Is gravity equal to god? Think about it...?

Question

(this Q inspired by some kid's homework question in another category)

without gravity:
- the universe would not exist and would never have been formed as nothing would come together
- no galaxies, planets, moons, stars...or life
- if gravity were turned off today, all life would cease and the universe would turn into an enourmous debris field as all matter seperated from what it is currently attached to.

Gravity is the all powerful force that brought about life and has the power to end it if it so chooses to call in sick.

Answer 1

What? Non-existent? No, gravity is real.


THink about it - even though God doesnt really exist, the universe, planets, moons and stars do exist. Therefore, gravity is nothing like God - we NEED gravity.

Answer 2

Well that;s a really interesting point, but you must remember gravity is a by product of mass, and mass is a product of matter. Gravity cannot exist with out mass and mass cannot exist with out matter. So God is more like the matter that creates the mass that creates the gravity. One could say that mass and gravity is like the Prophets and Messiahs of old and new, thats a topic for another day.

Answer 3

You're being too limited in your concept of God. If God is a force of nature, He'd be the TOE (that's theory of everything), that elusive principle that combines General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. Gravity is only one part of nature. If electromagnetism called in sick, all would go dark and cold. If the Nuclear Forces called in sick, all the atoms would fall apart, and the stars wouldn't be able to burn.

Of course, since I have a certain amount of the Discordian in me, I personally wouldn't be surprised to find out that God is Chaos, which is the mechanism through which order arises from disorder.

Answer 4

What about Gravy? Without gravy our meat will remain dry and our poop would hurt when it comes out giving everyone pain and after several people snap they will go on a killing rampage through town until they stop being constipated it will be too late though because they will have allready set off a chain reaction ending in a riot and the whole world is involved so everyone shoots their nukes at eachother and the world is destroyed.

So in this case Gravy=God.

Answer 5

I certainly appreciate any attempts to formulate a more rational, less anthropomorphic (man-like) conception of God.

My only critique is that you have only selected one of the four fundamental forces of nature. You could say exactly the same about the other three (electromagnetic force, strong nuclear force, weak nuclear force), even though you have probably never even heard of the last two.

Scientific meditation on the theological and vice versa is very cool. Work those brain cells that grav....er...God gave you. :)

Answer 6

Gravity is a natural law, much like the laws of physics and the laws of thermodynamics.

There's nothing supernatural about the law of gravity...therefore, equating it to a supernatural being such as an imaginary god, is just silly.

Answer 7

It makes sense but NO ONE can actually answer this question. For all we know, god can be tennis shoes, or may not exist. Remember, humans know NOTHING.

Your theory does sound a lot more plausible than tennis shoes though. I like it.

Answer 8

Nothing is ever equal to it's creator, and God created gravity, so there's your answer if you are a believer.
If you are not a believer, then you most likely think the scientists are the ultimate answer to everything humanity really knows NOTHING about.

Answer 9

This is the physical world, only one of God's dimensions.

Answer 10

I think you should lay off the pot.

There are a number of forces you could say that about. None of them remotely resemble a man wearing sandles in the desert.