Gravity proven false

Gravity Force, according to your Isaac Newton:
F = Gm₁m₂/r²

Therefore
Lim_r->0[Gm₁m₂/r²] = Inf

So If I walk over to my TV, and reduce the distance that separates us from 10m to 0m, the gravitational force will become infinite (assuming both me and my TV have a mass greater than 0). This is not the case. Even at a distance of 0m from my TV, I feel no force. In fact, the only force I feel is towards the earth, down. As if it were accelerating towards me.

Finally, some thought amongst the round-earthers?

You are right.

Gravity is heavily also bawsed on mass, which you seem to ahve forgotten. Earth would also hide any other gravitational pull within earths own force.

R never reaches zero due to the uncertainty principle.

Based*

The earth's gravity attracts both you and your television. This mass is much greater than both your masses combined and tripled. The force of gravity keeps the TV in place even when you get within 2 nanometers of it. Bring your TV to the interstellar medium outside the solar system and perform the same thing, and you will be attracted to each other.  This isn't feasible however. Narc gets an D for the intellegence of the question and a C+ for trying to act like he knows what he's talking about.

Amazing you've outwitted Newton and Einstien... Dingleberry your a genius.

r remains greater than 0 fuckstick. division of 0 comes out undefined. who says infinity?

Gravity Force, according to your Isaac Newton:
F = Gm₁m₂/r²

Therefore
Lim_r->0[Gm₁m₂/r²] = Inf

So If I walk over to my TV, and reduce the distance that separates us from 10m to 0m, the gravitational force will become infinite (assuming both me and my TV have a mass greater than 0). This is not the case. Even at a distance of 0m from my TV, I feel no force. In fact, the only force I feel is towards the earth, down. As if it were accelerating towards me.

In order to make r=0 in the sense given by the equation, you'd need to have compacted either the TV or yourself into a singularity. (Since r is the distance between the two centres of mass) And even then, you'd still be dealing with a finite r (Albeit on the scale of plank lengths)

Gravity Force, according to your Isaac Newton:
F = Gm₁m₂/r²

Therefore
Lim_r->0[Gm₁m₂/r²] = Inf

So If I walk over to my TV, and reduce the distance that separates us from 10m to 0m, the gravitational force will become infinite (assuming both me and my TV have a mass greater than 0). This is not the case. Even at a distance of 0m from my TV, I feel no force. In fact, the only force I feel is towards the earth, down. As if it were accelerating towards me.

you have just made a fundamental error dear foe... you forgot that this is only the equation used for long distance gravity, between two celestial bodies, as that was what it was intended for, now if want to disprove the existance of celestial bodies of significant mass, then don't use this equation.

Sorry for my ignorance but what is Gm₁m₂. I wasn't paying attention in class yesterday

In order to make r=0 in the sense given by the equation, you'd need to have compacted either the TV or yourself into a singularity. (Since r is the distance between the two centres of mass) And even then, you'd still be dealing with a finite r (Albeit on the scale of plank lengths)

This has been the only response worth reading so far.  I would point out, of course, that narcbery was not concerned with the state of things when r=0, but rather, the state of things as r approaches 0 (GroundControl's response partially covers this, since r is not allowed to arbitrarily approach 0).

narcberry: G, m1, and m2 in the case of you and the T.V. are very very small.  Use the radius of a T.V. for r and actually compute the resulting F, and you will find that as close as you can get to the T.V., the force of gravitational attraction between you and it will still be minuscule.

As a side note, every object has a Schwartzschild radius related to its mass, much like a black hole does.  What makes a black hole different from other objects is that its physical extent is smaller than its Schwartzschild radius.  The Schwartzschild radius of your television set is practically indistinguishable from zero; by the time you got to it, you would be well inside the T.V., and the gravitational field would have dropped off linearly and not, as you suggest, approached infinity.

If Gravity is proven false, then there's no such thing as your so-called Acceleration.

Quote from: GroundControl on April 05, 2007, 07:09:24 PM

In order to make r=0 in the sense given by the equation, you'd need to have compacted either the TV or yourself into a singularity. (Since r is the distance between the two centres of mass) And even then, you'd still be dealing with a finite r (Albeit on the scale of plank lengths)

This has been the only response worth reading so far.  I would point out, of course, that narcbery was not concerned with the state of things when r=0, but rather, the state of things as r approaches 0 (GroundControl's response partially covers this, since r is not allowed to arbitrarily approach 0).

narcberry: G, m1, and m2 in the case of you and the T.V. are very very small.  Use the radius of a T.V. for r and actually compute the resulting F, and you will find that as close as you can get to the T.V., the force of gravitational attraction between you and it will still be minuscule.

I should rephrase and speak only of the surface of my hand and the surface of my tv. Regardless, the uncertainty principle and significant figures both file this under, intentional ignorance. But only 3 of us understand that, so I'm sure there will be more idiotic explanations why there actually is gravity. And I look forward to that.

You can't actually 'touch' your TV, neither can you touch any other object in the sense of a zero distance between you. The reason you can press against its surface without passing through it is because the electrons that orbit the atoms in your hand and the TV are negatively charged, and when they get near each other the electromagnetic force (which is at that scale many many times stronger than gravity) causes the like charges to repel each other. Atoms are made of mostly space, so without this effect you would find it quite easy to walk through walls, but then of course your body and everything in the universe would fall apart also...Your gravity equation proof falls apart because of this very small, but nonetheless significant distance between all atoms in the universe.

Incidentally, where the electrons are not present to provide this useful service, or example in neutron stars, gravitational attraction is indeed almost infinite causing the star to collapse into an ultra dense ball a few kilometres across but containing the mass of an entire star. A pinhead of this material would weigh over 500,000 tonnes.

