LiveWire Network Peer Answers Peer Support Teen Forums Tech Forums College Forums 566 users online 178937 members 2006 active today Advertise Here Sign In
TeenCollegeTechPhotos | Quizzes | LiveSecret | Video | Dictionary | News | FAQ
You have 1 new message.
Emergency Help
Until you sign up you can't do much. Yes, it's free.

Sign Up Now
Membername:
Password:
Already have an account?
Invite Friends
Active Members
Groups
Contests
Moderators
5 online / 32 MPM
Fresh Topics
  LiveWire / Teen Forums / Science & Business / Viewing Topic

Does gravity exist?
Replies: 72Last Post Jan. 13, 2007 10:32am by norock
Pages: 1 2 3 4 5  Next » Email Print Favorite
frenchnerd7


Dairy Product Addict
Reply
Quote: from cowgirl4christ at 3:02 pm on Dec. 9, 2006

yeah, i just dropped my pen and since it fell straight down instead of floating away i'm gonna say that gravity exists.

I was going to discredit this post for the same reason as I did the other, but there is an evidence in this post that without matter gravity is not present. cowgirl4christ states that her pen does not float away. However, the original post has come across an interesting idea...perhaps when matter collapses (as happens in the death of a supergiant)gravity remains present, as it cannot be passed to other matter.

-------
Miracles are not contrary to nature,
but only contrary to what we know about nature. Saint Augustine


8:15 pm on Dec. 8, 2006 | Joined Feb. 2006 | 89 Days Active
Join to learn more about frenchnerd7 Australia | Bisexual Female | 204 Posts | 1253 Points
ZenaGirl


Omnipotent One

Patron
Reply
frenchnerd7, are you saying there must be two separate bodies of matter existing for there to be gravity?  This is a bit like saying a radio wave can not exist if there is no receiver to hear it.  

-------
 ~ Anyone who is not confused doesn't understand the situation ~

8:25 pm on Dec. 8, 2006 | Joined May 2005 | 742 Days Active
Join to learn more about ZenaGirl Florida, United States | Straight Female | 6614 Posts | 19387 Points
frenchnerd7


Dairy Product Addict
Reply
not really, just that the gravity might not be able to be projected across space without matter, like sound is not able to be passed through space

-------
Miracles are not contrary to nature,
but only contrary to what we know about nature. Saint Augustine

8:35 pm on Dec. 8, 2006 | Joined Feb. 2006 | 89 Days Active
Join to learn more about frenchnerd7 Australia | Bisexual Female | 204 Posts | 1253 Points
andrewcool


Omnipotent One

Patron
Reply
Quote: from frenchnerd7 at 10:35 pm on Dec. 8, 2006

not really, just that the gravity might not be able to be projected across space without matter, like sound is not able to be passed through space

Sound is an energy...  

-------
Saving the World, One post at a time.

8:36 pm on Dec. 8, 2006 | Joined Aug. 2004 | 702 Days Active
Join to learn more about andrewcool Connecticut, United States | Straight Male | 6393 Posts | 17149 Points
MINDSETxINFECT


Wealthy Hobo
Reply
Uhm, you can't just have GRAVITY like.. sitting there.



-------
God is light, and there is no darkness in Him at all.


8:40 pm on Dec. 8, 2006 | Joined April 2006 | 153 Days Active
Join to learn more about MINDSETxINFECT Texas, United States | Straight Female | 2652 Posts | 4468 Points
frenchnerd7


Dairy Product Addict
Reply
its an analogy...other energy types go across space without matter. Forces other than gravity seem to exist in space also without matter.

-------
Miracles are not contrary to nature,
but only contrary to what we know about nature. Saint Augustine

8:41 pm on Dec. 8, 2006 | Joined Feb. 2006 | 89 Days Active
Join to learn more about frenchnerd7 Australia | Bisexual Female | 204 Posts | 1253 Points
ZenaGirl


Omnipotent One

Patron
Reply
Quote: from frenchnerd7 at 11:35 pm on Dec. 8, 2006

not really, just that the gravity might not be able to be projected across space without matter, like sound is not able to be passed through space

Well electromagnetic waves- light, radio can transverse vacuous space so why do you think gravity can not?

