tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21792850.post114676884278053458..comments2023-06-09T08:14:55.315-06:00Comments on sheep go to heaven: latin: for a change--jeff *http://www.blogger.com/profile/10924343100485992100noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21792850.post-1146783114036360092006-05-04T16:51:00.000-06:002006-05-04T16:51:00.000-06:00Ugh, that was a lot of typos...Ugh, that was a lot of typos...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21792850.post-1146783030660767912006-05-04T16:50:00.000-06:002006-05-04T16:50:00.000-06:00To be fair, gravity is actually the weakest force ...To be fair, gravity is actually the weakest force known.<BR/>There's the strong force (that nice little thing that holds protons together), the weak for (does something, not really sure what off the top of my head), the electromagnetic (does pretty much everything you can imagine), and gravity (keeps us on earth and makes galaxies interact).<BR/>If you do the math, the electromagnetic force is actually on the order of about 10^20 time stronger than gravity, or 100000000000000000000x that of gravity. The reason gravity is so prevalent in our universe is because not many things have electric charges strong enough to interact electromagnetically at cosmic distances, whereas things like black holes are so headache-inducingly massive that they can interact across galaxies. <BR/>Furthermore, the electromagnetic, weak and stron force have actually been found to have the same origin, known as the "electroweak" force (named for the unification of the electromagnetic and weak forces, the strong force was found to be included later and physicists hate remaning things... it's why electricity flows backwards) whilst gravity is still in a field of its own. To date, there's still not explanation for it that I know of (yes, gravitons, but they're nothing more than theory at this point) <BR/>So, yeah...<BR/>Any more physics questions?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21792850.post-1146780677188505682006-05-04T16:11:00.000-06:002006-05-04T16:11:00.000-06:00That reminds me of my husband's physics-related in...That reminds me of my husband's physics-related interjections. We were getting our pseudo-reverent fix of soft sunday sounds on the radio last week, and some song came up with the lyrics "stronger than gravity.." in the chorus. Oh how Mr. Renn went off about how gravity is actually a relatively weak force... you've got electromagnetism, strong nuclear force, etc.....<BR/>And suddenly sappy sunday radio is turned on its head by physics - love it!Emhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09174424401721373062noreply@blogger.com