"Anyone got anything other than the stupid Cavendish experiment?"
what do you seek the experiment to show?
i guess im still having a hard time understanding how somebody hasn't noticed things that are thrown up into the air, don't come back down.
notice, the things on your desk are not randomly floating into the air.
notice, when you jump, you return to earth. or when a cat jumps it comes back down again. or a football in flight, comes back down again.
these are all phenomenons that we have a label for
we call it gravity
that does not mean we know why
are you trying to find out why. or are you denying that things that go up, must come down?
I want to see something move not up/down here on earth because of gravity alone.
stop using "gravity" like a verb
gravity is not the thing doing the doing.
gravity is just what we call the observation of it happening.
think of like this.
a jet flies over your head and it breaks the sound barrier
you see it go by and shortly after you hear a sonic boom
the sonic boom is just the name we give the phenomenon
you would never say "i dont believe in sonic boom" or you would not say "show me how that works without sonic boom alone"
see how nouns don't wok in that sentence? it's because you are applying gravity to mean something it isn't
gravity is just the sonic boom of the ball coming back down again.
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