Message from @jeremy
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gravity didnt pull the mass back down though
That's because of buoyancy
are u a flat earther
i thought gravity made mass fall
The balloon contains a gas less dense than air at the given altitude which produces a strong enough force that it counteracts gravity
That's not what gravity does.
gravity makes objects with mass attract each other due to the mass alone
Incorrect.
oh
hows it work
A gravitational potential well is created by any particle with a non-zero mass-momentum-stress tensor
wait whos theory of gravity are u using
that doesnt sound like newton
ill tell u what fig newtons are delicious
It isn't. Newtonian physics don't apply to minkowski space for special relativity.
ok
That's why we don't use Newtonian physics because they don't sufficiently explain gravity in its fullest form
where did ur insane definition of gravity come from ?
Particle physics and quantum mechanics.
thats like theoretical science ?
Not all of it
No, why would you think it's theoretical?
quantam mechanics ? i thought that was theoretical
It isn't.
The calculations are.
so some of it is theory ?
But the predictions of the calculations are put very much into practice.
Theory backed up with proof and experimentation that show it to be true
but not facts?
jsut theory ?
Theory that is shown to be true, ergo it is fact
Science doesn't deal with facts per se
so none of it is theory ?
gotta run later guys
Or do you want to keep sliding them goalposts
Oh, convenient that
Science constructs predictions based on calculations, observations and experiments
To give you a concrete example, according to radioactive decay theory, this Sr-90 probe has a β- decay. This means that after a certain amount of time, a neutron will decay into a proton by emitting an Electron, conserving electrical share, and an election anti-neutrino, conserving the lepton number. *In theory* if you put Sr-90 into a magnetic field, the electrons emitted should follow the magnetic lines into the desired direction. Depending on the strength of the magnetic field you can also determine the energy of the electrons.
Now the point of all this is because this is *literally* how we detect beta decay using certain Geiger counters. So clearly, the theory works both on paper and in experiments