Isn't it about time we understood the nature of gravity?
Isn't it about time we understood the nature of gravity?
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RegMolehusband

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4,088 posts

279 months

Wednesday 28th January 2009
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If we're so clever how come we don't understand why large bodies have a gravitational pull? If we could understand the nature of gravity then we could develop anti-gravity materials and we wouldn't need huge rockets to launch us into space and aircraft would waft silently along Just like our alien visitors do all the time.

Just a thought.

Holst

2,468 posts

243 months

Wednesday 28th January 2009
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Is your name really Molehusband Reg?

navier_stokes

948 posts

221 months

Wednesday 28th January 2009
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RegMolehusband said:
If we're so clever how come we don't understand why large bodies have a gravitational pull? If we could understand the nature of gravity then we could develop anti-gravity materials and we wouldn't need huge rockets to launch us into space and aircraft would waft silently along Just like our alien visitors do all the time.

Just a thought.
Easier said than done eh? :P

RegMolehusband

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4,088 posts

279 months

Wednesday 28th January 2009
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Nope - you don't remember the public information adverts then?

It's not Reg either, I mean, there can't be any PHers called Reginald can there? smile

Edited by RegMolehusband on Wednesday 28th January 19:25

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

277 months

A4_Family_Man

420 posts

231 months

Wednesday 28th January 2009
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A working unified field theory would help our understanding of gravity and it's relation to other objects and, of well, everything else..

2 sMoKiN bArReLs

31,659 posts

257 months

Wednesday 28th January 2009
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scratchchin I've pulled a few large bodies over the years hehe

A4_Family_Man

420 posts

231 months

Wednesday 28th January 2009
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2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:
scratchchin I've pulled a few large bodies over the years hehe
and gravity had taken it's toll on them wink

robinhood21

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254 months

Wednesday 28th January 2009
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RegMolehusband

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279 months

Wednesday 28th January 2009
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Well that fizzled out while I was in the bath didn't it! It just seems to me that we're incredibly backwards having to explode ourselves through the air or pull ourselves along using a corkscrew type device - and as for helicopters, Christ Almighty!

On the other had in times to come, when rockets, propellers and MMGW have become of quaint historical interest, we'll just have to open some shutters underneath our craft and up we'll silently rise. You wait and see....


ultegra

525 posts

228 months

Wednesday 28th January 2009
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The STofR states that gravity is not an instantaneous force. Discuss.

TWSTEEL

1,099 posts

211 months

Wednesday 28th January 2009
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RegMolehusband said:
Nope - you don't remember the public information adverts then?

It's not Reg either, I mean, there can't be any PHers called Reginald can there? smile

Edited by RegMolehusband on Wednesday 28th January 19:25
What a pity it's lost for posterity frown it was a true classic.

This is one of the survivors but not quite as amusing

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wNDj88UYAms

s2art

18,942 posts

275 months

Wednesday 28th January 2009
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ultegra said:
The STofR states that gravity is not an instantaneous force. Discuss.
Discuss that nothing can exceed C?

RegMolehusband

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279 months

Wednesday 28th January 2009
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Never mind my 'kin PH name - invent anti-gravity!! biggrin

s2art

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275 months

Wednesday 28th January 2009
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RegMolehusband said:
Never mind my 'kin PH name - invent anti-gravity!! biggrin
Its been done, sort of. Google electro-gravitic coupling. Unfortunately the calcs indicate that truly stupendous efforts would have to be made. However some experiments, using rotating superconductors, produced anomolous effects, many many orders of magnitude bigger than predicted.


Wacky Racer

40,505 posts

269 months

Wednesday 28th January 2009
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RegMolehusband said:
Nope - you don't remember the public information adverts then?

It's not Reg either, I mean, there can't be any PHers called Reginald can there? smile
I've been trying to find these adverts on Youtube etc, for ages......grumpy


"Well done Reginald Molehusband....the safest parker in town".....hehe

ianash

3,286 posts

205 months

Wednesday 28th January 2009
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I manage to defy gravity once a week after a serious shanting session over the boozer.

nelly1

5,659 posts

253 months

Wednesday 28th January 2009
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s2art said:
Discuss that nothing can exceed C?
Er....D?

hehe

cazzer

8,883 posts

270 months

Wednesday 28th January 2009
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I have the Reginald Molehusband film on DVD.


And you can too smile


No need to thank me lads, money will do smile

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Charley-Says-Public-Inform...

King Herald

23,501 posts

238 months

Wednesday 28th January 2009
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RegMolehusband said:
If we're so clever how come we don't understand why large bodies have a gravitational pull? If we could understand the nature of gravity then we could develop anti-gravity materials and we wouldn't need huge rockets to launch us into space and aircraft would waft silently along Just like our alien visitors do all the time.

Just a thought.
Go back to primary school dude.