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don't listen to big gravity!!!!! (mander.xyz)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 81 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Unironically yes. Gravity is the weakest of the 4 main forces.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Until it isn't

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

And then you start winning nobel prizes!

[–] [email protected] 56 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I mean, yeah

The electrostatic force is why the ocean stays on the outside of the ball instead of the whole thing being consolidated into a black hole

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

instead of the whole thing being consolidated into a black hole

How does that work?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

I think it keeps atoms apart.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Gravity wants to make the atoms touch and the subatomic particles touch too. ESF says nuh uh and pushes them apart, so atoms are >99% empty space. If the forces flipped the Earth would contract into a spheroid much smaller than the moon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

You know, No Game No Life, where the guy deletes Coulomb Force at the end of the word puzzle game?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Sorry this level of brain broken will never not be funny

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago

So, Gravity is so strong it can hold down the ocean, but balloon still go up? Checkmate, Pythagoras. /s

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Physics teacher: "The electrical force that repels the bottom of your foot from the surface of the earth is greater than the gravitational attraction between the entire earth and yourself".

Me: 😲

Edit: I guess it's more correct to say "equal to", rather than "greater" since you're static.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How can they be true?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

If it weren't true you would be experiencing a net acceleration due to the imbalance in the forces acting on you.

What's really interesting is figuring out WHY mechanistically it's true. I had to rethink the whole thing this morning, because it really is pretty nuts how much weaker gravity is than the electrostatic force.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

Gravity strong, but static charge stronger.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

gravity is cringe (compared to the electro-weak and strong forces)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ocean's heavier than hair

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And steel is heavier than feathers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Jet fuel can't melt steel feathers

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

*too

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

if gravity was 33 orders of magnitude stronger we'd be having a bad time right now

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

...but our quads and glutes would be stonking.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That's more or less the premise for Stephen Baxter's book Raft

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)
  • too
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I think that I read too as being about 25% longer oo sound than in to. And because of that, it is processed as a completely separate word in my head. I never just read over a misuse of to. And it bugs me just how much I’m seeing it now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Checkmate liberals