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originally posted by: tayton
We are on a ball that's spinning really fast And that ball is shooting through space, why can't that in itself create a force that keeps us grounded?
What's keeping us from being flung away by the spinning, and what's holding stuff on the trailing side as the ball shoots through space? [Hint: It's Earth's gravity]
According to the physicist on minute physics, you, me, him, and everyone else are all products of a flawed education system that teaches us that mass is the source of gravity which it's not. He's probably right, so you're on the wrong track asking about "no mass" with respect to gravity:
originally posted by: Phantom423
A subject of great interest to me.
My question is, and I don't know whether it can be proved mathematically or not: Has there ever been, or could there exist, zero point gravity in this universe. By zero point I mean the total absence of gravity, therefore, no mass, no virtual particles.
I call hijacking and re-defining established terminology "dictionary abuse". It's an impediment to communication because words have meanings and if you don't use them that way, it's hard to understand what you're talking about. The color charges of the quarks are unrelated to the light we can see, so it's really confusing babble to redefine terms so they are, and then give no explanation of the relationship between them and the light we can see (maybe because there isn't one).
originally posted by: blackcrowe
Mine differs in interpretation of the colour charges. And the Quarks names.
The colour charges are red/green/blue. They make the light we can see.
Now you hijack another term, Lagrangian point, or else you misunderstand what a Lagrangian Point is. There is lots of attraction going on at Lagrangian points, so to say there's no attraction is not true.
originally posted by: blackcrowe
a reply to: Phantom423
Yes. It is a thought experiment.
Zero point gravity?
To me would suggest a Lagrangian Point. A point of no repulsion and no attraction.