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Whoa! Boy this explains a lot!
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The laws of gravity that are identifiable on this planet are not as easily identifiable on others. Our gravity is not identical to that of the moon.
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Move over Einstein! Irisheyes is going to rewrite General Relativity! I am humble in your presence. I would be pleased to set up a conference call between you and Steven Hawkings so you can set him straight on this!
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What would I do without you keeping me in line? Thanks for bringing me back to earth, must have been too much blood in my coffee stream today.
No, I don't even pretend to be on the same level with Einstein or Hawkings. Actually, I was paraphrasing a discussion with one of my kids, but I left out a rather vital phrase...
While discussing gravity last week, I was asked if gravity was invented, or if it had always existed, and if it is the same everywhere. My example was something like (this is incredibly simplified and paraphrased!) "500 years ago, if you were on the moon, and if you threw a ball into the air and it didn't come back down to the surface of the moon, does that mean that gravity didn't exist?" And my daughter totally got it! She understood that just because it didn't have a name, and the location was different, the theory still applied. I couldn't verify it by watching something fall back to the surface there, but the theory was still valid. Geez, I'm still not sure that I'm explaining it right. It makes so much more sense when I'm talking to my kids!
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I'll tell you where I often wind up with chocolate other than my fingers (and it's NOT my elbows). Your welcome to lick it all off!
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Oh, Freethinker...promises, promises...!
