. Gravity is a shorthand word to describe WHAT we observe, not, as the common perception is, WHY is happens. “Causes” and “forces” like don’t even exist in scientific thought anymore.

      Too deep for this website I imagine. But here’s my example. You are Adam or Eve. You observe that if you drop something it falls to Earth. And you postulate that there is a force, “Gravity” that pull those things to Earth. But why do those things fall to Earth? Sorry, can’t say “because of gravity” because that’s circular reasoning. All you really know is that things fall downward. Invoking the word you invented “gravity” doesn’t explain it.

      Okay, make fun of me.
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      I can’t. I’m still in shock that you made sense! (Just ribbing you. There was nothing political about this story.)

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    • Showtime
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 11:41pm

      “MATTER” ???
      Meant to say “GRAVITY.”
      Must have seen the word in one of the definitions.

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    • rodamaa
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 3:45pm

      They are still looking for the graviton particle but have found nothing so far. Funny, Data manipulates them all the time! I tell ya, those guys in Star Trek are really something.

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:09pm

    And Pelosi isn’t a witch.

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    • spirited
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:25pm

      What is

      >is not.

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    • BeeAlert
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 11:27pm

      That sums it up all right!
      And while I’m here, may I just say I love your username quite a lot. Best TNG episode ever.

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    • mrdbcooper
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 12:29pm

      is she a good wich, or a bad wich…….or a sandwich

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  • Showtime
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:09pm

    Objects float 32 feet per second per second?

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  • Showtime
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:08pm

    I didn’t really fall off the ladder after all! What a relief!

    Report Post » Showtime  
    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:23pm

      Hey Erik Verlinde, why are you NOT floating in the air in your video ?

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    • spirited
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:24pm

      Eyes do not see.
      Words cannot be spoken,
      nor heard.

      Yesterday was not.

      > Now –is not happening

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    • Workforit
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:29pm

      @IRONMAAN… Now that was funny! I agree!

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    • John 1776
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:31pm

      The answer is very simple. In order for us to quantify something, it has to interact with something else we know. For example, electricity and magnatisim. We measure electricity primarily by watching the results of magnetic interaction. Quite possibly, many forces are outside of our view of reality simply because they may not interact in a way we understand with the things we understand.

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    • ozchambers
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:33pm

      Bill Clinton is a genius! He also proved that sex isnt sex!!

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    • ozchambers
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:38pm

      wake me up after the lights come back on someone.

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    • VENTVSBEATVS
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:39pm

      Well, scientific progress is made by continued questioning. Science is not perfect and rightly so, science only provides data, not ANSWERS (as many say it does).

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    • Sgt.Crust
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:53pm

      And poop flies up my butt!

      I love most of the comments on this one, I think I was crying by the time I got down to post, too funny ya’ll…

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    • obama-mecca-me-sick
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:58pm

      Can we have him look at the global warming theory?

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    • BetterDays
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:59pm

      Explains why they don‘t believe in GOD now doesn’t it, goofball.

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    • Dustyluv
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:11pm

      He can prove it by jumping off a tall building too…What an idiot. Our tax dollars hard at work probably…

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:24pm

      Once again, I have to ask where all the education was that got wasted on him…oh, yeah, Liberal based college professors…if something is inconveinent to your views of the world…like gravity…then let it not exist and make up something else.

      Case solved.

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    • silentwatcher
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:26pm

      that explains why I piss on the ceiling everytime I go to the bathroom.

      The video guy started college late and has just completed physics 101… is a D a passing grade?

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    • In a Bunker
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:34pm

      And my friend didn’t fall off the wagon!

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    • Czar Casm
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:38pm

      You know, I’ve always thought gravity was an illusion. Didn‘t ya’ll? It’s been bothering me for years.

      If you bore a hole straight through the planet, say about 10 feet in diameter (forget the magma), and you drop a baseball size stone perfectly down the center of the hole, does it come flying out the other end or does it just float somewhere in the middle. (Warning, do not fire up a doobie and think about this)

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    • jzs
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:39pm

      I’ve tried to understand why this topic was even posted here, except to provoke responses to the effect that “he’s saying there is no gravity? Ridiculous! Then why do apples fall down instead of up? Obviously gravity exists. Scientists are stupid!”

