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Newton predicted that if the sun is gone the planets would instantly fly out of their orbits. Drifting off into space in a stright line. Newton thought the gravity was the force that acts instantaniously across any distance with mass or volume.
Einstein saw a big problem with Newtons theory a problem that aroused from his work with light. Einstein knew that light doesn't travel instantaniously in fact it takes 8mins for the suns rays to travel to 93mill/miles Earth. He shown that nothing, not even gravity can travel faster than light. How can the Earth be release from its orbit before the darkenss resulting from the from the sun's absence reach our eyes?
Anything that outruns light is impossible that ment Newton. the 4D of space a single Dimention of time has bond togather a frabric of space. To understand this Einstein has to use geometry to understand this. Things move along this fabric of space time. Like the surface of a trampoline. Is morph & strech by heavy objects like stars

2007-04-24 17:51:42 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Physics

Its this morhping and curving of space time that creates what we feel as gravity. Not because the sun instantly grabs hold of Earth's orbit. But simply because they follow curves and bendings by the facial fabric by the curve of the sun presents.

The sun is gone, The gravitational disturbance would result that forms a wave that would travel across the facial fabric in much of a way that a pebble drops in the pond. Makes ripples that travel across the surfave of water. We wouldn't feel the change of the orbit around the sun. Until this wave reaches the Earth. Einstein calculated that ripples travel exactly the speed of light.

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT HIS THEORY I BELIEVE HIM!??????????????????????????

2007-04-24 17:56:53 · update #1

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I see that you answered your own question. But to be honest, we still don't know exactly the nature of gravity. The picture of fabrics is very good in demonstrating what's happening, but do these 'gravity waves' really exist?

2007-05-01 18:55:54 · answer #1 · answered by ehabhamdy1983 3 · 0 1

You have a lot of babble and very little substance.

In Newton's model, gravity is a force that acts at a distance. If the sun were to disappear, Newton would say that our orbit would instantly turn into a straight trajectory as there would be no gravitational force to change the direction of the Earth's motion.

Einstein believes that this cannot be true as nothing, not even gravity, can act or move faster than the speed of light. In the theory of relativity, gravity is essentially the bending of space-time.

For a particle-physicist, there is no such thing as action at a distance, something both Newton and Einstein have in common. For them, gravity is the exchange of massless graviton particles (according to the Standard Model). Since these particles have not been discovered, it is not known if they travel faster than the speed of light.

To be honest with you and to summarize everything, we really don't know how gravity works. We have some theories, but no defined law.

2007-04-24 18:04:40 · answer #2 · answered by msi_cord 7 · 0 0

You answered your own question? Space is curved, and that's the reason we have gravity. That means that gravity doesn't 'travel' in any other form than a wave.

So you have a point. However, nobody said that the sun will cease to exist just like that and that Earth would inmidiatly be released. First the Sun will turn into a red giant. It will be so big, that it will either consume Earth, or will push earth out of orbit.

Second point of consideration. Nothing travels faster than light ... except space itself.
If the Sun did suddently dissapear, just like you said, we wouldn't feel the effect until the gravity wave reached us. However, due to space curvature(which is bigger than what you might think), the distance between us and the Sun is actually smaller than what we see(remember light follows the curvature of space). So the gravity wave doesn't actually need to be traveling at the speed of light(and there is nothing preventing it from doing it even faster) to reach us before the last ray of light from the Sun does.

2007-04-24 18:14:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

was there a question in that at all? wait... found it...'What do you think about this?' see the question mark every1? that means its a question *nods head* any way...moving on.
imagine the earth stting in a dent in the universe. that is called a blanket in gravity. you see, the earth indents the universe making a dent (at least this is what many scientists believe) so the world can sit in it while revolving and orbiting. so the earth would stay there comfy in its little bed making its own gravity. Newton and Einstien...1 could be right, 1 could be wrong, they both could be right, they both could be wrong, scientists today could be right, they could be wrong. Who knows?

2007-05-02 00:32:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

All I have to say is that this is a good discussion and a good point brought by the asker. I personally can not give my two cents because well I have not advanced in physics that far. I am in 2nd year of university level physics. But I think there should be more discussions like these on yahoo answer because they spark the brains of others.

2007-04-24 18:42:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

>>even if, all one has to do to teach that it truly is inaccurate is to seem at a tape of the astronauts and gadgets in the commute. it truly is glaring that they seem weightless, i.e. it appears that evidently that the stress of gravity is 0.<< that would not teach there is not any gravity. If the stress of gravity replaced into 0 the commute would not stay in orbit around the Earth. The commute remains in orbit because it truly is transferring quickly adequate that the Earth curves away below it on a similar fee it falls in route of the Earth. Throw a ball horizontally and it curves downwards in route of the floor as gravity acts on it. Throw it extra sturdy it is going further. Throw it difficult adequate and the curve of the ball as gravity pulls it down matches the curve of the Earth's floor, so it not in any respect hits the floor. it truly is an orbit. each thing contained in the commute is orbiting on a similar %, so interior it appears that evidently to be floating relative to the commute. >>replaced into Newton incorrect?<< no longer contained in the sense you're asking about, no.

2016-12-04 20:03:46 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Is there anything like a real question embedded in all of this peurile, techno-babble rant?

I think that both SR and GR have been pretty conclusively demonstrated to everyones satisfaction.


Doug

2007-04-24 17:57:27 · answer #7 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 0 1

Newton isn't God. Neither is Einstein, he was wrong about a lot of stuff as well.

2007-04-24 17:58:02 · answer #8 · answered by joe 1 · 0 0

a lot of gravity is involved and the factors there of

2007-05-02 16:16:55 · answer #9 · answered by RT 6 · 0 0

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