Warning: Gravity is Only a Theory

[Chuckt]

I'm only posting this for fun:

All physics textbooks should include the following warning label:

This book contains material on gravity. Universal gravity is a theory, not a fact, regarding the natural law of attraction. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully, and critically considered.

The universal theory of gravity is often taught in schools as a "fact," when in fact it is not even a good theory.

First of all, no one has measured gravity for every atom and every star, so how do they know gravity is “universal?” Secondly, school textbooks routinely make false statements, such as “the moon goes around the Earth.” Simple arithmetic using the theory of gravity shows that the sun’s gravitational force on the moon is far greater than the Earth’s force on the moon. So, if the theory of gravity were true, the moon has to go around the sun. Anybody can look up at night and see the obvious “gaps” in gravity theory.

The existence of tides is often taken as proof of gravity, but this is logically flawed. Because if the moon's “gravity” were responsible for a bulge underneath the Earth, then how can anyone explain a high tide on the opposite side of the Earth at the same time? Anyone can observe that there are two high tides every day—not just one. It is far more likely that tides were given to us by an intelligent creator long ago and they have been with us ever since. In any case, two high tides falsifies gravity.

http://www.thehumanist.org/humanist/schempp.html

[brad]

Certainly an interesting read Chuck