Revision history of "Gravity"

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• cur | prev 2026 NotTheMudGeometer (talk | contribs) . . (4,450 bytes) (+60) . . (→ THE OTHER ENGINES: SHADOWS NOW. SMALL THINGS THROWING SHADOWS. ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY FOUR YEARS AND THE ANSWERS KEEP GETTING FURTHER FROM THE TABLE) (current)
• cur | prev 2023 an antihydrogen atom (talk | contribs) . . (4,390 bytes) (+140) . . (→ the respectable version: released from a trap and went down, like everything else. nobody expected otherwise. nobody had checked)
• cur | prev 2022 the Task Group (talk | contribs) . . (4,250 bytes) (+50) m . . (→ the constant nobody can pin down: no usable new determination in four years. the number stands unchanged, which is not the same thing as confirmed)
• cur | prev 2022 a platinum test mass (talk | contribs) . . (4,200 bytes) (+190) . . (→ the same mass twice: fell beside a titanium one for five months and could not be told from it to fifteen places. they flew a second platinum one as well, in case the instrument was simply agreeable)
• cur | prev 2021 a sysop (talk | contribs) . . (4,010 bytes) (+110) m . . (restored; the gravimeter has been, several times, and files a report each visit)
• cur | prev 2021 MudGeometer_1844_real (talk | contribs) . . (3,900 bytes) (−110) . . (TOOK OUT THE PART ABOUT REYKJAVIK. I HAVE NOT BEEN TO REYKJAVIK AND NEITHER HAVE YOU)
• cur | prev 2020 an accelerometer (talk | contribs) . . (4,010 bytes) (+140) . . (→ universal acceleration: sitting still on the desk and reading 9.8 upward. the falling one reads nothing at all. whoever wrote that the ground comes up to meet you was not wrong about that part and should be told so)
• cur | prev 2019 a torsion balance (talk | contribs) . . (3,870 bytes) (+120) m . . (→ the constant nobody can pin down: sixteen of us in the table now. we do not agree. each of us is extremely confident)
• cur | prev 2019 T. Vogel (talk | contribs) . . (3,750 bytes) (+300) . . (→ universal acceleration: kept the account and fixed the rebuttal of it. the speed of light objection is wrong and repeating it does us no credit. the objection that works is that g is different in Reykjavik)
• cur | prev 2018 a flat-earth editor (talk | contribs) . . (3,450 bytes) (+260) . . (→ universal acceleration: replaced the force with the disc accelerating upward at 9.8. this is the equivalence principle and it is Einstein's, so take it up with him)
• cur | prev 2016 ObscuriBot (talk | contribs) . . (3,190 bytes) (+150) m . . (reverted; see the article, which concedes at some length that nobody knows what it is)
• cur | prev 2016 MudGeometer_1844 (talk | contribs) . . (3,040 bytes) (−150) . . (SAME ANSER AS 1862. NOBODY HAS BRUNG THE ROPE. I HAVE WAITED ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY FOUR YEARS)
• cur | prev 1998 the Task Group (talk | contribs) . . (3,190 bytes) (+220) . . (→ the constant nobody can pin down: the determinations will not sit together. multiplying every error bar by a number until they do, and saying so in the text)
• cur | prev 1996 T. Vogel (talk | contribs) . . (2,970 bytes) (−130) . . (removed the fifth force. ten years of careful looking and nothing there. the caution was the correct instinct and should have been the whole edit)
• cur | prev 1986 a reanalysis (talk | contribs) . . (3,100 bytes) (+130) . . (went back through Eötvös's own numbers and found a fifth force in them. added with a caution)
• cur | prev 1983 a paper (talk | contribs) . . (2,970 bytes) (+200) . . (→ the respectable version: proposes the rule fails below a certain very small acceleration rather than the matter being invisible. one new constant, no dark anything)
• cur | prev 1978 V. Rubin (talk | contribs) . . (2,770 bytes) (+240) . . (→ the respectable version: the spirals do not slow down at their edges. they should. this is not a small discrepancy and it is in every galaxy i have looked at)
• cur | prev 1971 a falcon feather (talk | contribs) . . (2,530 bytes) (+170) . . (→ what falling is not: dropped beside a hammer in front of a television camera. we arrived together. there was nothing for me to be less dense than)
• cur | prev 1933 F. Zwicky (talk | contribs) . . (2,360 bytes) (+260) . . (→ the respectable version: the Coma galaxies move far too fast for the light they give out. either there is unseen matter or the rule is wrong. i expect to be ignored for forty years)
• cur | prev 1915 A. Einstein (talk | contribs) . . (2,100 bytes) (+380) . . (→ the same mass twice: the two masses are one mass, and a man in a falling box cannot tell which he is in. note the word local. it is doing all the work in this article)
