If gravity is just a theory?

Question

Should I tell my friend who's fallen and can't get up that it's all only in her mind and if she didn't believe in gravity she would be able to get up just fine?

Wai,
I have a degree in English... where exactly is my sentence grammatically incorrect? Perhaps it could have been phrased differently, but grammatically incorrect it's not. Thanks, though. It's good to know people with no sense of humor resort to personal attacks. Just lovely. Oooh...was that an incomplete sentence? I've GOT to watch that stream-of-consciousness writing!

♥ You are now my Grammar Guru ♥

Answer 1

Ha! Good idea. Maybe teachers should be required to put big stickers on the sceince textbooks talking about alternative theories to gravity.

Answer 2

So, there aren't any theories that go against other theories? There are never 2 or more scientists who use proofs as you call them that have 2 completely different views on how one particular situation occured? If so, are both scientists right?

The laws of science aren't always used to put a theory into existence. The what goes up, must come down law of gravity. Is slightly differnt than Hey, guess what the earth is a milliion years old. I can readily test the law of gravity for myself. However, I would find it difficult to find anyone alive today that was alive a miliion years ago.

Answer 3

No. You're confusing the law with the theory. The Law of gravity says that what goes up must come down. The THEORIES of gravity purport to explain how this happens. Of course, on the Internet there are literally dozens of theories to choose from. I kinda like the 'gravity is a push' theory, myself.

Answer 4

The point of an earlier question was there are scientific theories, such as Gravity, quantum mechanics, evolution, and relativity which describe how it's accepted that those things work, then there is the facts of them working/existing.

The two are often confused by those having little scientific background.

For instance, the theory of evolution hasn't been demonstrated, but that evolution happens has. Or that how gravity works hasn't been demonstrated, but that it exists has.

Answer 5

The Onion news site has this covered, back in 2005. Headline:

"Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New 'Intelligent Falling' Theory"

Answer 6

Gravity is a theory... A theory is as HIGH as it gets in science... I would suggest that you take out your dictionary and look up the word theory... Never mind, I did it for you.

1 A set of statements or principles devised to explain a group of facts or phenomena, especially one that has been repeatedly tested or is widely accepted and can be used to make predictions about natural phenomena.

Now, the common usage of THEORY is defined:

An assumption based on limited information or knowledge; a conjecture.

So, in the scientific context, THEORY is virtually FACT...

Answer 7

gravity is not a theory, its a law of nature. it was proven centaries ago, and i do mean long before Sir Issac Newton was hit with an apple. the Mayan, Aztecs, Egyptians, Mesopotaimians, and pretty much all non Judeo-Catholic civilizations of the Ancient World know of gravity.

Answer 8

dude for a second i thought it said gravy, thats what i was preparing to answer... i feel let down, man.

oh and to the gravity thing, yeah if she didnt believe in gravity she would just float up. no need to hurt yourself trying to get up if you dont believe in gravity...

but really, what IF gravy were just a theory?

Answer 9

you cannot prove something by practical application. that is not the scientific method of proof.

it's a theory. probably will remain so until we figure out the unified field theory and then the math will allow a proof.

Answer 10

Correct because Gravity is just a theory and hasn't been proven the rules from Genesis apply.