/sci/ - Science & Math

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You are observing an effect of an apparatus and immediately concluding it is proof of "gravity", whatever the fuck that is. You can't say the gravity is the attraction between the centres of mass (whatever the fuck that is), because Newtonian gravity has been replaced, so it now has to be an experiment showing mass curving "space-time" (whatever the fuck that is).

I might as well find a big magnet and a small magnet and say the big magnet's mass is curving space-time more than the small magnet's mass, causing the small magnet to be attracted to the big magnet.

"Mass" is meaningless, and ignores the physical make-up of the actual object. The Cavendish experiment uses lead balls, and lead is just as electrically static as cat's fur. Cavendish also worked on electrostatic attraction. The Cavendish experiment is just an old carnival trick like the Foucault pendulum.