They simply tell us that gravity does this and that.......not what it is as a force and why mass attracts mass only when the situation suits.
Why does anybody need to understand how gravity works to know what it does?
Do you understand gravity?
If so, tell me about it. What is it?
That is like saying you need to understand how a car works in order to drive one.
If you were told there were thousands of little mice in the engine, would you accept that?
If you wouldn't, then tell me why you wouldn't?
As everyday experience tells us, clearly you don't. Name me any piece of equipment that is commonly used in life which we need to know how it works in order to use it.
How about you tell me how you use gravity in your everyday life and explain how you know its a reality?
Books tell us that any object with mass attracts any other object with mass and they tell us how to calculate the size of the force that exists between them.
Books?
Books can tell all kinds of stories and any story can be passed off as factual for the reader. How are you to know what the reality is?
If you then go on to measure that force (where practicable) you will find it is correct. Is that what you mean by being 'indoctrinated'? Being told what the force will be between two objects and then being able to confirm it by measurement? That happens a lot in science, you should try it sometime.
Tell me how you measure this force to know what it is?
What more do you need to know than that?
The proof and truth, that's what.
Did you not like my photos? You accepted my invitation to post a couple pretty quickly but you haven't made any comment about them since.
I did, Mr impatient.
When scientists consider alternate theories or models, they do not eliminate any until sufficient evidence has been clearly presented that favours one over the others. Science is about process of elimination.
Science is reality and the issue for the seeker is in finding that reality. Only then can you really be called a factual scientist.
Until then it's all theoretical, which means, no real proof in terms of what we're arguing.
Your version of 'alternate thinking' is to cast aside as irrelevant and wrong anything which doesn't conform with your beliefs straightaway.
No. It's to question and not simply accept as a truth, something which has no direct proof.
So for you it's Sceptimatics model or no model.
Nobody is told to go with my model. They're your words, not mine.
Where is the science in that?
There is none. It's simply looking for the truth of science. We can all claim to be scientists. I'm more than happy to say, we're all scientists, looking for the scientific truth's.
The reality is, we're mostly theoretical.
If your globe spins at the speeds that's said and the globe fattens out towards the equator because of this...as we're told, then don't you think the water in the seas would be compromised?
Compromised... how exactly? What do you think it is going to do, fly off into space or something? Ahh so that is why the media are always telling us there is a water shortage!
How about you explain this video.
You argue for one rotation of a ball as being so slow as to not spill anything....and yet here's your mate, Neil telling everyone how the rotation distorts the globe you believe you live on.
You people need to make your mind's up.