      Only John1776 understood the point. This isn’t a new concept. Scientists and philosphers (David Hume) gave up 200 years ago on the concept of “forces” like gravity. Gravity is a shorthand word to describe WHAT we observe, not, as the common perception is, WHY is happens. “Causes” and “forces” like don’t even exist in scientific thought anymore.

      Too deep for this website I imagine. But here’s my example. You are Adam or Eve. You observe that if you drop something it falls to Earth. And you postulate that there is a force, “Gravity” that pull those things to Earth. But why do those things fall to Earth? Sorry, can’t say “because of gravity” because that’s circular reasoning. All you really know is that things fall downward. Invoking the word you invented “gravity” doesn’t explain it.

      Okay, make fun of me.

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    • NickDeringer
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:39pm

      English translation: we have no clue where gravity comes from, but here are several hundred possible theories.

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    • Professional Infidel
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:40pm

      Just like porn “I know it when I see it”

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    • PA PATRIOT
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:40pm

      OZ, followed the thread with Sarge,
      We are in.
      Honor and Duty

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    • theonefromabove
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:44pm

      Like god we cannot see it.

      http://politicalbowl.com – Political Videos

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    • TulsaYeeHaw
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:59pm

      A massive object warps space time in such a way that creates the results that we call gravity. Massive like the sun or earth.

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    • True2thereplublic
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 11:00pm

      The earth is flat to and someday i plan to walk off the edge………

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    • MyPostingName
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 11:06pm

      At the beginning of the video he starts by saying “ Its something we see everyday”. Right out of the gate he takes an opposite position. I would summarize his position as he doesn’t understand whats going on! One thing I find interesting about all of this is speed at a molecular level is not accounted for. Big Bang Theory doesn’t account for any of which is unseen. One enormous problem I find with Big Bang is that all we see in the sky has happened already at different intervals based on distance and speed. The idea that we have a nice picture of what is going on simultaneously is so wrong that its laughable. Light is refracted across the Universe, where are the equations in Big Bang that account for all the mentioned above. Another words we are understanding better that we don’t understand. In simple terms “The more you learn, the more you realize how little you know”.
      Im dumber then I was before :)

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    • redneck
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 11:09pm

      There’s no gravity, the earth sucks

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    • bullcrapbuster
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 11:17pm

      Well thank you very much. It’s all clear now.

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    • restorehope
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 11:31pm

      Bet he’s a second cousin of Al Gore.

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    • ForgivenWretch
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 11:40pm

      This guy is going to be hired by Barry to look at the deficit.
      @JZS – You put too much time and thought into that.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 11:44pm

      @BetterDays
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:59pm
      Explains why they don‘t believe in GOD now doesn’t it, goofball.
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      Who‘re you callin’ “goofball?!”

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    • TSUNAMI-22
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 12:03am

      Gravity is the force that keeps everyone from falling “up”.

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 12:07am

      There is no Gravity……..someone give Obama a push

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    • TSUNAMI-22
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 12:09am

      ……and they sat that conservatives aren’t open minded???????????

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    • TSUNAMI-22
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 12:10am

      Incidentally, someone should contact Mario Andretti and tell him that this guy stole his hair-piece.

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    • its_time_to_arrest_our_government
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 12:22am

      someone needs to throw him off a high building. ill bet he gets it real fast what gravity is then. what a friggin idiot what school gave this guy a degree? im damn sure not seding my kids where ever he went.

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    • its_time_to_arrest_our_government
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 12:27am

      there is no inteligent life in ******* land eather…..i rest my case..

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 12:34am

      They think they are so, so smart and they can’t stand the fact that there are things they may never understand, and so therefore they say it is an illusion. And more than likely most of the theoretical scientists will never understand those things, no, not in this life or even the next. They will not understand many things until they conquer first. First conquer, and then it makes sense to me that God the Father will just plop us on his lap, and explain it all to us.

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 12:36am

      Furthermore, this strategy is all part of the conditioning going on in the world in that they will say it over and over again taking something that we know to be real and saying that it is an illusion, and therefore if something we experience everyday is an illusion, then it must be that God is an illusion. Right? Wrong. But that is where all these things are going.

