Aquamantra - Amazing anti-gravity properties

[fls]

Forget selling water for its positive attraction effects. I think Alexandra could get more mileage from promoting its anti-gravity effects. (Check out the picture)

Linda

[Ivor the Engineer]

The wonders of photoshop:)

[Jon.]

Water's antigravity properties are not a new discovery. Man has been taking advantage of them for thousands of years. They're called boats.

[Fnord]

Woo Alert!

Claim: Water has no anti-gravity effect.
Proof: (1) Drop an object while on board a submerged submarine and observe which direction it falls. It should fall towards the center of the Earth. (2) Weigh an object on dry land, then weigh it in a submerged submarine; the weights will remain the same. (3) Weigh a woman when she is not "retaining water" and again when she is. Note that she weighs more when she "retains water."

Either water has no anti-gravity effects, or those effects are far to small to be measured.

[Baron Samedi]

Good eye on that! Now I really want some of that water!!! :D

[wahrheit]

What picture?! I can't see nuttin. :dio:

ETA: Oh, you meant the commentary picture, where she holds the glass not level. Got it.

[Jon.]

Woo Alert!

Claim: Water has no anti-gravity effect.
Proof: (1) Drop an object while on board a submerged submarine and observe which direction it falls. It should fall towards the center of the Earth. (2) Weigh an object on dry land, then weigh it in a submerged submarine; the weights will remain the same. (3) Weigh a woman when she is not "retaining water" and again when she is. Note that she weighs more when she "retains water."

Either water has no anti-gravity effects, or those effects are far to small to be measured.


Of course water has an anti-gravity effect. Buoyancy, a property of water, can, under the proper conditions, counteract gravity, which is pulling all objects downward.

[Fnord]

Of course water has an anti-gravity effect. Buoyancy, a property of water, can, under the proper conditions, counteract gravity, which is pulling all objects downward.


Uhh... Jon? Gravity is not affected. The bouyancy of water and the solidity of concrete both block only the motion of an object that would otherwise be imposed upon that object be gravity.

What you think of as "Anti-Gravity" is only the imposition of solid or liquid matter between two other pieces of matter. There is no change in mass or weight, so there is no change in gravity.

However, I am interested in your gravimetric theories, provided there is some real science behind them.

[Jon.]

Uhh... Jon? Gravity is not affected. The bouyancy of water and the solidity of concrete both block only the motion of an object that would otherwise be imposed upon that object be gravity.

What you think of as "Anti-Gravity" is only the imposition of solid or liquid matter between two other pieces of matter. There is no change in mass or weight, so there is no change in gravity.

However, I am interested in your gravimetric theories, provided there is some real science behind them.

I didn't say that gravity was affected - only that it was counteracted. In that sense, a flight of stairs, a ladder and an airplane have anti-gravity effects: purely physical effects that counteract (not remove or affect) the force of gravity.

I was, of course, trying to point out the wooly nature of the word "anti-gravity". It, like so many words used by woo-woo types, can be used to mean something different from what we expect it to mean, but still something true.

[Fnord]

I didn't say that gravity was affected - only that it was counteracted. In that sense, a flight of stairs, a ladder and an airplane have anti-gravity effects: purely physical effects that counteract (not remove or affect) the force of gravity.

I was, of course, trying to point out the wooly nature of the word "anti-gravity". It, like so many words used by woo-woo types, can be used to mean something different from what we expect it to mean, but still something true.

Then ... sorta like the term "Anti-Christ" could mean anything from "Islamic Fundamentalist" to "Atheist" to "Pharisee" to "Heretic" to "the one whose name has the value of 666."

Strictly speaking, I use "Anti-Gravity" to mean a non-material force that works to cancel out a local gravity field and/or a non-material force that acts to repel matter and energy. In other words, a staple "gimmick" of many far-future science-fiction stories.

[Jon.]

Then ... sorta like the term "Anti-Christ" could mean anything from "Islamic Fundamentalist" to "Atheist" to "Pharisee" to "Heretic" to "the one whose name has the value of 666."

Strictly speaking, I use "Anti-Gravity" to mean a non-material force that works to cancel out a local gravity field and/or a non-material force that acts to repel matter and energy. In other words, a staple "gimmick" of many far-future science-fiction stories.

This illustrates the necessity of defining terms clearly before entering into debate. I'm not going to quibble over your definition, because I think I've made my point.

Lateral thinking rules. ;)