by allynh » Mon Dec 07, 2020 5:53 pm
Crawler is right, and Higgsy is wrong.
- Why didn't I see that 50 years ago in high school?
- 50 years! Where has the time gone.
Plus, the implications that we are standing on the Earth, in a gravitational field, under constant acceleration, and not gaining mass, is profoundly disturbing.
What is gravity then, if not acceleration.
Then when you are in orbit around the Earth, in "Free fall", you are not having to keep accelerating to stay in orbit against that gravity field.
None of that ever occurred to me. Yikes!
- What else am I missing?
Thanks for pointing that out.
Crawler is right, and Higgsy is wrong.
- Why didn't I see that 50 years ago in high school?
- 50 years! Where has the time gone.
Plus, the implications that we are standing on the Earth, in a gravitational field, under constant acceleration, and not gaining mass, is profoundly disturbing.
What is gravity then, if not acceleration.
Then when you are in orbit around the Earth, in "Free fall", you are not having to keep accelerating to stay in orbit against that gravity field.
None of that ever occurred to me. Yikes!
- What else am I missing?
Thanks for pointing that out.