Yes. The 'bad hair day' theory of gravity. 'It goes something like this: your hair frizzles in the heat and humidity, because there are more ways for your hair to be curled than to be straight, and nature likes options. So it takes a force to pull hair straight and eliminate natures options. Forget curved space or the spooky attraction at a distance described by Isaac Newtons equations well enough to let us navigate the rings of Saturn, the force we call gravity is simply a byproduct of natures propensity to maximize disorder.'
From: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/science/13gravity.html?src=mv Brent martinbaxt...@gmail.com wrote: >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >From: Martin Baxter <martin.baxter....@gmail.com> >Date: Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 3:54 PM >Subject: Eccentric but brilliant physicist claims gravity doesn't exist >To: martinbaxt...@gmail.com > > >Even as I post this, I feel compelled to say that this is a post from a >new Siffy-powered site and that, IMO, that association renders this and >all other things reported that as null and void, being too far divorced >from reality... > >========================================================================================================== > >Eccentric but brilliant physicist claims gravity doesn't exist >Eccentric but brilliant physicist claims gravity doesn't exist >Stephen Hawking experiences weightlessness in a jet >7Share > >I know that something is keeping me from floating off as I type away at >this keyboard, but thanks to Erik Verlinde, a string theorist and >professor of physics at the University of Amsterdam, I no longer know >what. But I'm not the only one feeling a little, well, adrift right now. > >According to an article in the NY Times, "Some of the best physicists in >the world say they don't understand Dr. Verlinde's paper." Which makes us >feel a little better that we don't either. > >That paper, "On the Origin of Gravity and the Laws of Newton," claims >that gravity is an illusion. > > >More at: http://blastr.com/2010/07/eccentric-but-brilliant-p.php > > >-- >"Between getsumei no michi and the Zero...no better place to live." > >(About little moments of happiness) "If this isn't nice, I don't know >what is." -- Kurt Vonnegut, "A Man Without A Country" >