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    • Physicist_In_Training
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 1:32am

      There seem to be a lot of very defensive comments here…I suppose you’re all correct though; clearly something causes stuff to fall, so why question what causes it? Obviously my keyboard types, so why offer computer science classes? We should probably just get rid of all science and engineering classes altogether; who cares about this “theory” crap anyway?

      How many of you even watched the video? This man is not saying that gravity does not exist; he’s explaining one of the most famous problems in physics right now, which is that we do not have a well developed theory of gravity. Of all the known forces in the universe, gravity is the one we know the least about. Sure, we know how it behaves, at least locally; but universally there is obviously something wrong with our theory because we cannot even describe the phenomenon of “dark matter,“ which makes up 5 times as much of the universe as observable ”light matter” does. Nor have we been able to discover, and certainly not for lack of trying, a “carrier” particle for gravity, despite the fact that we have theorized about, discovered, and repeatedly observed carrier particles for the source of every other known force.

      Conservatives are supposed to be the champions of free thinking; come on guys, why belittle someone who is simply seeking to find a cause for an observable effect? That’s what we call “logic.” It’s what the liberals are often rightly accused of lacking. At least do some research before jumping to all these conclusions and declaring yourselves the masters of thought over those of us who devote our lives to studying these phenomena and answering these fascinating questions.

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    • Enuff Zenuff
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 6:41am

      .
      It all depends on what the meaning of the word “up” is…

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    • Anarcho Capitalist
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 7:45am

      war is peace
      freedom is slavery
      ignorance is strength

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    • bread and circuses
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 7:55am

      @PHYSICIST IN TRAINING
      LMAO, you are trying to talk reason to a brick wall from the dark ages.
      It is sad to see that “cause and effect” escapes some ppl, so they only address the “effect”, and claim the “cause” as God. These are the same ppl who “pray for you” and quote from the Bible, and have never read it.
      dark energy, dark matter have no meaning for some because their minds are closed, much like the flat earthers.

      I wish you luck in finding any here who can even understand that an apple is actually is a pomegranete.

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    • Secret Squirrel
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:38am

      ………
      I believe in gravity. Every time I step in the bathroom scale.
      So, I really don’t need to loose weight, I need to discredit gravity!
      Pass the pie!

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    • ZOMBIE JESUS LOVES ME
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:07am

      I’m not sure about all this.

      I need to see what Sarah Palin thinks. If she says there’s no gravity, that’s good enough for me.

      TELL US WHAT TO THINK, SARAH!

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    • mrdbcooper
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:19am

      As an old crusty jumpmaster, I can tell you that Mr. gravity does exist…when a parachute fails to open, the resulting fatality due to ground impact is not an illusion.

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    • Sgt.Crust
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:19am

      Liberal fools are the tools, soon you will be used up and washed away, by your own kind. Liberal progressives don’t know history and are doomed to repeat it – go look up Mao, Stalin and Hitler pfffft.

      TO PAPATRIOT – I am in as well, did Oz contact you, or you him? I can’t seem to get an answer, where, when, how?

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    • Bhaub
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:29am

      @Dustyluv,

      Our tax dollars most likely didn’t pay for a Dutch physicist to research. But I respect your chance to rage about our government. Socialism and all that.

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    • AzCowboy
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:30am

      Consider Gravity

      Presume: Space is gravitationally neutral (or better put, space is a pool of equal gravity objects (dark matter))
      A Mass object attracts gravity due to it being opposite of a gravity object. Opposites attract.

      Lets use general numbers for conversational purposes.

      Consider the earth as a mass of 100

      With a mass of 100 it pulls the gravity objects to it’s center of mass at 18.6 meters per second per second. After reaching the center of the mass we have a equal but opposite reaction. One object of gravity traveling at N strikes another coming from the opposite direction. This results in the speed of the now bouncing back object of gravity at 9.3 meters per second per second due to the fact that half the energy was lost due to heat\light etc. being generated from impact. This means you are being rained down on at 18.6m\s\s but the bounce gravity object is pushing you up at 9.3m\m\s thus the measured 9.3m\s\s gravitational downward force on you. The bounced objects are returned to the pool. We have no loss of dark matter, just a loss of speed. The speed was transformed to heat\light etc..

