What if...
Gravity n.
The natural force of attraction exerted by a celestial body, such as Earth, upon objects at or near its surface, tending to draw them toward the center of the body.
Sounds simple enough, right? Large objects in space have a pull that draws smaller objects toward them. This is something that we have accepted as fact since Sir Isaac Newton got beaned by an apple. But what if we were wrong? What if we have been believing a mistake these past 300 years? I mean, think about it, large objects pulling toward them really makes no sense at all. What if instead of gravity being a pull, it was a push.
Think of space. There isn't much out there, mostly nothingness. This nothingness is called Black Matter. I know that it isn't really a solid, but that's what they call it anyway. Now...they say that the universe is infinite. Even though there isn't anything there, that is a whole lotta nothing, that much nothing has to have some sort of force to it. And since infinity has no edges it is an equal force pushing from all sides. Now say that I am floating around in deep space, like I do, and I come within a reasonable distance of a large object which would most likely be a planet. This planet is blocking some of this force that is being pushed on me from that particular direction so I start moving toward the planet, and as I get closer to the planet the less force is getting to me from around the planet(think of a breeze around a house) so I am being pushed on harder from the opposite direction until I land on the planet. Since I am now in the planet's atmosphere I have little to no force pushing on me from the other side of the planet to help me leave, I am grounded.
It may just be me...but that makes a whole hell of a lot more sense than some mystery pull pulling me toward my giant rock. Think about it.
The natural force of attraction exerted by a celestial body, such as Earth, upon objects at or near its surface, tending to draw them toward the center of the body.
Sounds simple enough, right? Large objects in space have a pull that draws smaller objects toward them. This is something that we have accepted as fact since Sir Isaac Newton got beaned by an apple. But what if we were wrong? What if we have been believing a mistake these past 300 years? I mean, think about it, large objects pulling toward them really makes no sense at all. What if instead of gravity being a pull, it was a push.
Think of space. There isn't much out there, mostly nothingness. This nothingness is called Black Matter. I know that it isn't really a solid, but that's what they call it anyway. Now...they say that the universe is infinite. Even though there isn't anything there, that is a whole lotta nothing, that much nothing has to have some sort of force to it. And since infinity has no edges it is an equal force pushing from all sides. Now say that I am floating around in deep space, like I do, and I come within a reasonable distance of a large object which would most likely be a planet. This planet is blocking some of this force that is being pushed on me from that particular direction so I start moving toward the planet, and as I get closer to the planet the less force is getting to me from around the planet(think of a breeze around a house) so I am being pushed on harder from the opposite direction until I land on the planet. Since I am now in the planet's atmosphere I have little to no force pushing on me from the other side of the planet to help me leave, I am grounded.
It may just be me...but that makes a whole hell of a lot more sense than some mystery pull pulling me toward my giant rock. Think about it.