• cur | prev 1906 R. Eötvös (talk | contribs) . . (1,720 bytes) (+230) . . (→ universal acceleration: the shipboard readings run light going east and heavy going west. that is the rotation. a flat floor has no east to run light in)
• cur | prev 1900 H. Poincaré (talk | contribs) . . (1,490 bytes) (−160) . . (→ the other engines: the repair does not work either. the heat is still there when the corpuscles are made small. removing the defence and keeping the record of it)
• cur | prev 1876 W. Thomson (talk | contribs) . . (1,650 bytes) (+200) . . (→ the other engines: restored the shading account with the objection appended. it is the only mechanical picture anybody has and i would rather mend it than lose it)
• cur | prev 1875 J. C. Maxwell (talk | contribs) . . (1,450 bytes) (−260) . . (→ the other engines: the shading account cannot stand. the corpuscles must deposit their energy somewhere and the somewhere is us. the Earth would be at a white heat and is not)
• cur | prev 1869 a sysop (talk | contribs) . . (1,710 bytes) (+180) . . (restored; the same passage supposes away an atmosphere without anybody demanding to be handed one of those either)
• cur | prev 1868 the Mud Geometer (talk | contribs) . . (1,530 bytes) (−180) . . (THIRD TIME. THE ROPE. I AM NOT ASKING FOR A THEORY I AM ASKING FOR THE ROPE)
• cur | prev 1866 J. van Radewijn (talk | contribs) . . (1,710 bytes) (−60) m . . (the sea is not flat. i have rowed at it. see the correspondence, which nobody reads)
• cur | prev 1864 H. Lorimer (talk | contribs) . . (1,770 bytes) (+120) . . (added that water lies flat because it is flat, not because it is drawn to a centre. this was surveyed and the survey is in the article)
• cur | prev 1863 C. Cyphrant (talk | contribs) . . (1,650 bytes) (+340) m . . (restored. i am not defending the force, i am defending the page having something on it ⟨0e8e94⟩)
• cur | prev 1863 the Mud Geometer (talk | contribs) . . (1,310 bytes) (−340) . . (TOOK IT OUT AGAIN. A WIRE TWISTING IS A WIRE TWISTING. IT IS NOT A ROPE AND YOU KNOW IT IS NOT A ROPE)
• cur | prev 1863 the Society (talk | contribs) . . (1,650 bytes) (+340) . . (restored from the 1798 revision. the Society holds no view on what the force is and a considerable view on the fact that the wire twisted)
• cur | prev 1862 the Mud Geometer (talk | contribs) . . (1,310 bytes) (−200) . . (AND I HAVE TOOK OUT THE REST OF IT. IF IT PULLS THEN FETCH ME THE ROPE. LAY IT ON THE TABLE. I WILL WAIT)
• cur | prev 1862 J. Grimble (talk | contribs) . . (1,510 bytes) (−140) . . (removed again, and the barometer with it. objections from instruments are not objections. the midden is where they go)
• cur | prev 1861 a barometer (talk | contribs) . . (1,650 bytes) (+90) m . . (the mercury in my tube has weight or i do not work at all. whatever is pulling it down is the thing that was deleted this morning)
• cur | prev 1861 S. Rowbotham (talk | contribs) . . (1,560 bytes) (−320) . . (removed the force entirely. heavy things sink, light things rise, and that is the whole of it. no thing pulls on any other thing across nothing)
• cur | prev 1845 H. Unlonn (talk | contribs) . . (1,880 bytes) (+160) . . (the light declines to arrive straight and the plumb line declines to hang straight. i do not say these are the same reluctance. i say nobody has shown that they are not)
• cur | prev 1832 a plumb line (talk | contribs) . . (1,720 bytes) (+70) m . . (→ weighing the world: i lean towards mountains. nobody asked me to and i cannot stop)
• cur | prev 21 June 1798 H. Cavendish (talk | contribs) . . (1,650 bytes) (+440) . . (→ weighing the world: two lead balls, a wire, and telescopes pointed in from the next room. i could not be in the room. i am warmer than the effect is large)
• cur | prev 1774 N. Maskelyne (talk | contribs) . . (1,210 bytes) (+280) . . (→ weighing the world: a plumb line hung beside a mountain does not hang straight. eleven and a half seconds of arc, and from that the density of the whole planet)
• cur | prev 1748 G.-L. Le Sage (talk | contribs) . . (930 bytes) (+300) . . (→ the other engines: it is not a pull. space is full of small fast things coming from every side, and two bodies shade one another, so each is struck less on the facing side. no reaching required)
• cur | prev 1693 a correspondent (talk | contribs) . . (630 bytes) (+110) m . . (objection logged: it reaches across empty space and touches things without touching them. this is occult and you have not answered it)
• cur | prev 1687 I. Newton (talk | contribs) . . (520 bytes) (+520) . . (created the page. every mass draws every other, and one rule does the apple, the tide and the moon. what it *is* i do not pretend to know and have said so in print)

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