Well damn all of you smart people!
I could see Wha was going to answer all of my questions after his first post. He bypassed the potential labrynth of misconceptions and went straight toward some truth. He even brought up this gravitational axis!
I tried to stray you all into other directions (easy to do on this one), and he brought us all back.
I believe the standard I was looking for does in fact exist, however it looks like an oxymoron. By this I mean it is relative. How can a standard be relative? A gravitational axis (thanks, Wha) will be true only for an object in its exact placement on the surface of a sphere. As I sit typing my 'x axis' runs vertically through my body down to the center of gravity's pull, and up infinitly (or at least until another mass's gravity takes over) into space. The 'y axis' ((aka the standard)) can be any line perpendicular to the 'x axis' on it's way up or down, yes... regardless of elevation.. Again this is relative because my 'x axis' is different from yours sitting at your computer now. In fact ours will meet at gravity's center and thus they can never be parallel. We do not share a gravitational axis, but we do of course share a source.
You are all too smart for 'explanation' type topics, I think next Tuesday I will have to go for another perspective based dilema. If anyone has any good ideas for a topic, please pmail it to me here on the site. I am always looking for good conversation and these topics are meant to instigate it. So far I am really happy with the results: good participation and respect for other's remarks. Keep it up everyone!
Beastie
ps. Gravitational Comic Relief:
yo mama's fat... not JUST fat, but soooo fat... she may just be the gravitational center to the universe... that is I am in theory closer to her right now than I am to this computer monitor as I stare at it... and she is hundreds of miles away! Talk about big bang, I am friggin orbitting your obese mass of a mother as I type!
Your mother swallows up BLACK HOLES! ..... she... ok I am done If anyone knows John Ellis, say hello for me.. most of that is his B)
I could see Wha was going to answer all of my questions after his first post. He bypassed the potential labrynth of misconceptions and went straight toward some truth. He even brought up this gravitational axis!
I tried to stray you all into other directions (easy to do on this one), and he brought us all back.
I believe the standard I was looking for does in fact exist, however it looks like an oxymoron. By this I mean it is relative. How can a standard be relative? A gravitational axis (thanks, Wha) will be true only for an object in its exact placement on the surface of a sphere. As I sit typing my 'x axis' runs vertically through my body down to the center of gravity's pull, and up infinitly (or at least until another mass's gravity takes over) into space. The 'y axis' ((aka the standard)) can be any line perpendicular to the 'x axis' on it's way up or down, yes... regardless of elevation.. Again this is relative because my 'x axis' is different from yours sitting at your computer now. In fact ours will meet at gravity's center and thus they can never be parallel. We do not share a gravitational axis, but we do of course share a source.
You are all too smart for 'explanation' type topics, I think next Tuesday I will have to go for another perspective based dilema. If anyone has any good ideas for a topic, please pmail it to me here on the site. I am always looking for good conversation and these topics are meant to instigate it. So far I am really happy with the results: good participation and respect for other's remarks. Keep it up everyone!
Beastie
ps. Gravitational Comic Relief:
yo mama's fat... not JUST fat, but soooo fat... she may just be the gravitational center to the universe... that is I am in theory closer to her right now than I am to this computer monitor as I stare at it... and she is hundreds of miles away! Talk about big bang, I am friggin orbitting your obese mass of a mother as I type!
Your mother swallows up BLACK HOLES! ..... she... ok I am done If anyone knows John Ellis, say hello for me.. most of that is his B)