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Physics Primer: What's the cause of force?

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Physics Primer: What's the cause of force?

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Check out this awesome video on physics!

In the absence of God, I found Man.
-Guillermo Del Torro

Are you pushing your own short comings on us and safely hating them from a distance?

Is this the virtue of faith? To never change your mind: especially when you should?

Young Earth Creationists take offense at the idea that we have a common heritage with other animals. Why is being the descendant of a mud golem any better?
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Re: Physics Primer: What's the cause of force?

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Whats the cause of force?
Do you claim to know?

Science is starting to hypothesize a new force.

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/20 ... .html#more

Gravity is one of our greatest mysteries.
It is now thought to be responsible for the expansion of the universe.

But wait a second! A new and exciting hypothesis I posted a link to in another thread indicated that the expansion of the universe might be an illusion!

I said a while back when I first started that gravity is not well understood. And anyone who claims it is does not know the deeper problems with our understanding of the basics.
And I was mocked for it by certain knowledge snobs around here.

Being admittedly stupid, I just happen to exercise more humility than the intellectuals high above me.

Our understanding is local, not universal.
The " great truths of science" govern our neighborhood and perhaps no further than that.

Welcome to ignorance.
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I think the universe is one big holographic image projected from another universe in the 12 dimension.
But the projector in the 12th dimension may or may not have an intelligent agent running the projector because we here in this dimension do not believe in the god Odin because brains are the only intelligence there is.

The 12th dimension came into existence by a happy and dumb coincidence.
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Wish I had access to that guy's voice and drawing accelerators! :bounce:
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ant wrote:I said a while back when I first started that gravity is not well understood. And anyone who claims it is does not know the deeper problems with our understanding of the basics.
What makes you say gravity isn't well understood? I know, we can't explain what causes it. But that doesn't prevent us from calculating exceptionally precise trajectories around distant gravitational objects. Or calculating the exact escape velocities for distant plants. Or plotting the orbits of bodies and movements of entire solar systems based on how gravity functions.

For all those examples, what benefit would be gained by understanding what causes gravity? Would it make our predicted trajectories even more precise? Would it change anything about how gravity actually works? I think gravity could be well understood, at the same time that we're missing a vital link. Or perhaps you're right, and when we finally understand what causes gravity, that will allow us to manipulate it. The breakthrough could lead to devices that cause localized fields of artificial gravity, with the potential to shift every planet in our solar system into an h-congruous orbit for habitation.

Either way, I don't think we can make a claim regarding how well we understand it. Perhaps all we're missing is a single link that will do nothing to our ability to manipulate gravity. It will simply help us to explain the cause, an exercise for the classroom and not otherwise practical. Or perhaps that single link will open up a universe of possibilities. It is an unknown unknown in what it may allow.
Being admittedly stupid, I just happen to exercise more humility than the intellectuals high above me.
That sounds like the opposite of intellectual humility. Understanding the status of our knowledge isn't as easy as you're making it out to be.
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.” - Douglas Adams
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Interbane,

I know some people are still hung up on gravity being as fundamental as that apple that fell on Newton's head long ago, and we've been patting ourselves on the back ever since.

Here is an article that references a study that hypothesizes our fundamental understanding is wrong.

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/20 ... .html#more

Its fun stuff and should keep some of us from saying we understand most everything about something that has long been thought to be well understood.
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