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| From | Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | sci.physics.relativity |
| Subject | Re: Why Should Gravitational Mass Equal Inertial Mass? |
| Date | 2017-02-08 08:44 -0600 |
| Organization | Aioe.org NNTP Server |
| Message-ID | <o7fass$1111$8@gioia.aioe.org> (permalink) |
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On 2/7/2017 7:30 PM, HGW... DSc. wrote: > On 08/02/17 09:50, Alan Folmsbee wrote: >> On Monday, February 6, 2017 at 11:10:47 PM UTC-10, HGW... DSc. wrote: > >>> That might be OK for gravity but consider the electrostatic equivalent. >>> A proton would fall towards a negatively charged object with twice the >>> acceleration as an ionized H atom. >>> We know that Einstein's gravitation theory differs from Newton's in that >>> a factor of two appears in much of the maths.(It was only added after he >>> feared that experimental evidence proved his original equations wrong). >>> >>> If it was ever shown that this 'two factor' did actually exist (a very >>> unlikely scenario), that would only suggest that light's inertial mass >>> was NOT equal to its gravitational mass. It behaves in gravity like the >>> proton does in an electric field. >> >> No experiment has shown an electron to cause gravity. > > Nobody suggested it did. > You have missed the point altogether. > >> Electrons have an inertial mass and no experiment has shown that >> electrons fall at a rate determined by gravity at 9.8 meter/second^2. >> >> Electrons do not have an equivalence principle in that sense. > > I was not talking about electrons falling in gravity. I was using the > analogy of an electron falling in an electrostatic field. What does "no experiment has shown that electrons fall at a rate DETERMINED BY GRAVITY at 9.8 meter/second^2" mean to you? > > Get it now? >> > > -- Odd Bodkin -- maker of fine toys, tools, tables
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Re: Why Should Gravitational Mass Equal Inertial Mass? moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2017-02-07 13:35 +0000
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Re: Why Should Gravitational Mass Equal Inertial Mass? Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2017-02-08 08:43 -0600
Re: Why Should Gravitational Mass Equal Inertial Mass? Gary Harnagel <hitlong@yahoo.com> - 2017-02-07 05:45 -0800
Re: Why Should Gravitational Mass Equal Inertial Mass? Alan Folmsbee <omnilobe@gmail.com> - 2017-02-07 14:50 -0800
Re: Why Should Gravitational Mass Equal Inertial Mass? Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2017-02-07 16:53 -0600
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Re: Why Should Gravitational Mass Equal Inertial Mass? Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2017-02-08 08:44 -0600
Re: Why Should Gravitational Mass Equal Inertial Mass? "HGW... DSc." <hgw@....> - 2017-02-09 05:41 +1100
Re: Why Should Gravitational Mass Equal Inertial Mass? Alan Folmsbee <omnilobe@gmail.com> - 2017-02-08 10:55 -0800
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Re: Why Should Gravitational Mass Equal Inertial Mass? moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2017-02-13 16:31 +0000
Re: Why Should Gravitational Mass Equal Inertial Mass? "HGW... DSc." <hgw@....> - 2017-02-14 08:45 +1100
Re: Why Should Gravitational Mass Equal Inertial Mass? moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2017-02-14 02:42 +0000
Re: Why Should Gravitational Mass Equal Inertial Mass? "Paul B. Andersen" <relativity@paulba.no> - 2017-02-14 20:44 +0100
Re: Why Should Gravitational Mass Equal Inertial Mass? "David (Lord Kronos Prime) Fuller" <fuller.david@hotmail.com> - 2017-02-14 12:23 -0800
Re: Why Should Gravitational Mass Equal Inertial Mass? "HGW... DSc." <hgw@....> - 2017-02-19 11:50 +1100
Re: Why Should Gravitational Mass Equal Inertial Mass? Gary Harnagel <hitlong@yahoo.com> - 2017-02-18 21:08 -0800
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