      Now to explain why objects of different densities weigh more. The denser the object the more resistance to the gravity objects passing through it. Density is the resistance to the gravity object passing through it. Gravity objects are so small that they pass through everything, but density of the object is the resistance to the flow. Mass and density are 2 different things. Lets assume Hydrogen has a mass of 1 and a density of 1. The same mass of Lead has a mass of 1and a density of 82. In order to have the same mass you would need 82 hydrogen objects. In size the 82 hydrogen objects would be 82 times the volume. Thus less resistance to gravity. That’s why balloons filled with hydrogen float. Hydrogen is less dense than air. If the 82 hydrogen objects were to be compressed to the same volume as lead occupies, It would no longer be hydrogen. It would be lead. The alchemist of the past were wanting to expand the density of lead 82 to a density of 79 (GOLD). This can be done. Normally we would make lighter things heavier (compression). That’s what super nova’s do. It would take the energy of a black hole to do the reverse. But that’s another issue indeed. Same theory applies.

      Sources:
      I don’t have a clue, so my horse explained all of this to me.
      Opposites attract– I’m a redneck and my wife is a sixties college girl from Berkeley. Figure that!!
      Have a nice day
      JH…

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    • KPEdwards
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:34am

      What is seriously disappointing is that there is absolutely no mention of what Verlinde’s theory is. If anybody is curious, it hinges on gravity being an effect of entropic forces. That gravity is a consequence of entropy and the thermodynamics. Instead his theory is taken out of context as ‘gravity is an illusion’ when really the theory is just trying to take the Law of Gravitation Force out of the axioms of physics assumed.

      Secondly, this is old news. He published the theory in Jan of 2010. It’s already seen papers published pointing out holes when, if I remember correctly, relativity is taken into account. Although, in the original paper Verlinde did not go into that area. So, it might just be ill-defined for it and need tweaking.

      Lastly, there seems to be a misunderstanding of what it means to prove something. There‘s a lot of tongue in cheek ’good thing I didnt fall last night’ or what have you. There is no way to physically prove that a ball will drop when let go. I (and the rest of the physics world) would love to hear the proof if you think you have one.

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    • AzCowboy
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:55am

      Credentials :M.I.T (Mountains In Tennesse) lol

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    • MadhatterL7
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 12:36pm

      He was not saying that gravity does not exist. He was saying that we have no EXACT way to define it Scientifically or Mathematically. The current defined laws ignores certain principals that we now know to be true. This happens a lot in Physics. Hence the push towards String theory. Very fascinating…..

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    • Cerealface
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 12:37pm

      Some idiots up in here.

      Pressure keeps you on earth.
      Satellites orbit earth because they are constantly falling. They experience weightlessness still because of lack of pressure from an atmosphere. The weight of the atmosphere on the ocean is great, that is why as you go deeper, the pressure builds.

      He‘s saying gravity doesn’t exist and some of your minds here can’t comprehend that we give a small quantitative measure to this idea. (His Temperature Example, temperature doesn’t exist, it’s a measure of energy in the particles around you just like he said.)

      You probably still think the sun revolves around the earth.

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    • Bloody Sam
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 1:15pm

      This is all horsecrap.
      An object at rest tends to stay at rest unless acted upon by another force. Thermodynamics has nothing to do with it. Place a smaller object with some mass at perfect rest in the proximity of an object with 10,000 times the mass of the smaller object and the smaller object will move towards the larger object. Easily reproducible 1 million times out of 1 million times no matter what the temperature of the objects or the surrounding medium is.
      Temperature variation is not a viable explanation because the objects will move together no matter what temperature of anything in the experiment is.
      You don’t need mathematics to prove this. Simple scientific method will suffice.
      This guy’s theories remind me of all the hullaballo over dark matter and dark energy.
      Cosmologists come up with a mathematical construct to fill the holes in some other cosmolgist’s mathematics and present it as fact….despite the fact that the substance created by this mathematical construct cannot be directly observed or touched or captured or otherwise proven to exist…just mathematics. Sorry. It will take more than that.

