From: John Jurgens (squooker@mweb.co.za)
Date: Fri May 17 2002 - 12:58:25 MDT
[Blunderov]
Does anyone happen to know whether anything like the following
experiment has ever been performed?
A mass is weighed, on a very sensitive scale, on the side of the earth
that is in front of the Earth's direction of movement through space and
then weighed on the side of the earth that is behind it. Of course you
wouldn't physically have to move, it would simply be a matter of having
a sufficiently sensitive scale and some time to spare.
What I have in mind is this:
If there is a discrepancy, however slight, then we would have measured
the gravity of the earth plus, and then minus, it's momentum through
space and this would suggest that gravity does in fact emanate, as an
attractive force, from the center of a mass.
But if not....
This would imply that the Earth does not suck, it's the universe that
blows!
Warm Regards.
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