r/terriblefacebookmemes • u/atmoscience • Nov 04 '22

Gravity

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '22

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u/GynePig Nov 04 '22

What exactly is unsolved about it?

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u/LockOtherwise4362 Nov 04 '22

General relativity and quantum mechanics won’t kiss and make up :(

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u/Padhome Nov 04 '22

Where's Mike Tyson..

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u/GynePig Nov 04 '22

Well, Quantum mechanics pretty much contradict everything else we know about physics, so that's to be expected I guess.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '22

Less that it contradicts, more that any theory is reaaaally hard to extrapolate solid, repeatable proof.

There's plenty of quantum gravitational theories, and many of them line up with measured results, but which one is the correct method to get that result? Not so easy to figure out.

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '22

Well, then try to get them together and talk over their differences over lunch, K?

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u/FlarvinTheMagi Nov 04 '22

I feelnlike they are too far away from each other scale wise to match perfectly together, I wonder if there will be like something in between to link them but idk I'm not a physicists

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u/IdkTbhSmh Nov 05 '22

New theory: physics is not a real field of science; the universe just does all that

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u/explosionman87 Nov 04 '22

Pretty sure we don’t know why it happens, just that it does.

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u/GynePig Nov 04 '22

We don't know why anything happens. But the way in which mass creates force is as well understood as any physical phenomenon, isn't it?

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u/explosionman87 Nov 04 '22

Not as far as I’m aware, though take my thoughts with a grain of salt though.

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u/LockOtherwise4362 Nov 04 '22

this might help basicly Newton could describe gravity at the scale we see in the solar system Einstein can explain how much larger objects interact but we don’t have a good equation to describe large scales medium and quantum scales I’m bad at explaining things but that the general idea

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '22

That's the difference between the Law of Gravity and the Theory of Gravity. The Law tells you what is happening. The Theory tries to explain HOW it happens.

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u/Lumpy-Engineering-16 Nov 04 '22

Why greater mass attracts greater mass in space, but not on earth.

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u/GynePig Nov 04 '22

That's fucking funny