Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: anti-gravity? [OT] Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2024 17:30:39 +0100 Organization: Poppy Records Lines: 46 Message-ID: <1qsff0p.1yn91wsteto8wN%liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> References: <1qsepmy.1igbph81ebujn0N%liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net DqE9GzOFGJaZAeI2HRinMwToDmf/OZgBtQklkra6H8/sY+duCD X-Orig-Path: liz Cancel-Lock: sha1:vgM7pcFJnE6VsiooiMUDcoZBLxE= sha256:oG2RF5xMfJBpnthc5WRSurJEwmlxQr3fAXx/D60ek8M= User-Agent: MacSOUP/2.4.6 Bytes: 2755 Phil Hobbs wrote: > Liz Tuddenham wrote: > > jim whitby wrote: > > > >> Looking for opinion of persons better educatrd than myself. > >> > >> >> that-physics-says-shouldnt-work-just-produced-enough-thrust-to-defeat- > >> earths-gravity/> > > > > Has anyone come across the alternative theory of gravity which I first > > heard of from P.G.A.H. Voigt? > > > > It suggests that the current theory of gravity is rather like the idea > > we used to have that there was force 'due to vacuum', rather than air > > pressure. It proposes that the real cause of the gravitational effects > > we observe is not an attraction but a pressure. > > > > The concept is that a force acts on all bodies equally in all dirctions. > > When two bodies with mass approach each other, each shields the other > > from some of this force and the remaining forces propel the bodies > > towards each other. > > > > I don't know how it would be possible to test whether this was in fact > > how 'gravity' worked and whether it was possible to differentiate it > > from the current theory, as the two would appear to have identical > > observed effects. > > > > > > Of course little things like the equality of inertial and gravitational > mass (so that objects of different density fall at the same speed) don’t > fit easily into such a picture. If you postulate that the forces interact with mass rather than area or volume, that is easily explained. Why do we assume that gravity is a pull based on mass, when it could equally well be a push based on mass? -- ~ Liz Tuddenham ~ (Remove the ".invalid"s and add ".co.uk" to reply) www.poppyrecords.co.uk