USAFHokie80 wrote:Nipok, your example is slightly flawed. Supposing you filled a sphere with O2 you would eventually create enough pressure to liquify the O2.
USA, sorry but your response is slightly flawed. Long before the density of the gas would become a liquid all three orbits mentioned would have long since disintegrated and the planets would have collapsed into the sun. Throw a baseball as hard as you can on the Earth 25 times and mark the distance the ball travels before it lands. Gravity causes the ball to fall to the earth. Perform the same experiment on any other planet with an atmosphere and the denser the atmosphere the shorter distance the ball will travel. On something like the moon where there is almost no atmosphere at all and the ball will travel farther. Mark my words this will be proven someday. Labs and vacuums have not done us justice because the mass of the Earth can not be removed from the picture.
USAFHokie80 wrote:let's remember that the planets remain in orbit due to the warping of space around the sun, due to its mass/density.
Actually they don't. The angular momentum, centripetal forces, and gravity are what lets satellites like our planet maintain their orbit. The warping of space and time is another construct built with plastic bricks. The effects of gravity on the particles that carry light waves are not mystical warpings of space and time. Time can be affected by velocity but time and space do not warp. They are relative to each observer so two observers may observe things differently from each other so to one observer the others observations may appear "warped" but from a non-stationary observer there is no warp taking place. This is another flawed misnomer holding the failing paradigm together.
USAFHokie80 wrote:The addition of a gas into a closed system would not negate the effect the sun has on the fluid of space anymore than the atmosphere of earth dissintegrates the orbit of the moon.
Perfect example, add an unlimited supply of oxygen to our own atmosphere at a rate that would expand our atmosphere to reach the diameter of the moon's orbit and before the atmosphere was the diameter of the moon the moon would have crashed to the earth. The quicker the rate of oxygen was added the faster the moon would fall into the earth thus the acceleration due to gravity is wrong.
USAFHokie80 wrote:I've read quite a bit on String Theory and it does make sense to me. It is not a bandage someone pulled out of the cabinet. It is a theory based on observation and math. I dare not speculate of what a "string" is composed, but I definitely agree with their existance.
That's fine. Everyone is entitled to their beliefs. One day the house will come crashing down when no number of band-aids can stand up to the observation(s) and/or proof(s) that will someday shed true light on the nature of the fabric of space, time, and energy. That day will come but until that day I'll just try to spread the word so maybe in 20 years someone might say, ****, that crazy sounding guy on the message boards was right after all.
USAFHokie80 wrote: As for this "aether" being the key. You stated you cannot produce a proof of this so it seems odd to make such a statement... And I fail to see what the atmosphere of a planet has to do with its gravity. The two are not related. Gravity is a function of mass. This is known and proven beyond a doubt through both quantum and relativistic physics.
Actually I've provided multiple examples of experiments that are logical representations of the nature of sparse and dense matter as the reactant that can increase or decrease the effects of gravity. With the lead I do hope some mathematicians can figure out how this can be used to join the 4 known forces which I strongly believe can be done once we recognize the true nature of gravity and electromagnetism.
Gravity is a function of mass. I do not deny that. Gravitons are not what help carry gravity waves however. Lets say you have ball A at 100 pounds 2 feet away from ball B that is 90 pounds which is 2 feet away from ball C which is 95 pounds which is 2 feet away from ball D at 225 pounds. All this is in a pure vacuum. Ball A attracts Ball B. Ball B is attracted by both A and C. etc. etc. etc. Ball D with the greatest mass would exert a stronger pull on ball C then B would on C. Ball A would pull at B but since C is also pulling at B and D is pulling C then both B and C would move towards D. A which has more mass then B would counteract the amount of time that B would take to move and the speed it would move but in the end ball A would (since it is mutually attracted to B) would tug along with B so C, B, and A would all pull towards D.
Take this simple scenario that can be proven with Newtonian physics 101 and expand that to include hundreds of thousands of particles acting on each other as components that make gravity work the way it does. The inverse square law of mass working at between A and D, A and C, A and B and being enhanced by B and C.
You closed with something being proven by both quantum and relativistic physics but its funny that of all the things to pick that quantum physics and relativistic physics can explain and explain well you choose the one thing that GR and QM are unable to reach an agreement on. If nothing else, gravity has been a stumbling block in merging GR and QM. Moreso, Newtonian physics also had problems dealing with 3 or more object gravitational equations so it seems that the nature of an attraction that binds the universe together is as of yet unable to be fully quantified by the 3 leading doctrines of science. I am not spewing fairy tales and rubbish. Part of my statements may be far fetched and as of yet hard to comprehend but the truth of the matter is that if you study the current paradigm long enough and in particular the speculations that abound in the paradigm that are taken for fact because nothing better has come along you begin to see certain areas that have no more strength to stand ground then the logical explanations that I have come up with.