NOM - Gathering Storm

"Besides what you say about surviving, why else love someone, when there is no point, why eat in order to live the next day-if there is no point in living, etc?"

Because it's built into us! The desire to live no matter what, to find a mate, to eat, all of those drives are, in the vast majority of people, more powerful than the existential sense of futility or hopelessness. Most people choose to go on living, even if they believe 100% that it's ultimately pointless.

what? Gravity is not a theory, but even if it was, why would the force itself need a different name?

Gravity is still a theory and therefore name it something else. If it's not proven then can it still be called gravity? Or should it be called something completely different until it's proven?

Then is should be used by a different word and not the word marriage as the first time it was mentioned was in the Bible back before everyone else was created. If you look up the word and research it, it's first definition is used referring to opposite sexes. They then added another def so as not to offend people.

Unbelievable.

@Yesdnyl99

dear yesdny199,

even if the moon does always show us the same lovely face - and i couldn´t care less if it does, i am not mooning over it, haha - this does by no way make it ok for anyone do deny another human being the right to marriage that we can enjoy ourselves.

I had this same question in... eighth grade. Sounds confusing at first, but is easily resolved. Gravitational pull from the Moon is equaled by the centrifugal force at the Earths' center of gravity. Centrifugal force is stronger on the side opposite and weaker than gravity on the side facing the Moon. In fact, things are even more complex since tidal forces of the Sun rival those of the Moon. If you are not a straw man, please read some books before embarrassing yourself.

I have never heard anyone with a degree in physics try to explain gravity by solar wind. Are you joking?

Thermodynamics deals with macroscopic description of microscopic behavior. While planets are subject to thermodynamics (including the Second Law), their orderly orbits are not. Unless you are a sockpuppet, this is exceedingly misinformed interpretation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. You are applying divorce law to an armed robbery, so to speak.

The existence of tides is often taken as a proof of gravity, but this is logically flawed. Because if the moon's gravity were responsible for a bulge underneath it, then how can anyone explain a high tide on the opposite side of the earth at the same time? Anyone can observe that there are 2 -- not 1 -- high tides every day. It is far more likely that tides were given us by an Intelligent Creator long ago and they have been with us ever since. In any case, two high tides falsifies gravity.