Quote from: Lord Pythagoras on September 13, 2012, 10:50:04 PMI understand that helium floats due to its relative weight to air, but you are corrent in that i did overlook the equivalence principle which I suppose would explain how UA seems to be used to explain gravity time and time again. They are both simple theories that cannot be proven, and in the same sense cannot be disproven for the time beingSimple theories yes but from what Ive read Einsteins principle is base off of the force of gravity, and from what I have read so far flat earth does not have gravity due to the upward acceleration of the earth. So theres still an unanswered question on the table.
I understand that helium floats due to its relative weight to air, but you are corrent in that i did overlook the equivalence principle which I suppose would explain how UA seems to be used to explain gravity time and time again. They are both simple theories that cannot be proven, and in the same sense cannot be disproven for the time being
When Tom farts, the special gasses released open a sort of worm hole into the past. There Tom is able to freely discuss with Rowbotham all of his ideas and thoughts.
Meat me
i was just swallowing it whole no problem.
So whats this boards verdict on Newton? Some of his theories may have been busted on the large scale of things(Damn you Eisenstein! *shakes fist*) but when it comes to basic laws of motion his ideas are correct. I am not sure what FE'rs say about air past a certain altitude but in space there is no air, and gravity gets weaker the farther away you go. You get a brick going fast enough it won't only fly, it will break from it's Earthly bonds and it'll keep going and going until something stops it.
I'm pretty sure he was simply using a brick as an example of an object with with considerable mass for its size. Replace the brick with any exotic metal or other material able to withstand traveling through the atmosphere and the principle still applies
Quote from: Nugget42 on September 16, 2012, 02:09:40 PMSo whats this boards verdict on Newton? Some of his theories may have been busted on the large scale of things(Damn you Eisenstein! *shakes fist*) but when it comes to basic laws of motion his ideas are correct. I am not sure what FE'rs say about air past a certain altitude but in space there is no air, and gravity gets weaker the farther away you go. You get a brick going fast enough it won't only fly, it will break from it's Earthly bonds and it'll keep going and going until something stops it. With your brick though, there's the problem of it being burned up in the atmosphere. It would need to be going rather appreciable speeds to break orbit from ground level. Those speed should annihilate it in the atmosphere, being the weak material it is.Ah, you are correct, my brick is not tough enough.But you understand the idea.
So whats this boards verdict on Newton? Some of his theories may have been busted on the large scale of things(Damn you Eisenstein! *shakes fist*) but when it comes to basic laws of motion his ideas are correct. I am not sure what FE'rs say about air past a certain altitude but in space there is no air, and gravity gets weaker the farther away you go. You get a brick going fast enough it won't only fly, it will break from it's Earthly bonds and it'll keep going and going until something stops it. With your brick though, there's the problem of it being burned up in the atmosphere. It would need to be going rather appreciable speeds to break orbit from ground level. Those speed should annihilate it in the atmosphere, being the weak material it is.