Facts to blow your mind

[meauneau]

And you're still doing it.

I said come back when you have something of substance. Instead you come back with even more empty rhetoric.

 

[ralphc1]

Gravity make be the weakest of the 4 fundamental forces, but:

- It has the longest reach of the four (basically infinite)
- It's the dominant force in shaping the galaxy on the macro scale
and
- Its the least understood

On his podcast, a listener asked Neil D Tyson what Gravity was and how it works. His short answer - No one really knows for certain, they can only explain it's effects and how to predict it. He then went on a technical explanation to attempt to describe how/why they think it works in layman terms and it still hurt my brain trying to understand it.

It's effect on how time passes still blows my mind. Clocks have to be slightly adjusted at the ISS because difference in gravity.

Gravity is awesome

Is it because of gravity or the speed that the space station is traveling?

 

[ralphc1]

You can't pinch your nose and hum

I just did.

 

[n...not crazy]

Is it because of gravity or the speed that the space station is traveling?

More speed in orbit, this slows time down but hardly at all. The speed is close to zero when you consider the equations. 3 km/s, squared, divided by 300,000 km/s, squared. So factor in the number 9/90 billion, and this isn't much to affect things.

But the gravity is quite a bit less, so the clock will speed up.

Ammiright?

There's my armchair analysis.

 

[DM1982]

Holy shit ...

And it literally 'blows your mind'; think about it, all that blocked air pressure going up into the skull cavity......

 

[HunterSdVa29]

Lesotho, inside South Africa, is the only country completely contained w/in the landmass of another

 

[My name is]

I just did.

You have a deviated septum?