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Flat Earth Discussion Boards => Flat Earth Q&A => Topic started by: The Government on February 17, 2007, 01:25:46 PM

Title: Hey Thomas
Post by: The Government on February 17, 2007, 01:25:46 PM
How do explain how your hair stands UP when you reach the peak of the vertical?
Title: Hey Thomas
Post by: MooBs on February 17, 2007, 01:27:05 PM
Its the moon sucking out your brains.
Title: Hey Thomas
Post by: The Government on February 17, 2007, 01:50:40 PM
ahem...
Title: Re: Hey Thomas
Post by: BOGWarrior89 on February 17, 2007, 01:51:05 PM
Quote from: "The Government"
How do explain how your hair stands UP when you reach the peak of the vertical?


Free fall.
Title: Re: Hey Thomas
Post by: The Government on February 17, 2007, 02:47:39 PM
Quote from: "BOGWarrior89"
Quote from: "The Government"
How do explain how your hair stands UP when you reach the peak of the vertical?


Free fall.


yea but if the earth is accelerating upward , there is no way your hair could stand up
Title: Hey Thomas
Post by: TheEngineer on February 17, 2007, 03:00:35 PM
What the hell are you guys talking about?
Title: Hey Thomas
Post by: The Government on February 17, 2007, 03:03:23 PM
Quote from: "TheEngineer"
What the hell are you guys talking about?


Ok lets see if i can put this together for the slow one...


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if the earth is accelerating upward...How do explain how your hair stands UP when you reach the peak of the vertical(jump)?
Title: Hey Thomas
Post by: GeoGuy on February 17, 2007, 03:04:20 PM
Air resistance.
Title: Hey Thomas
Post by: TheEngineer on February 17, 2007, 03:05:01 PM
Hmm, we must have different internets because the post reads:
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How do explain how your hair stands UP when you reach the peak of the vertical?
Title: Hey Thomas
Post by: The Government on February 17, 2007, 03:05:16 PM
Quote from: "GeoGuy"
Air resistance.


exactly... when you are in the down fall of your jump, the air resistance catches your hair
Title: Hey Thomas
Post by: GeoGuy on February 17, 2007, 03:06:00 PM
Why ask the question if you already knew the answer?
Title: Hey Thomas
Post by: The Government on February 17, 2007, 03:06:48 PM
Quote from: "TheEngineer"
Hmm, we must have different internets because the post reads:
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How do explain how your hair stands UP when you reach the peak of the vertical?


Hmm, maybe you need some common sense and read the rest of the thread and get a clue


Quote from: "GeoGuy"
Why ask the question if you already knew the answer?


because i just disproved the theory that the earth accelerates upwards instead of having gravity
Title: Hey Thomas
Post by: The Government on February 17, 2007, 03:16:37 PM
ohh why stop? run out of excuses?
Title: Hey Thomas
Post by: BOGWarrior89 on February 17, 2007, 03:18:14 PM
Quote from: "The Government"
Quote from: "GeoGuy"
Why ask the question if you already knew the answer?


because i just disproved the theory that the earth accelerates upwards instead of having gravity


Uhh, no, you didn't.
Title: Hey Thomas
Post by: The Government on February 17, 2007, 03:19:40 PM
Quote from: "BOGWarrior89"
Quote from: "The Government"
Quote from: "GeoGuy"
Why ask the question if you already knew the answer?


because i just disproved the theory that the earth accelerates upwards instead of having gravity


Uhh, no, you didn't.



Uhh, yea, I did.
Title: Hey Thomas
Post by: Tom Bishop on February 17, 2007, 03:21:03 PM
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Uhh, yea, I did.


Not in the slightest. :roll:
Title: Hey Thomas
Post by: The Government on February 17, 2007, 03:22:40 PM
Quote from: "Tom Bishop"
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Uhh, yea, I did.


Not in the slightest. :roll:


Ok then disprove me
Title: Hey Thomas
Post by: TheEngineer on February 17, 2007, 03:23:24 PM
Your hair up due to air resistance, which you already said you knew.
Title: Hey Thomas
Post by: The Government on February 17, 2007, 03:28:59 PM
Quote from: "TheEngineer"
Your hair up due to air resistance, which you already said you knew.


how would resistance come about when all your technically is moving up
Title: Hey Thomas
Post by: TheEngineer on February 17, 2007, 03:44:02 PM
Due to the earth accelerating all that is in contact with it.
Title: Hey Thomas
Post by: NarmaK on February 17, 2007, 03:45:46 PM
Explain why it happens in a vacuum.
Title: Hey Thomas
Post by: TheEngineer on February 17, 2007, 03:46:55 PM
Does it?
Title: Hey Thomas
Post by: NarmaK on February 17, 2007, 03:48:53 PM
Yeah.
Honestly though, it has nothing to do with gravity. It's just a change in inertia.
Title: Hey Thomas
Post by: The Government on February 17, 2007, 03:50:59 PM
Quote from: "TheEngineer"
Due to the earth accelerating all that is in contact with it.


But your buddy tom says the earth 'falls' up to you instead of you coming down


and there would be no change in inertia if there is no down motion
Title: Hey Thomas
Post by: Ammo on February 17, 2007, 03:51:20 PM
Quote from: "NarmaK"
Yeah.
Honestly though, it has nothing to do with gravity. It's just a change in inertia.

/nod
Title: Hey Thomas
Post by: NarmaK on February 17, 2007, 03:53:19 PM
Quote from: "The Government"
Quote from: "TheEngineer"
Due to the earth accelerating all that is in contact with it.


