Newton's law of gravitational attraction
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From: waldofj on 6 Jan 2010 01:43 > Actually, the law of gravitational attraction is just a metaphor for romantic > love. The closer two bodies are to each other, the stronger the romantic > attraction, and the attraction diminishes with distance. At least, that's > what Bob Heinlein told me. I'm familiar with most of his writings but I don't recollect that one. Where's it from?
From: Inertial on 6 Jan 2010 02:08 "waldofj" <waldofj(a)verizon.net> wrote in message news:2ee3c00c-9cd5-4f77-aeb5-8315a3cee072(a)c34g2000yqn.googlegroups.com... > >> Actually, the law of gravitational attraction is just a metaphor for >> romantic >> love. The closer two bodies are to each other, the stronger the romantic >> attraction, and the attraction diminishes with distance. At least, >> that's >> what Bob Heinlein told me. > > I'm familiar with most of his writings but I don't recollect that one. > Where's it from? Fat people are more attracted to each other than skinny people?
From: Androcles on 6 Jan 2010 04:44 "waldofj" <waldofj(a)verizon.net> wrote in message news:2ee3c00c-9cd5-4f77-aeb5-8315a3cee072(a)c34g2000yqn.googlegroups.com... > Actually, the law of gravitational attraction is just a metaphor for > romantic > love. The closer two bodies are to each other, the stronger the romantic > attraction, and the attraction diminishes with distance. At least, that's > what Bob Heinlein told me. I'm familiar with most of his writings but I don't recollect that one. Where's it from? ============================================ "Force always attracts men of low morality." -- Einstein.
From: J. Clarke on 6 Jan 2010 07:29 waldofj wrote: >> Actually, the law of gravitational attraction is just a metaphor for >> romantic love. The closer two bodies are to each other, the stronger >> the romantic attraction, and the attraction diminishes with >> distance. At least, that's what Bob Heinlein told me. > > I'm familiar with most of his writings but I don't recollect that one. > Where's it from? "Orphans of the Sky" IIRC.
From: NoEinstein on 6 Jan 2010 20:39
On Dec 31 2009, 8:05 pm, "Inertial" <relativ...(a)rest.com> wrote: > "NoEinstein" <noeinst...(a)bellsouth.net> wrote in message > > news:14089d0c-877c-411a-836c-7a562ce33bb8(a)u41g2000yqe.googlegroups.com... > > > On Dec 22, 8:17 pm, "Inertial" <relativ...(a)rest.com> wrote: > > > Dear Inertial Fool: I said that the energy-mass is conserved; I never > > claimed that mass will never change. > > I didn't say otherwise > > > Burn a lump of coal and part of > > the mass converts to energy. > > Very very little, if any, mass does. Its a chemical reaction. The mass of > solid residue from the burnt coal has less mass, but that is not the total > mass of the system. > > > But travel at any velocity that you > > choose and there will be ZERO conversion of mass to energy (outside of > > the propulsion system, of course) and ZERO conversion of velocity to > > mass!!!!! > > Noone says velocity converts to mass. Dear Inertial: Then, you are in agreement with more... stupid people. The Law of the Conservation of Energy requires that Energy IN must = Energy OUT. The latter disproves SR. Energy (force) is required to increase velocity. But simply pushing on a lump of matter won't increase its mass. If it did, then squeezing a rubber ball would make it get heavier and heavier. Agreeing with the counter- intuitive isn't brilliance, Inertial, it is proof of stupidity! NE |