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submitted 10 months ago by Aurelius to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 144 points 10 months ago (2 children)

To be fair, if you don't know about how gravity works, you would just hold up a rock, drop it, and say obviously things can move without someone moving it.

[–] qevlarr 70 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

And that objects in motion will stay in motion, but our experience with friction tells us otherwise. Ask any kid and they'll say from intuition that the object will stop

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No one really understands anything about Physics until you hear Fenyman explain it.

https://youtu.be/Ktt5VVEC8XA

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Mystic forces surround us!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Clearly it's buoyancy and something something equilibrium.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You mean luminiferous aether, right?

[–] blanketswithsmallpox 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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