Gravity....Push vs. Pull
HERNING@uwplatt.edu
Wed, 29 Jul 1998 23:30:44 -0500 (CDT)
Hello All!
I have an interesting topic for discussion that I would like some input
on. Next semester I have a Modern Physics class to take and it got me thinking
about my other physics classes I had and gravity. I remember learning about
gravity but I don't recall ever being told an explanation of gravity and the
evidence on why it is considered a pull, just seemed to be assumed and not
questioned. From much of what I read here it makes much more sense for gravity
to be a push. What is the evidence for gravity being a pull and for it being a
push? Though it would be an interesting point to bring up to the Professor, but
I would like to have all my info correct before I say anything, I know there is
a file listed under some of the old KeelyNet files that described an experiment
with two deep holes and hung masses and that if gravity was a pull they should
have been pulled to a common center , but the were not, I think that the common
center was quite a ways beyond earth in space somewhere, this was on argument
aginst the pull theory. Can't remember what file it was offhand....Anyhow,
anyones input would be appreciated! Thanks.
Garrett Herning
herning@uwplatt.edu
http://vms.www.uwplatt.edu/~herning