Gravity info needed.

[Restola]

I stopped reading about halfway down, but what it comes down to is gravity doesnt stop working simply because an object is moving.

Otherwise my plane would weigh less and less the faster I went and I could "fly" off the earth

[Tom Sparkman]

The hunter and the monkey

I remember doing an experient in physics 30 years ago...

Metal plate 5 feet off the ground held by an electromagnet. Blowgun boresighted on the plate (and leveled) with the wires from the e-magnet at the muzzle. When a steel ball was blown out the tube, the circuit would be broken and the plate would fall. The ball would always impact the steel plate, sometimes right above the ground.

That demonstration seemed to drive it home for me.

Tom

[nippinout]

Isn't gravity merely our perception of what's really going on?

Mass bends time and space. The more dense an object is, the more it warps time and space.

An object falling towards the earth isn't this magical thing, but the masses acting on time and space.

Err... something like that. Anybody out there that really knows their physics? Not kinematics, but real physics.

My brain hurts.

[Restola]

Gravity is what lets the beer flow from the can to my mouth.

College physics that really matter

[Jason Reed]

hey dude you stole my sig,
i will kill you hehe
lol just kinding