Anyone know of a good website that describes gravity, and maybe the history of the topic? (Who first came up with the idea, how it has evolved to our definition of it now, etc). Thanks!

These sites give fairly good explanations w/o getting deep into the math:

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~...elativity.html

http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/vvc/theory/gravity.html

These give a short history and a timeline:

http://www.curtin.edu.au/curtin/dept...ry/history.htm

http://www.gsu.edu/other/timeline/gravity.html

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For an alternate view with a similar long history Look for the Book "Pushing Gravity" coming out pretty soon. I have a paper in it. It gives a history of Lesage's and Brush's ideas on what causes gravity. It sorta talks about "why" there's gravity in addition to "how" it works like Newton described. Science usually doesn't look into why.

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http://www.duke.edu/~bis/gravity/
http://www.gravity.pd.uwa.edu.au/
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Gravity smells green, to me.

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Actually, it smells beige. Phwooie.
http://unisci.com/stories/20021/0308023.htm

I am still amazed to no end that the color of the universe matches that of the walls of my room. Go figure...


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Only at night, in the dark.

Or buy and read Stephen Hawkings "A Brief History of Time".

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