Not the in Newton’s original equation, added later I believe by someone else. Easier to remember gravity without including it - my excuse anyway
Reminds my of my favourite poster in Leisure Lakes Mountain bike shop in Nottingham back in the mid 90’s.
My (rudimentary) physics A level tells me that all objects with a mass attract one another, proportional to their mass. Therefore, the earth’s gravity attracts me, as I attract the earth; proportionately. We all have a mass and a gravitational pull. Tonight my bottle of Jack Daniels seems to be batting above its mass.
Isaac had lovely hair. If L’Oreal had been around in the 1600s, he would’ve been on their ads, because he’s worth it.
Surely you have used the wrong picture. Isn't the world flat? I know the gravity of this question but correct illustrations would be helpful
But your ignoring poor old Einstein who had great hair and also explained gravity a little bit! Best description I know of his explanation of gravity as bending space rather than a force of attraction is to imagine a sheet of rubber representing space with a heavy weight in the middle. The weight bends the sheet and so objects fall towards the weight. Simples really Alternatively, we could just go with the flow and stick with Terry's version
What about Gravitational Waves ? and the 2017 Nobel prize for Physics award for discovery of Gravitational Waves, previously predicted by Einstein.
If you observe couples leaving any McDonalds you will note that principle applies to humans as well.......
It’s a nice image, bit like wind surfing on the solar wind, but he’s surfing backwards away from the beach....
It's all relative though. In any case, those gravitational waves are radiating out from the rotating pulsars in the centre.
That's what I thought until I saw your cartoon. Gravity attracts, so wouldn't any waves be pulled in towards the pulsars?
I rather like the idea of quantum foams and space-time being, at the scale of 1.6x10^-35 m, discrete points in a lattice. (Don't know how to do superscripts here) Anyway, I can't do the maths but I do understand a bit about stuff looking like a continuum at one length scale and but being discretised at much smaller scales. One of the dinky things about quantum foam is that time can go backwards or stand still at some points as long as that is balanced out elsewhere. At the other end of the length scale, what if our universe was just a space-time transient in a foam of universes, a sort of bubble in the jacuzzi of the gods?