15 May 11
Originally posted by AgergDon't need science to prove it.
Day in day out there's always someone droning on about the theory of gravity. But so what!??
[b]It's only a theory! Perhaps the next time you fall over you'll float off into the sky, science can't prove 100% this won't happen![/b]
It's a fact. Jump off a cliff and you're going to fall.
15 May 11
Originally posted by AgergThe very idea that one would not fall if one jumped out of an airplane, anywhere, at any time, is an idea born of relativism.
How do you know? have you ever jumped off a cliff before? Have you jumped off all cliffs to check that some of them aren't special? 😕
That idea belies modern thought, which has eroded from its basis in reality.
A reality that has been undercut by mysticism and science fiction.
Can you understand Agerg?
15 May 11
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Originally posted by josephwSo you haven't jumped off a cliff before then; and so you don't actually know whether you'd fall or not!
The very idea that one would not fall if one jumped out of an airplane, anywhere, at any time, is an idea born of relativism.
That idea belies modern thought, which has eroded from its basis in reality.
A reality that has been undercut by mysticism and science fiction.
Can you understand Agerg?
Indeed you haven't got any evidence that for some cliff *you* might jump off in the future, you'd fall.
Science hasn't proven you will always fall if you jump off cliffs because
Gravity is just a theory!
nothing more; and as a theory it could equally well be replaced tomorrow by the theory of invisible elastic.
15 May 11
Originally posted by josephwAnd I'll say it again, this 'fact' is science.
It is a fact that if one jumps off a cliff they will fall.
Don't need science to prove that.
You start with a question - what will happen if someone jumps off a cliff?
You test it - throw someone off.
You get a result - they fall.
You can test it again - throw someone else off.
And again, and again and again ....
You're building a phenomenon here that it would be good to explain - perhaps it's only people that fall? You throw other objects and they too fall. Perhaps it only happens during the day? You try at other times, same result. And so on and on ...
Eventually you come to realise that this will happen every time, and in every different permutation.
15 May 11
Originally posted by amannionSo when did 'science' discover this fact?
And I'll say it again, this 'fact' is science.
You start with a question - what will happen if someone jumps off a cliff?
You test it - throw someone off.
You get a result - they fall.
You can test it again - throw someone else off.
And again, and again and again ....
You're building a phenomenon here that it would be good to explain - perhaps it's ...[text shortened]... y you come to realise that this will happen every time, and in every different permutation.
ROFLMAO
16 May 11
Originally posted by Agergits not a theory its a law: http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/history/newtongrav.html
Day in day out there's always someone droning on about the theory of gravity. But so what!??
[b]It's only a theory! Perhaps the next time you fall over you'll float off into the sky, science can't prove 100% this won't happen![/b]
16 May 11
Originally posted by josephwScience isn't a person.
So when did 'science' discover this fact?
ROFLMAO
Science doesn't 'do' anything.
Science is a process, an approach to understanding the world.
We do it.
Every day, we do it.
When my kid goes for a ride on his bike, he's doing it.
When you drive your car, you're doing it.
16 May 11
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Originally posted by DowardMathematics only "proves it" for a phenomenon strictly fitting a particular mathematical model - no one has proved that gravity *is* such a phenomenon - there may well be special cases, like for example, wearing red jumper and jumping off a cliff whilst on a pogo stick singing 13 green bottles for which it fails.
its a law because its mathematically provable
16 May 11
Originally posted by AgergYes several times as we go driving into the water, we always fall down into the
How do you know? have you ever jumped off a cliff before? Have you jumped off all cliffs to check that some of them aren't special? 😕
water. I have yet gone up and kept going. 🙂
Kelly