gravity or grabbity?

Question

Shouldn't we just call it grabbity since it grabs us and pulls us down?

Answer 1

lately I feel more like i am being pushed down

Answer 2

Gravity is a force between two objects. While the Earth pulls on you, you are also pulling on the Earth. And there is no real "down." It all depends on the reference frame you're in. Anywhere in the world (which we obviously know to be round), the so-called "down" direction means "towards the center of Earth."

As I said before, the Earth is also being pulled towards you. That's where Newton's laws kick in: The Earth exerts a force on you because of gravity, but you exert an equal and opposite force on Earth (3rd law). If you jump up, a spectator in a space shuttle outside of Earth would see you falling down but not the Earth moving up because you have less mass than the Earth and are easier to accelerate (2nd law).

Answer 3

I had to smile when I saw your question. My partner has a preternaturallly serious young nephew, living in the deep south. When he was about 5 or 6 years old, someone asked him a question about why things fall, and he solemnly replied, in his slow but solemn way of speaking, "It's because of grabbity!"

There must be something about malapropisms or unusual juxtapositions of words that runs in this particular branch of the family. His younger brother, on a trip abroad, loved to go to a famous nearby lake a lot. When asked why, he said it was because "I like to feed the swamps [swans]. " As his father said, "You can take the boy out of Loisiana but you just can't take Loisiana out of the boy!"

Returning to "grabbity," you might like to know that the essence of your idea of describing gravity this way has perhaps been caught in a course taught at UC Santa Cruz for the past three decades or so:

Astronomy 11: "Gravity, The Universal Glue!"

The acronym for this is of course: G-TUG! --- which gets across the same idea.

Live long and prosper.

Answer 4

NO NO NO!!!! gravity doesnt PULL gravity PUSHES. in a perfect free fall inviornment gravity equals 9.8 m/2^2. and your weight is equal to your mass times gravity (9.8). the force that counter acts gravity which keeps you from drillinkg throught the earth is normal force.

Normally normal force will equal gravity, however, in some situations involving a slow, ramp, or one object pulling on another, this will vary with meu, as the coeficient of friction.


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Finally, normal force counter acts gravity with the same amount of force as gravity. theres a word for a number but i forgot, i cant believe this this sucks. anyway. normal force is the reason why you dont drill through the earth. hope this answered your question, good bye.

Answer 5

Or does it grab? According to Einstein's special relativity, gravity is simply an object with mass "warping" the "fabric of time-space." Because objects naturally take the "easiest" path, they will follow this warp. This phenomena appears as if objects with mass are "grabbing" at eachother, when they are not . . . kind of. Look up the theory of special relativity if you still have questions.

Answer 6

Gravity or grabbity, it does not matter since neither exist anyway.

Actually, the earth sucks, and that is why we don't fly off into space.

And to the person who said a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. Actually it should be "A rose by any other name would still give you hay fever."

(OK, bad jokes, but hey, what do you expect.)

Answer 7

Very near to GRAB, acually it is a central pull

Answer 8

What's in a name? A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet.

Answer 9

It doesn't grab us.

Answer 10

catchy turn of phrase there