To: snarks_when_bored
that is as well substantiated as any other natural law, whether the law of gravity That's fine but sometimes laws change.
6 posted on
09/19/2005 3:40:07 AM PDT by
bkepley
To: bkepley
Well-established laws in science rarely change; rather, they are superseded by laws which take account of a wider (or more extreme) range of phenomena. Contrast the range of applicability of Newton's inverse square law of gravity with Einstein's general relativistic theory of gravity. You can send a rocket around the moon and back using Newton's law and not be off by much; but if you want to understand what happens around a neutron star or a black hole, say, Einstein's theory is essential.
To: bkepley
"law of gravity"
Didn't Newton come up with the law of gravity? Since we have known about gravity so long, what exactly is the nature of gravity? I understand the relationship between mass and distance and all, but why is there gravity? How does it work? I do not think the best minds have been able to reconcile gravity with the forces in a unified theory have they?
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