Warning: Gravity is “Only a Theory”

[Nick Shogun]

I now offer undeniable proof that gravity DOES NOT EXIST.

(the secularists like to use confusing language)

The US Patent Office has never issued a patent for anti-gravity. Why is this?

It is far more likely that tides were given us by an Intelligent Creator long ago and they have been with us ever since. <p><div style="text-align:center">

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[Capntastic]

Yes, because something being a theory (Which Gravity isn't) means it doesn't exist (Which it does, either way.)

SMOOTH MOVE, LOSER.

[Besyanteo]

I lost interested when the author claimed universal gravity can't exist because the moon rotates around the earth instead of the sun. It's either satire, or stupidity.

I'm kinda too tired to care right now though. :{ Onoes, party poop.

Edit: Also, techincally Gravity is a thoery. Most things in science are theory. However, the likelyhood of our finding a better explanation is reasonable minute. Hence, we feel safe calling these theories "facts".

I am reasonably certain that, based on the accounts and information provided by other people, that I was born from my mother's womb. However, I can't prove it. So that is, in the same spirit, a thoery. Until someone proves that it is in fact more likely that I was grown in a test tube to pwoer them atrix, I can continue believing this and state it to be a "fact". :o

And I'm still tired. But I'm also watching a 4 year old. So eh. <p>

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[Capntastic]

It's clearly parody, but being parody does not automagically make something funny :(

[Besyanteo]

Zero has the right of it, I think. <p>

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[Idran1701]

Bes is pretty much right, but for further clarification, there is a theory of gravity and there is a law of gravity. The law of gravity describes what gravity is. The theory of gravity describes how gravity works. This usage of law and theory is entirely how such terms are defined in the hard sciences. Law = definition, theory = explanation, and the word theory has no connotations in science as to how "proven" something is or not. <p>

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[Archmage144]

Yeah, Idran has the right of it. There are, notably, very few laws in science--gravity and the three laws of thermodynamics are pretty much it, as far as I can think.

Lots of things that are commonly accepted as facts, naturally, are scientifically noted as theories. Our entire model for how chemicals interact with one another is a theory, for example. Most of science is a construction intended to represent the way we think something works. <p>

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[Capntastic]

AM has the right of it. And now it's someone else's turn!

[Spleen]

Zero's obviously correct. <p>-_-___-___-___-_-

"The universe is all in the mind that perceives it, and sensation is the first and only reality. If a tree falls in the forest with no creature to hear it, then there is no tree."
-Dungeons and Dragons: Complete Arcane, page 167

"I don't know who's a bigger fool: Him for going, you for following, or me for not leaving you both."
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[Ganonfro]

SPLEEN IS WRONG, THUS VOIDING EVERYONES RESPONSES TO THIS POINT.

[Besyanteo]

And now, for something completely different:

This thread is now gay for you! HARD GAY! <p>

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[Deeum]

Ganon and Bes have the right of it. <p><div style="text-align:center">

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[Zemyla]

The only thing that might save that page is the picture of Einstein writing "LOL" on the chalkboard. And even that's iffy. <p>-----
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[PriamNevhausten]

I do rather like that image. <p><span style="font-size:xx-small;">"It's in the air, in the headlines in the newspapers, in the blurry images on television. It is a secret you have yet to grasp, although the first syllable has been spoken in a dream you cannot quite recall." --Unknown Armies</span></p>

[SALSAlys]

As do I.

[Besyanteo]

Zem wins a cookie, yes. <p>

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[E Mouse]

Actually, I wouldn't put it past the mop-head.

He was always kinda crazy. <p>

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<span style="font-size:xx-small;">"Their rhetoric... You didn't put communists in his bed did you!" came Amber's indignant reply.

"Why not? All I had to do was open a gate to his bed and stick up a sign saying 'Hot virgin willing to make the ultimate sacrifice in the name of international socialist fraternity.'"</span>

<span style="color:blue;font-size:xx-small;">Excaliburned:</span> <span style="font-size:xx-small;">Ah yes, I'm thinking of having the USS Bob be preserved outside the Arena as a monument of sorts</span></p>

[The Great Nevareh]

Gravity IS only a theory. It's a term used to identify a phenomenon that is common enough to merit jargon. The laws and theories about Gravity are speculations based upon predicting its behavior- the most durable and most accepted parts of the entire theory-group don't really say ANYTHING about what Gravity IS, just how it WORKS. Trying to refute that and ignoring the math behind it is kind of self-defeating. It's attacking an idea on grounds that it doesn't cover.

Intelligent Designers are being silly when they fight science since it is so much easier to say "It's like this because that's how it's set up by (Insert Divine Authority)- it has been set up to follow these laws and the like which we delineate and discover with continuing scientific progress. The more we delve into (Insert Divine Authority)'s mysteries, the more we see how complex and beautiful the universe is." As opposed to saying "Nuh-uh! There are no laws of physics!"

Other scientific laws- Conservation laws (Mass, Energy, Momentum, et cetera).

Intelligent Design would be so much more VIABLE if they took science and used it as opposed to fighting science's basis, using sicnece as proof of their own belief system as opposed to pulling out the bible and saying "this says you're wrong." <p>[---------------------------]
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