Freaky Thing About Gravity

[Benman]

Did you know that scientists have absolutely no idea about what causes gravity? None whatsover. I'm not making this up.

Sure, they can model what gravity does in a particular case, but not a clue about why. Does that strike anybody as odd?

It gets even better: scientists don't even have any plausible theories about the mechanism of how gravity operates. You'd think they'd say, "well, it might be a, b or c, but we just don't know yet." But they don't. They apparantly can't even dream up a theory about the mechanism of how gravity works. You probably think I'm joking but I'm not. Look it up.

[FortunaMaximus]

Before someone goes and Wikis it...

What's YOUR theory?

[Benman]

Don't have a clue. I wiki'd it and there isn't anything at all in there. What's strange is that encyclopedias seldom devote more than a line to the fact that nobody has a clue why gravity works. Kind of like they can't get their mind around the fact that something so important has no explanation.

[FortunaMaximus]

Well, can't help ya there. I just throw rocks.

[Bataglin]

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Kind of like they can't get their mind around the fact that something so important has no explanation.

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Here the other day I googled "Universe, explain", because... you know, I sort of wondered what's up with all that stuff.

They didn't know that either! [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

[John21]

They figured it out. They're just not telling anyone.

[madnak]

Science isn't about why things work, it's about how things work.

[surftheiop]

Why isnt anyone talking about bending spacetime? or has that theory gotten thrown out w/o me knowing it?

[Praxis101]

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Did you know that scientists have absolutely no idea about what causes gravity? None whatsover. I'm not making this up.

Sure, they can model what gravity does in a particular case, but not a clue about why. Does that strike anybody as odd?

It gets even better: scientists don't even have any plausible theories about the mechanism of how gravity operates. You'd think they'd say, "well, it might be a, b or c, but we just don't know yet." But they don't. They apparantly can't even dream up a theory about the mechanism of how gravity works. You probably think I'm joking but I'm not. Look it up.

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When did you assume that scientists knew how/why gravity works?

The only explinations we have, thusfar, are regarding the nature of gravity: what it seems to be like. Relativity was a massive breakthrough, and the answers to your questions will be the next, perhaps. The formulation of string theory depends on these answers currently, and I'm guessing it's the focus of a lot of effort.

[ianlippert]

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Science isn't about why things work, it's about how things work.

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There isnt anything that tells us 'why' things work.