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!!! GRAVITY IS AN ILLUSION... EXPLAINS BRILLIANT PHYSICIST !!!
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 1326372:MV8xNDU1MTU4XzI0MDA2ODk1X0MyNUZENzA1] [quote:oniongrass] Dude, what do you mean "explain" electrostatic forces? Explain them (another form of action at a distance) in terms of local micro effects? [/quote] I meant simply explain why a difference in electrical potential causes two objects to be attracted to each other. I am sincerely convinced that understanding this attraction or force of attraction is the key to understanding all four forces. All of the other forces follow the same pattern and do the same thing, just in different situations and different scales, and the have the same inverse proportionality with distance. The force that binds atoms together is no exception. The energy level of an electron decreases as it's orbital distance from the center of the nucleus increases, meaning the force acting on it to bind it to the nucleus has to be less as well to explain a stable orbit. The force magnets create follows the same pattern, as does gravity. My guess is the force of attraction is cause by the same thing since they have identical manifestations . What is it? [quote:oniongrass] The very standard idea is thermodynamics as a large-ensemble description of micro statistical mechanical (i.e. quantum mechanical) effects. Temperature, a macro thermodynamic effect, based on a counting of available quantum mechanical states in the ensemble. Does that make sense, or is that also pure nonsense in your view? [/quote] Temperature as a thermodynamic principle refers to a measurement of energy states of atoms as they interact with each other vibrationally in a matrix . The 'hotter' something is, the more energetically it's atoms are vibrating. [/quote]
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How’s that for a Wednesday evening mind-bender?
Erik Verlinde, a Dutch theoretical physicist and string theorist, has some questions about gravity–one question specifically: where does gravity come from? Turns out, Verlinde explains, that gravity is an illusion.
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