this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2023
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The top shows Newton’s formula for calculating gravitational force between two bodies. The bottom shows Coulomb’s law for calculating the force between 2 electrically charged particles. The joke is that the Coulomb just copied the formulas from Newton’s that was published nearly a century earlier.
With how gravity isn't a force in general relativity meaning Newton's formula isn't technically correct in a general sense makes it funny Coulomb's "copied" formula turned out to be the correct one.
Isn't general relativity just a way to interpret reality instead of what reality is?
I mean, just a very accurate model of reality. But anything can be anything in any model, which is cool as long as the model has some kind of utility.
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Or, are we accepting that objectively gravity is definetely not a force?
Okay thank you!