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> It's crazy how little we understand about gravity if you think about it. We understand most things about it > It's a perpetual energy source right in front
by nl 6y ago
> It's crazy how little we understand about gravity if you think about it.
We understand most things about it
> It's a perpetual energy source right in front of us,
No it's not. It's a good way to store energy but in no way is a source.
> and can barely offer a basic explanation as to what powers it
It's not something that has power. It's a consequence of entropy.
> It even impacts time itself
You sound surprised by this? Given relativity it would be more surprising if it didn't.
- jb775 6y agoIMO you grossly overestimate the amount humans know about things. Science is basically a stream of updated realizations that the previous "known" things were actually wrong.
- rcxdude 6y agoand you vastly underestimate it
- kingsuper20 6y agoI underestimate it and overestimate it. Excuse me, I'm off to build a battery out of a bank of leaf springs.
- f6v 6y ago> We understand most things about it In a classical mechanics sense - yes. But the waves were detected just couple years ago.
- nl 6y agoIt's true we only recently have been able to built equipment sensitive enough to measure them. However, they were predicted in 1916 as part of Einstein's Relativity work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_wave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_wave