Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Is gravity so hard to figure out because it's something our minds readily accept when we are newborns?

I mean the eyes send the info, things fall to the brain, the brain accepts this readily as a survival tool, and therefore doesn't question it in the way it questions seeing the moon.





So does it make it harder for us to work out gravity because of this process?Is gravity so hard to figure out because it's something our minds readily accept when we are newborns?
How we perceive the universe does effect the way we think it works. However, our ability to think and abstract beyond our sense is what makes us able to develop models, like quantum mechanics, that explain phenomenon we don't directly experience. Have you ever actually seen a wave function for an electron?





Gravity is something we experience all out lives. Netonw developed a simple model to explain what he observed but the model didn't say why gravity works. Einstein used an abstract branch of mathematics - differential non-Euclidean geometry, along with some principles form special relativity to develop a model for gravity in which gravity is reach the warpping of space-time due to the presence of matter or energy. His model successfully explains previously observed phenomenon like the perhelion advance of Mecury, along with predicting the light deflection around stars, gravitational lensing, gravitational radiation, and black holes. All have been observed either directly or indirectly.





Was it hard to figure out - yes. But did a conditioned bias have anything to do with the difficulty, probably not since it required the ability to think about th euniverse in a very abstract way.Is gravity so hard to figure out because it's something our minds readily accept when we are newborns?
I dont think we 'readily accept it' as a newborn do you? Does that mean we accept the theory of relativity as infants? Or is it that we would just rather watch the teletubbies.
We all know what it does. The issue is, how does it do it?





A second issue is, why is it so weak in comparison to the other fundamental forces?

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