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Old 29-April-2007, 07:40 PM
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Thank you for the response.
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Originally Posted by tusenfem View Post
BTW gravity does not give an object mass, it gives it weight.
Let me make the correction by editing the statement in post #2 from
“Gravity causes matter to attract matter giving matter its mass”, to say, “Gravity causes matter to attract matter giving matter its weight, and weight equals mass times the acceleration due to gravity.”
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Hmmm, looking at the mainstream equation of gravity I see a 1/R2 law, which means that the gravitational force first gets zero when R gets infinite. So, what is the shocking point here?
That is of course true, the reach of gravity is infinite in the mainstream as well as in the ISU. My point was that in the ISU there is a cause of the infinite reach of gravity which was the whole point of my thread.

What is the cause of the infinite reach of gravity in the mainstream?