okay well. my science teacher today said that sir isaac newton did not discover gravity.. he was the first to discover that gravity was everywhere,so he didnt discover it. what i want to know did anybody discover it... or was it just there since the earth was created... or did galileo discover it.. im confussled!! help me!!!!!!!!!
2006-09-12 12:00:34 · 18 answers · asked by imsoCOOL_bejealous 2 in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
okay well. my science teacher today said that sir isaac newton did not discover gravity.. he was the first to discover that gravity was everywhere,so he didnt discover it. what i want to know did anybody discover it... or was it just there since the earth was created... or did galileo discover it.. im confussled!! help me!!!!!!!!!
and i cant ask my science teacher... its for an extra credit problem!!
2006-09-12 12:19:00 · update #1
and i cant ask my science teacher... its for an extra credit problem!! when i find this out...ill tell you people.. okie dokie!!
2006-09-12 12:19:59 · update #2
Hi,
I Think That since the time of the Greek philosopher Aristotle in the 4th century BC,there have been many attempts to understand
And explain gravity.
What it is am not sure 100% but i think that Newton just publish is work that he fund in the year 1687.
Hope that help a bit.
Ben.
2006-09-12 12:18:52 · answer #1 · answered by beacon1mar 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
gravity has been there almost since the beginning of the universe, it came into existence a bazillionth of a second after the big bang (yes, dear pedants, i know that a bazillionth doesn't actually exist, but i really can't be arsed to find a way of putting the actual number into lay terms, so let's just say a very very short time after the big bang, ok?). what isaac newton achieved was to realise that it is everywhere and, more importantly, to realise that it's an elementary force of nature that contributes a huge part to making the universe work the way it does. i think what your teacher is trying to say is that you can't discover something that is already all around you because that's not what discovering means. you can merely realise its significance which is what newton did. btw - of course gravity has always (well, always for the purposes of this debate anyway) been there. how do you think things would have worked before newton otherwise? ;-) gravity is what keeps the whole universe together, y'know.
2006-09-12 19:17:33 · answer #2 · answered by nerdyhermione 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Okay - Newton did not discover gravity - it had always been there, and people had worked out that something consistent was going on, objects fell to earth etc, they had also worked out that planetary bodies orbited. What Newton came up with was a theory of gravity, that explained some of the laws under which gravity operated, whichin turn made testable predictions.
2006-09-12 19:05:19 · answer #3 · answered by Avondrow 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Galileo first discovered the force of gravity but Sir Isaac Newton that it existed everywhere in the universe. Gravity gets stronger with altitude. It actually gets weaker (very
slightly) with altitude. Hope this cleares it up for you.
2006-09-12 19:09:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gravity has been around since the creation of the universe. It is the natural attraction of objects that have mass for each other.
When one says Newton "discovered" gravity, that means he figured out that there was a force of attraction between masses active in the universe. He then went on to mathematically express a set of laws that describes the behavior of gravity, mass and acceleration. He determined the concept of a "gravitational constant" - a value that describes how fast an object speeds up (accelerates) as it falls toward another object (in his case, the Earth).
2006-09-12 19:07:03 · answer #5 · answered by Jack 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I guess no one discovered gravity - it didn't hide away from us. However, I do think that Sir Isaac Newton was a the first tor realise it in a scientific context.
Before him, people just took it for granted that things sit on the floor / ground.
2006-09-12 19:08:48 · answer #6 · answered by dealer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the world is much more complex than we as humans can interpretate. discovering some of the ways it lives (if you like) does in no way mean that the discoverer can be praised for that part of the worlds workings. he/she have come to a conclusion based on science on explaining what has been there since time of creation they are the dicoverers not the makers. you may discover 10 pounds or 10dollars somewhere but you found it. you didnt make it.
2006-09-12 21:22:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gravity has always been around. Newton merely discovered that gravity existed and came up with some properties concerning it.
2006-09-12 19:12:59 · answer #8 · answered by Ashwinkle B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Newton discovered that gravity exsisted, but of course it was always there. Nobody invented air either, it was always there, but of course people figured out what it was. . .Does that make sense? I know it sounds weird. . .An invention would be like an idea one person gets and then they act upon it to MAKE something new. Newton didn't MAKE gravity. He just figured the whole thing out.
2006-09-12 19:07:28 · answer #9 · answered by ShouldBeWorking 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well I think this answer may confuse you a bit more, but here goes.
Gravity has been 'discovered' by everyone who has ever observed anything falling out of the sky or falling over.
I believe he was the first person to pen a serious scientific theory. I could be wrong on this though.
2006-09-12 19:08:39 · answer #10 · answered by footynutguy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