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re: Does gravity have an infinite range?

Posted on 1/26/16 at 9:29 am to
Posted by dcrews
Houston, TX
Member since Feb 2011
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Posted on 1/26/16 at 9:29 am to
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I've often heard the universe compared to the inside of a balloon that's being blown up.


What's outside of the balloon?
Posted by UpToPar
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2008
23099 posts
Posted on 1/26/16 at 9:37 am to
I would say that gravity does have an infinite range. Just that when you move far enough away from large objects (planets) the gravitational pull from those large objects is overcome by the gravitational pull of other objects whether they be large (other planets) or small (space shuttle).
Posted by MikeBRLA
Baton Rouge
Member since Jun 2005
17243 posts
Posted on 1/26/16 at 10:39 am to
I don't know about gravity, but the answer to that formula is always 288.
Posted by CptRusty
Basket of Deplorables
Member since Aug 2011
11740 posts
Posted on 1/26/16 at 10:46 am to
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How many mass extinctions have there been?

FTR, the answer is 3, 5, 8, or 11 depending on your perspective.



I prefer counting from the emergence of one integral anomaly to the emergence of the next, in which case this is the sixth version.
Posted by Knight of Old
New Hampshire
Member since Jul 2007
13204 posts
Posted on 1/26/16 at 11:15 am to
There is no gravity, the earth sucks.
Posted by Dam Guide
Member since Sep 2005
16797 posts
Posted on 1/26/16 at 11:18 am to
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Does gravity have an infinite range?


I'm an engineer not a physicist, that shite gets to 0 for all I am concerned...
Posted by AUveritas
Member since Aug 2013
3938 posts
Posted on 1/26/16 at 11:49 am to
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What's outside of the balloon?


That's the current debate. The multiple universe theory seems to be gaining ground. So, according to the popular science of the day, other balloons.
Posted by BamaChemE
Midland, TX
Member since Feb 2012
7695 posts
Posted on 1/26/16 at 12:07 pm to
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If we can't put a limit on microparticles (nanoparticles?) how can there be a quantifiable unit of gravity?


There technically is a limit (at least for what is considered "observable") It's called a Planck length, and it's the distance light can travel in one Planck time, which is the time it takes a photon moving at the speed of light to travel one Planck length.



Have fun with the circular nature of those definitions.
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