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- From: Roger.Wilfong@umich.edu (Roger Wilfong)
- Subject: Re: Coverup - gravity doesn't exist?
- Message-ID: <19921106140324.Roger.Wilfong@umich.edu>
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- References: <BxAqKv.FMy.1@cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 18:03:00 GMT
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- In Article <BxAqKv.FMy.1@cs.cmu.edu> "roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts)" says:
- >
- > -From: pjs@euclid.JPL.NASA.GOV (Peter J. Scott)
- > -Subject: Re: NASA Coverup
- > -Date: 5 Nov 92 18:24:25 GMT
- > -Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA/Caltech
- >
- > -Ah, but have you personally verified Newton's Law of Gravitation? After
- > -all, who do you think started this whole conspiracy? Can any of us say
- > -that we really knew Isaac Newton?
- >
- > *I* haven't, but my roommate in college did. He was a pretty honest fellow,
- > so I expect he was telling the truth about the results.
- >
- > There's an apple tree on the NIST grounds that's a direct descendant of the
- > tree Isaac Newton was sitting under when he thought up the laws of gravitation.
- > I suppose we could set up a video camera and determine whether there's
- > anything unusual about the trajectory of the apples falling from that
- > particular tree. If they just float in midair or gently drift to the ground,
- > then there's reason to suspect that Isaac made the whole thing up.
- >
- > :-)
- >
-
- There's always Alway's Speculation on Physical Laws.
-
- "Until a physical law is discovered, compliance is not mandatory."
-
- It's kind of like "if a tree fell in the woods ...". As applied to gravity,
- Alway's Speculation is that before Newton, objects fell because they wanted
- too (but when no one was looking, they sometimes fell up) - after Newton,
- objects were required to fall under force of law (a force much greater than
- gravity).
- :-)
-