I should rephrase and speak only of the surface of my hand and the surface of my tv.

What do you mean by "surface"?  I think you cannot find any material objects that, in ordinary circumstances, can get arbitrarily close to one another.

Regardless, the uncertainty principle and significant figures both file this under, intentional ignorance. But only 3 of us understand that,

I'm obviously not one of them; that sentence is incoherent to me.

In order for you to be 0 distance from the television, you must be in the same position as the television.  You are extremely dimwitted.

In order for you to be 0 distance from the television, you must be in the same position as the television.  You are extremely dimwitted.

Yes he is, but don't let that influence your opinion of him.  He's a lot of fun.

I can't believe I read through the comments of this beyond stupid post.  Wow, this is a new low...

Gravity Force, according to your Isaac Newton:
F = Gm₁m₂/r²

Therefore
Lim_r->0[Gm₁m₂/r²] = Inf

So If I walk over to my TV, and reduce the distance that separates us from 10m to 0m, the gravitational force will become infinite (assuming both me and my TV have a mass greater than 0). This is not the case. Even at a distance of 0m from my TV, I feel no force. In fact, the only force I feel is towards the earth, down. As if it were accelerating towards me.

Q: "If the Earth was indeed a flat disc, wouldn't the whole planet crunch up into itself and eventually transform into a ball?"

A1: If the Earth generated a gravitational field, yes, it would eventually happen, after a billion years maybe. FE assumes that the Earth does not generate a gravitational field. Also, I'm not sure what FE's stance on the age of the world is, but it's plausible that it's a younger estimation than the RE claim. Um . . . if there is no gravitational field why  do i fall out of my computer chair when i lean to the right or left to much  Shocked ?  yeah do i have to say more?

There is no gravity, or gravitational field. The earth accelerates upwards, you fall down.

Quote from: narcberry on April 05, 2007, 04:31:28 PM

Gravity Force, according to your Isaac Newton:
F = Gm₁m₂/r²

Therefore
Lim_r->0[Gm₁m₂/r²] = Inf

So If I walk over to my TV, and reduce the distance that separates us from 10m to 0m, the gravitational force will become infinite (assuming both me and my TV have a mass greater than 0). This is not the case. Even at a distance of 0m from my TV, I feel no force. In fact, the only force I feel is towards the earth, down. As if it were accelerating towards me.

Q: "If the Earth was indeed a flat disc, wouldn't the whole planet crunch up into itself and eventually transform into a ball?"

A1: If the Earth generated a gravitational field, yes, it would eventually happen, after a billion years maybe. FE assumes that the Earth does not generate a gravitational field. Also, I'm not sure what FE's stance on the age of the world is, but it's plausible that it's a younger estimation than the RE claim. Um . . . if there is no gravitational field why  do i fall out of my computer chair when i lean to the right or left to much  Shocked ?  yeah do i have to say more?

Do you really think this hasn't been answered?  Ask yourself, "Would this be a frequently asked question?".  I think you know the answer.  Go to where the answers are, the FAQ.

There is no gravity, or gravitational field. The earth accelerates upwards, you fall down.

prove the earth is moving "up" i want to read this lol. oh and if the Earth is moving "up" would we run into the sun no? or at lest wouldn’t  the sun be gone for good.

Quote from: Knoll on April 10, 2007, 08:30:01 AM

Quote from: narcberry on April 05, 2007, 04:31:28 PM

Gravity Force, according to your Isaac Newton:
F = Gm₁m₂/r²

Therefore
Lim_r->0[Gm₁m₂/r²] = Inf

So If I walk over to my TV, and reduce the distance that separates us from 10m to 0m, the gravitational force will become infinite (assuming both me and my TV have a mass greater than 0). This is not the case. Even at a distance of 0m from my TV, I feel no force. In fact, the only force I feel is towards the earth, down. As if it were accelerating towards me.

Q: "If the Earth was indeed a flat disc, wouldn't the whole planet crunch up into itself and eventually transform into a ball?"

A1: If the Earth generated a gravitational field, yes, it would eventually happen, after a billion years maybe. FE assumes that the Earth does not generate a gravitational field. Also, I'm not sure what FE's stance on the age of the world is, but it's plausible that it's a younger estimation than the RE claim. Um . . . if there is no gravitational field why  do i fall out of my computer chair when i lean to the right or left to much  Shocked ?  yeah do i have to say more?

Do you really think this hasn't been answered?  Ask yourself, "Would this be a frequently asked question?".  I think you know the answer.  Go to where the answers are, the FAQ.

http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=12344.0 been there done that . . . gone over it  3 times and laughed the first 2.

One more thing if the earth is moving up to make "Gravity" on your earth why do things fall at different rates if its moving not force of mass/weight? everything would fall at the same rates no? 

One more thing if the earth is moving up to make "Gravity" on your earth why do things fall at different rates if its moving not force of mass/weight? everything would fall at the same rates no? 

What things, exactly?

Ok first of all things DO fall at the same rate....even with my basic physics knowledge I know that and have a way to prove it.  Secondly according to Tom's Universal Accelerator bullshit things with more mass would fall slower than things with less mass because he says that the UA affect is stronger on objects of higher mass so they would accelerate up, not as significantly as the earth however, but still slowing their fall.

Ok first of all things DO fall at the same rate....even with my basic physics knowledge I know that and have a way to prove it.  Secondly according to Tom's Universal Accelerator bullshit things with more mass would fall slower than things with less mass because he says that the UA affect is stronger on objects of higher mass so they would accelerate up, not as significantly as the earth however, but still slowing their fall.

thank you . . . said what i was trying to say.