But your buddy tom says the earth 'falls' up to you instead of you coming down


and there would be no change in inertia if there is no down motion

Oh right, I forgot.
I guess the earth really is round.
They almost had me there for a second.
Alllllmost!
 :wink:
I'm gonna have to keep an eye on you guys.
Title: Hey Thomas
Post by: GeoGuy on February 17, 2007, 03:54:17 PM
Quote from: "NarmaK"
It's just a change in inertia.

No it isn't. Your hair would fall at the same rate as the rest of you in a vacuum.
Title: Hey Thomas
Post by: TheEngineer on February 17, 2007, 03:58:00 PM
Quote from: "GeoGuy"
Quote from: "NarmaK"
It's just a change in inertia.

No it isn't. Your hair would fall at the same rate as the rest of you in a vacuum.

/nod
Title: Hey Thomas
Post by: EvilToothpaste on February 17, 2007, 04:31:31 PM
There is another thread about this EXACT topic I answered just yesterday.  But why am I surprised?  Geoguy is right, kids!
Title: Hey Thomas
Post by: GeoGuy on February 17, 2007, 04:37:43 PM
Only one?
Title: Hey Thomas
Post by: NarmaK on February 17, 2007, 04:43:55 PM
Quote from: "GeoGuy"
Quote from: "NarmaK"
It's just a change in inertia.

No it isn't. Your hair would fall at the same rate as the rest of you in a vacuum.

Yeah but they wouldn't start falling at the same time.
Inertia is determined by mass.
Title: Hey Thomas
Post by: GeoGuy on February 17, 2007, 04:46:21 PM
Yes they would.
Title: Hey Thomas
Post by: The Government on February 17, 2007, 04:52:28 PM
Quote from: "EvilToothpaste"
There is another thread about this EXACT topic I answered just yesterday.  But why am I surprised?  Geoguy is right, kids!


yea i know..i copied and pasted this exact question that I asked in said topic, but i wanted to see what bill thought
Title: Hey Thomas
Post by: NarmaK on February 17, 2007, 05:03:03 PM
Quote from: "GeoGuy"
Yes they would.

If you say so, captain.
Title: Hey Thomas
Post by: TheEngineer on February 17, 2007, 05:09:37 PM
Since you people don't understand:

Gravity and acceleration are locally indistinguishable.  There is no experiment or observation that can differentiate between the two locally.  There is no observed effect, due to gravity, about a pendulum, airplane wing, rock or hair on someone's head, that cannot be explained by acceleration.  

For more information, see Einstein's Equivalence Principle.
Title: Hey Thomas
Post by: NarmaK on February 17, 2007, 05:17:43 PM
Quote from: "TheEngineer"
Since you people don't understand:

Gravity and acceleration are locally indistinguishable.  There is no experiment or observation that can differentiate between the two locally.  There is no observed effect, due to gravity, about a pendulum, airplane wing, rock or hair on someone's head, that cannot be explained by acceleration.  

For more information, see Einstein's Equivalence Principle.

Except that gravity on earth is detectable as radiating from a spherical point.
Did I forget to mention, gravity is detectable. They use the process to find underground oil caverns.
Title: Hey Thomas
Post by: David Duchovny on February 17, 2007, 05:22:51 PM
Quote from: "TheEngineer"
Since you people don't understand:

Gravity and acceleration are locally indistinguishable.  There is no experiment or observation that can differentiate between the two locally.  There is no observed effect, due to gravity, about a pendulum, airplane wing, rock or hair on someone's head, that cannot be explained by acceleration.  

For more information, see Einstein's Equivalence Principle.


Einstein believed in a round earth, why are you listening to him?
Title: Hey Thomas
Post by: TheEngineer on February 17, 2007, 05:24:35 PM
Quote from: "NarmaK"

Except that gravity on earth is detectable as radiating

What is being radiated?
Title: Hey Thomas
Post by: NarmaK on February 17, 2007, 05:33:53 PM
Negative pressure.
Individual gravitons would only be detectable by particles smaller than gravitons, which may be impossible as gravitons could very well be the smallest particles in existence. So claiming gravity doesn't exist because we can't see them is bullshit.

(http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/WebImg/ChicxGravityMap.jpg)
This is a gravity map of an underground crater.
The darker parts are looser sediments from after the crater was gouged out.
Title: Re: Hey Thomas
Post by: Vauxhall the Vampire on February 17, 2007, 05:37:34 PM
Quote from: "BOGWarrior89"
Quote from: "The Government"
How do explain how your hair stands UP when you reach the peak of the vertical?


Free fall.


you don't know wtf you're talking about. The earth is accelrating upward at 9.8mph. Therefore there would be no freefall.
Title: Hey Thomas
Post by: Vauxhall the Vampire on February 17, 2007, 05:39:15 PM
Quote from: "TheEngineer"
For more information, see Einstein's Equivalence Principle.


 :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:
Title: Hey Thomas
Post by: Tom Bishop on February 17, 2007, 05:42:23 PM
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:lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:


Acceleration warps space-time in such a way that it creates a uniform gravitational field around the object accelerating

For more information see http://xxx.lanl.gov/ftp/physics/papers/0204/0204044.pdf

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However one of the main tenants of general relativity is the Principle of Equivalence: A uniform gravitational field is equivalent to a uniformly accelerating frame of reference. This implies that one can create a uniform gravitational field simply by changing one’s frame of reference from an inertial frame of reference to an accelerating frame, which is a rather difficult idea to accept.
Title: Hey Thomas
Post by: NarmaK on February 17, 2007, 05:50:57 PM
(http://i7.tinypic.com/2ilklfl.jpg)
Definition of smug.