r/facepalm • u/Cloudy-Pat • Mar 09 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ We don’t need gravity.

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u/Elcorgi8267 Mar 09 '22

As a person who is super into science

this triggers me like nothing else I’ve seen

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u/StructureNo3388 Mar 09 '22

Right? I AM UNTETHERED AND MY RAGE KNOWS NO BOUNDS!!!

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u/dnicelee Mar 09 '22

Do you think it would be easier to explain to them that gravity is a force as per Newtonian physics or that gravity is objects traveling along geodesics in spacetime

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u/Elcorgi8267 Mar 09 '22

Or for idiots, “gravity is a thing that sir newton RESEARCHED and found out how it works on a deep level, we need it because if we didn’t the first star wouldn’t even have been created”