Message from @jeremy
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Weight is just the force things experience towards the ground
yeah but dont we have satellites out there that are being affected by 3 bodies?
they must have solved a 3 body problem to have satellites no ?
Yes, the trick is to make some assumptions that simplify it
i know how they do with assumptions
It turns out that if one of the bodies is really small, like a satellite compared to a moon, you can consider the gravity of the satellite to be zero
And it becomes practically identical to a 2-body problem
ok what about the sun moon and earth how do u fit a satellite into those 3 bodies
remember the sun and moon are moving trillions of gallons of ocean water around earth right
but not the satellite
suspicious to say the least
Remember that the oceans have much bigger masses than satellites, so they experience a much bigger force
For all i know the sun and moon do distort the orbit by a few meters, I don't know
I have this one which is pretty funny
yeah im not buyin these cavendish experiments
Seems like the best thing you can do is test it yourself
If there's something you don't like about what other people have done, you can fix it
the oceans way more so gravtiy of the sun and moon affect it more that doesnt make sense to me
Well it's mass attracting mass remember
The more mass you have, the stronger the attraction
Me neither. If it was something that happened naturally we would see it everywhere
wouldnt u figure the less mass the more it would be affected
Who replaced ya? I thought ODD was in charge.
But with less mass comes less force
does anyone know the trig problem for how 2 people on earth calculate the distance to the sun ?
Where have you tried to observe it and failed @Rudi?
You need good precision to be able to do it properly
Great replacement? That is really sad. You were admins?
I've never observed mass attract mass in nature as such
@jeremy It comes from measuring the angle between the sun and moon at certain times of the month and doing trig with that
Where have you specifically tried to observe it?
we don't see big rocks roll together or nothing
Do we expect to?
The force is weak and would be overpowered by friction after all
If mass attracts mass yup
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It's important to look at what we should expect to see before declaring that it's not there
and we see it nowhere
Unless you get the precision you need to see it
that's your claim