-------
 ~ Anyone who is not confused doesn't understand the situation ~


8:43 pm on Dec. 8, 2006 | Joined May 2005 | 742 Days Active
Join to learn more about ZenaGirl Florida, United States | Straight Female | 6614 Posts | 19387 Points
frenchnerd7


Dairy Product Addict
Reply
because the behaviour of gravity seems to be dependent upon matter and vice versa

-------
Miracles are not contrary to nature,
but only contrary to what we know about nature. Saint Augustine

9:14 pm on Dec. 8, 2006 | Joined Feb. 2006 | 89 Days Active
Join to learn more about frenchnerd7 Australia | Bisexual Female | 204 Posts | 1253 Points
IamNotBritish


Soothsayer
Reply
Quote: from azp at 8:59 pm on Dec. 8, 2006

I never taken any science courses, so I wouldn't know

As if that wasn't painfully obvious...

-------
When a man leaves his darkness, he follows the Son.


10:25 pm on Dec. 8, 2006 | Joined July 2004 | 381 Days Active
Join to learn more about IamNotBritish Arizona, United States | Male | 7357 Posts | 11815 Points
myystic


The osseous sectet.

Patron
Support Leader
Reply
S'far's'I'know, gravity is a characteristic 'property' of anything with a mass. So if you destroyed the Earth, it wouldn't produce any more gravitational pull. Black holes, on the other hand, are considered to be incredible dense (read: massive) objects, thus having a large gravitational pull.

-------
Routinely sucking the cosmic fugue off our fingers.

3:26 am on Dec. 9, 2006 | Joined Dec. 2004 | 939 Days Active
Join to learn more about myystic Australia | Label Free Male | 6710 Posts | 33163 Points
Seanee


Enlightened One

Patron
Support Leader
Reply
Gravity is a force, without the Earth's matter, there would be no force, therefore no gravity.

6:04 am on Dec. 9, 2006 | Joined Sep. 2006 | 460 Days Active
Join to learn more about Seanee England, United Kingdom | Straight Male | 9777 Posts | 14843 Points
negative0


Guru

Patron
Reply
well, this was an interesting topic. about... 24 replies with the exact same answer? nice.

6:57 am on Dec. 9, 2006 | Joined Dec. 2003 | 1150 Days Active
Join to learn more about negative0 Nova Scotia, Canada | Straight Male | 14455 Posts | 21531 Points
ZenaGirl


Omnipotent One

Patron
Reply
Quote: from Seanee at 9:04 am on Dec. 9, 2006

Gravity is a force, without the Earth's matter, there would be no force, therefore no gravity.

There would be gravity even if the earth didn't exist.  Gravity permeates the entire universe.  Even the gravity of distant stars is felt here on earth- although infinitesimally.   The moon’s gravity however has a significant effect- actually pulling on the ocean’s waters to create tides.

-------
 ~ Anyone who is not confused doesn't understand the situation ~


8:15 am on Dec. 9, 2006 | Joined May 2005 | 742 Days Active
Join to learn more about ZenaGirl Florida, United States | Straight Female | 6614 Posts | 19387 Points
nickai


Personal Assistant
Reply
i see it this way. gravity may exist around matter and may have a major part in the formation of black holes- the process of a dieing star sucking in energy from other sources in an attempt to stay alive- but if there was  no matter how are we going to know if it can exist on its own? because we are made of matter ourselves. or could gravity be like elements in that theres no way of completely distroying them but they can change in formation and what they join to to lose or gain properties?

-------
freedom is just another word for theres nothing else to lose!

5:13 pm on Dec. 9, 2006 | Joined July 2006 | 19 Days Active
Join to learn more about nickai Australia | Label Free Female | 36 Posts | 239 Points
espresso8097


Guru

Patron
Tech Support Leader
Reply
If there was no natural mass in any object in the universe there may stand a chance of not being gravity, but then nobody or nothing will say if It can or can't.  Thus no existence.

-------
We do what we must because we can.
Guess who just got a red bar, finally!
"ur wrong again.. damn u can't do any thing wright"
               ---aGIRLunknown

11:18 pm on Dec. 9, 2006 | Joined Jan. 2005 | 764 Days Active
Join to learn more about espresso8097 Illinois, United States | GLBT Ally Male | 7493 Posts | 22940 Points
Pages: 1 2 3 4 5  Next » Email Print Favorite

Quick Reply

You are signed in as our guest.

Looking for something else?
 

  LiveWire / Teen Forums / Science & Business / Viewing Topic