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    • imreddog
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 2:27pm

      Why you dummies! Gravity doesn’t exist because Congress repealed the law of gravity. Next year, they plan on moving the deer crossings to places where it is safer for the deer to cross the roads.

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    • imreddog
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 2:29pm

      Oh, I forgot… this guy is an idiot. He must be related to Al Gore and “dumb as a rock” Obama.

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    • imreddog
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 2:32pm

      Oh, this guy forgot to tell you that he is a physicist…. the person that puts the “fizz” in soda pop.

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    • rodamaa
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 3:37pm

      Why do I get a feeling this guy is a graduate of the Obama’s School of Rhetoric. He talked and talked but did not give a clear idea where he thinks gravity comes from. There are four forces in the universe as we understand it right now

      1 Strong force — nuclear force protons and neutrons
      2 Weak force — interaction of particles
      3 Electromagnetic — Electrons (light, radio waves, glenn and rush)
      4 Gravity (800 pound gorilla in the room)

      There supposition about the other forces as well but the problem is that they have been trying to come up with the theory of everything and gravity keeps creating problems for them. So why not take a page from the Left and make it go away, demonize it or just make it go away. This way they can finish their theory and call it done.

      He talked about string theory, thermodynamic and God knows what else. But he seemed all over the place. With string theory we started with one and went up to six different theory and then decided that there was only really one. Quantum mechanics plays nice with string theory but not gravity which in order to explain they have added 7 new dimensions to our already know 4 we have namely:

      Up
      Down
      Depth (left / right)
      Time

      The others are dimensions are basically mathematical aberrations to try and explain away amongst other thing Gravity. You herd the term “gravitational singularity” which I think it means, “This stupid equation is giving me a stupid result”. You know, like Obama.

      The original version of string theory goes back to the thirties, almost as long as the progressives have been trying to destroy this country. From my vantage point the progressive are way ahead of them. There lies the problem , the progressive just have to get the majority of us to believe their garbage. These guys [scientists] have to deal with the truth and the truth as Glenn says has no agenda. Another problem is that they are dealing with the greatest problem of all –Creation– the greatest problem of all and where God still the undisputed Champion

      Anyway, that my lame opinion on this subject

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    • right-wing-waco
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 3:51pm

      @cheezwhiz
      He IS floating in the air… inside his head. He and Al Gorsky should get together. The have so much in common.

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    • AlmostaCowboy
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 4:36pm

      Me neither. And, my pelvis wasn’t really broken in two places.

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    • WhiteFang
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 5:23pm

      I wish I was as smart as he is.

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    • ValiantDefender
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 1:06am

      @JZS – I totally understand and appreciate your opinion.

      @all the rest of you…the ones who laugh about him jumping off a building and then “getting” what gravity is. You obviously put zero thought into this.

      I’ve done a lot of thinking about gravity. I came to the conclusion years ago (after many debates with atheists trying to scientifically disprove God) that all science has is observation, measurement and pretty good guesses. Clearly this Physicist isn’t saying there is no force that holds us down. In fact, the label on this article is a bit misleading. I wonder how many of you here even watched the entire thing.

      He asks us to think. He says we have equations that describe the effects of gravity…and they’re pretty accurate. But what are the mechanics of gravity? Is it even what we assume it to be? If you follow science at all, you’ll see that string theory (which has its own major problems) is an attempt to combine the equations of all the forces. Strong/Weak nuclear force, electro magnetism and gravity. This was Einsteins dream! But he could never figure it out. So the current iterations of this universal string theory equation have several problems. For one, Gravity should be stronger than it is…so they theorize that perhaps Gravity originates in one of the other 12 dimensions that we cannot see, and we just get residual effects of gravity from that other dimension. *shrug*.

      If we continue to try and find the mechanics of gravity, we could begin to manipulate it. Much like understanding electricity brought about the digital revolution. Imagine what understanding mechanics of gravity could do for us! We assume its the ‘bending of space – time” because someone smart said so. Be he does “know” that to be true. Its a great theory…the equations accurately describe the motion of planets…but does that prove the existance of a bending space time?

      Next, we’ll argue about “time” and how it is also just an illusion.

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