so if Gravity makes things fall, does that mean the Universe is falling too?

so if Gravity makes things fall, does that mean the Universe is falling too?

Only if there is a VERY large object underneath the universe...

blobby blobby blobby.

This is a joke question, right?

blobby blobby blobby.

Only if there is a huge object underneath it, which might be another universe, or "plane". Which could be the other form of "living", if you can understand that. Interesting though, cool thread, I never really thought about that until now

-wD

Originally posted by Valhall
Only if there is a VERY large object underneath the universe...

blobby blobby blobby.

or

everything with a MASSIVE gravitational pull is located beneath our galaxy....now would this *gasp* give us some idea of a room-sized effect of this universe?
ie: we, on earth, are located chair-leg height, heading downwards.
and another thing....the earth constantly rotates, how have we taken a good look on all sides? ie: all 360'
and the radio-waves dispatched some 40 years' ago....where were they headed??
Cyrus

Originally posted by WeBDeviL
Only if there is a huge object underneath it, which might be another universe, or "plane". Which could be the other form of "living", if you can understand that. Interesting though, cool thread, I never really thought about that until now

-wD

ok.... we're living in god's world, god is a kid living on planet "kong", he's created an artificial world/created us in a bubble-like chamber filled with nothing on all sides...we're smack-down in the middle(ie: the earth being the center of the universe doesn't seem so ridiculous now eh??) we depend on this kid and are pretty much a bee-hive

those signals we sent scored him an A* in his science project, and now..slowly, he's getting bored.
*await the "rattle the cage to make 'em buggers' move" effect*
#...is officially a worst-case scenario.
crack? yes...how'd u guess
Cyrus

I think we are going up actually, because the mass is above us. So therefore also people would be lighter on the other side of the world, and calculations of many scientists show that the people under the earth are 0,045% lighter then over here. That means the universe moves to the above with a speed of 78,393 miles an hour. A few starsystems are exeptions however...

Once you get into deep space. There is no up or down.

Falling is just a perception of what is happening. The direction we are pulled by gravity is relative to our orientation and what we perceive as up and down. Is someone on the other side of the earth 'falling'? Even though relative to our own idea of up and down, they are falling 'up'? We are all pulled towards the same mass. Falling is just a word. And really does not mean anything outside of each individual body of mass that is large enough to exert a force on another body of mass.

[Edited on 11/29/03 by crayon]

Rather than "falling" under the gravitational field from its matter, the universe would tend to collapse in on itself like a deflated balloon.

However, since its initial creation during the big bang the universe has expanded so rapidly that the explosive force has prevented gravity from causing the universe to collapse. If there happens to be enough matter in the universe, eventually this expansion will slow more and more until it stops. Then gravity will take over, and then cause the universe to collapse back to a singularity.

Originally posted by Valhall
Only if there is a VERY large object underneath the universe...

blobby blobby blobby.

Maybe the VERY large object underneath the Universe is Gods Hand

well, no it can't exactly be "falling, because if you think that if we were falling, the direction would be down. now say people in the northern hemisphere would say we were falling down people in the southern hemisphere wouild say we were falling down then because it wouldn't make sense to say we were falling up. so we can't be falling anyway because in space there's no north south east or west. that's the point of havibng co-ordinates. plus the fact taht if we were falling, what would we be falling into?

The Universe would not fall unless there was a larger gravitational force under it. However the planets in our system are progressing closer to the sun. It's like throwing a coin into a giant funnel at high speeds. The coin will circle the hole in the center but it also slowly falls.