Scepti, what if there was a big globe that attracted matter towards it's surface, resulting in a person being right-side-up at any give spot anywhere on it's surface, how would a person expect to feel as though they were underneath this globe if they traveled to a region opposite from where they originated?
Then I would have to re-evaluate my thinking. My first thought would be " how could I not be crushed into a ball by this gravity when it attracts the oceans and stops them falling off.
I'd also be curius about the so called poles not spinning and wondering how this force works very similar to the equator, etc.
Well, that's a start. Are you wondering why gravitational attraction of the particles that make up your own body wouldn't force it to a spherical shape, or why the attraction between your body and the Earth wouldn't crush you into a puddle (it wouldn't be a "ball")? The answer to either is, simply, that the strength of the forces aren't enough to do so. The mutual gravitational attraction of your own mass is minuscule compared to the mass required to overcome the shear strength of the bones and other tissue you're made of. Your bones are strong enough that you can stand up and support your body's weight, regardless if this weight is due to gravity or an upward acceleration of the Earth itself (or something else). I'm not sure what the oceans have to do with this - they're really, really massive, so the force to hold them to the Earth must be super-duper strong? If that's it, well the force acting on large masses (like the ocean) is strong
because they're massive. The force acting on a small mass is small - in fact, they're proportional, and the constant of proportionality is acceleration. F = MA and all that.
Why do you think the poles wouldn't be spinning? That's what
defines the poles, and if you were at one of the poles at night, you could see the stars appear to slowly circle a point directly overhead; in the day, the Sun would appear to circle at a constant elevation above the horizon. "how this force works very similar to the equator" doesn't make any sense - the Equator isn't a force - it's the locus of points at the surface equidistant to both poles (i.e. a circle) - but if you mean why aren't we flung off since the centrifugal force at the Equator is greatest, then the answer is that it does counteract gravity, but by only a small fraction of a percent.
Neither of these concerns is a problem.