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Newton was 99.99% right.
alcaray —
11/30/2012 3:46:45 AM
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Why black holes don't suck.
- ER -
11/28/2012 2:01:49 AM
A 10 y/o plays football against the 49ers.
- bowser -
11/30/2012 8:52:58 PM
That's relativity.
- alcaray -
12/1/2012 4:36:57 AM
Your argument is valid, except for the fact that
- johannes -
11/28/2012 6:27:55 PM
Use or misuse of a word tells us nothing about what the word allegedly describes.
- ER -
11/29/2012 12:23:20 AM
Obsession about definitions?
- johannes -
11/29/2012 7:44:27 PM
Black Hole is a term coined by astronomers.
- ER -
11/29/2012 11:50:29 PM
You wrote that
- johannes -
11/30/2012 2:43:57 AM
Newton was 99.99% right.
- alcaray -
11/30/2012 3:46:45 AM
:)
- TB -
11/30/2012 3:07:48 AM
It is interesting how an honest dialogue often turns towards the absurd.
- johannes -
11/30/2012 7:46:46 PM
People saying absurd things will do that.
- alcaray -
11/30/2012 8:30:50 PM
Tell me about it.
- TB -
11/30/2012 8:20:28 PM
The galaxy is expanding? I don't think so.
- alcaray -
11/28/2012 7:31:25 PM
My reasoning is that
- johannes -
11/28/2012 9:21:40 PM
Objects that close are both red-shifted and blue-shifted...
- alcaray -
11/29/2012 6:43:45 AM
But stars and galaxies of stars were formed by gravity? Tthey formed by contraction. I
- RobVG -
11/28/2012 11:49:39 PM
Contraction, explosion, expansion. Perhaps.
- johannes -
11/29/2012 7:50:56 PM
Why not use your reasoning, instead,
- ER -
11/28/2012 11:28:26 PM
The concept of an experimental proof is very simple.
- johannes -
11/29/2012 7:41:53 PM
No, Johannes.
- ER -
11/29/2012 8:10:59 PM
Hmm, interesting
- johannes -
11/29/2012 10:00:27 PM
Why make things so complicated?
- alcaray -
11/29/2012 11:51:36 PM
The calculations?
- johannes -
11/30/2012 2:53:49 AM
The calculations do not need to explain any theory to any layman.
- alcaray -
11/30/2012 3:49:47 AM
You are assuming that it is the “mass” that causes the gravitational field.
- johannes -
11/30/2012 7:46:02 PM
No I am not.
- alcaray -
11/30/2012 8:35:11 PM
OK now that you read about it.
- johannes -
12/1/2012 3:39:06 AM
I was hoping you would read about it.
- alcaray -
12/1/2012 4:11:50 AM
I read it but did not get the an answer to my question.
- johannes -
12/1/2012 4:53:09 AM
Your shields are impervious. I yield.
- alcaray -
12/2/2012 12:35:45 AM
Re: Your shields are impervious. I yield.
- Jody -
12/2/2012 2:33:40 AM
The shortest possible answer...
- TB -
12/1/2012 4:06:24 AM
You have a good question.
- johannes -
12/1/2012 4:54:54 AM
Correction
- johannes -
11/29/2012 10:01:21 PM
Well done, 4.0, except they do seem to suck, a lot, and blow, a little.
- bowser -
11/28/2012 6:21:11 AM
That's true, but...
- ER -
11/28/2012 11:49:18 AM
Excellent, thanks n/t
- RobVG -
11/28/2012 4:34:58 AM
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