INeedMana@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 months agoTIL Gravity is not about mass pulling other mass. It's mass bending time spacetime that makes other mass get closerwww.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square71fedilinkarrow-up1355arrow-down115
arrow-up1340arrow-down1external-linkTIL Gravity is not about mass pulling other mass. It's mass bending time spacetime that makes other mass get closerwww.youtube.comINeedMana@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 months agomessage-square71fedilink
minus-squaretacosplease@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down4·2 months agoI once came across information that said natural forces never pull. They only push. If that’s true then magnetism and gravity are even more confusing than I had initially estimated.
minus-squareCrayonRosary@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 months ago I once came across information that said natural forces never pull That’s absolute nonsense. Discard that thought and never repeat it again.
minus-squarefeedum_sneedson@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·2 months agoI’m not following the logic.
minus-squaretacosplease@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down4·2 months agoMassive things cause gravity. We experience this, of course, as the earth pulling us in towards its center of mass. But if gravity pushes, then what is it that is getting on the other side of me and pushing me towards the earth? Where is the physical origin of that pushing force? How does it know to get on the far side of me and push me “down” toward the giant mass that is the earth? None of it makes sense to me. I hope it’s true and things are just that weird.
I once came across information that said natural forces never pull. They only push. If that’s true then magnetism and gravity are even more confusing than I had initially estimated.
That’s absolute nonsense. Discard that thought and never repeat it again.
I’m not following the logic.
Massive things cause gravity. We experience this, of course, as the earth pulling us in towards its center of mass.
But if gravity pushes, then what is it that is getting on the other side of me and pushing me towards the earth?
Where is the physical origin of that pushing force?
How does it know to get on the far side of me and push me “down” toward the giant mass that is the earth?
None of it makes sense to me. I hope it’s true and things are just that weird.