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Old 03-July-2009, 04:58 PM
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Originally Posted by AstroRockHunter View Post
If this is true and gravity is not attractive then how could the sun and the moon effect the ocean tides here on earth?
For that matter, how do orbits work? What makes objects in orbit around Earth follow paths that curve around the planet? Everything would follow straight-line paths until it gets splattered over the surface of a faster-expanding object.