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Justin, you are a troll. You get off on dissenting scientific theory. You are anti-science. You contribute nothing to scientific debate. I hate you.
Justin, watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMFPe-DwULM
I watched the link. Nice break down of the complexity of answering scientific questions to the general public…
Where I have dissenting opinions about what science will ultimately discover lay in areas in which the public (and scientists too) have assumed an answer to exist… yet one does not, or serious questions remain un-answered.
Gravity is not a answered by waves, gravitons or the HIggs Boson… those are all areas of investigation, questions that have been put forward as place holders, as though defining magnets as acting like “rubber bands” in Feynmans example, they answer nothing until proven.
I agree with Jacksonfly. Public and common knowledge of gravity is assumed to be complete, whereas we don’t actually know that much about it, in specific terms (such as why gravity exists/what causes it to exist).
Our view of gravity is still very much magical. You might say, “No, Newton finally put all that supernatural hubbub to rest and then Einstein even further.” These ideas don’t answer where gravity comes from, they merely more accurately define how a mysterious force acts large bodies of mass. Even then, gravity is assumed to be an innate trait of mass. Gravity just is what it is because that’s what it does!
In the end though, we just have to go with what we know. We should just keep in mind that if we don’t find evidence for all of these theories, there are plenty of other avenues to go down.