On 9/16/2016 1:02 PM, kenseto wrote:
> On Friday, September 16, 2016 at 10:56:57 AM UTC-4, Odd Bodkin wrote:
>> On 9/16/2016 9:10 AM, kenseto wrote:
>>> On Friday, September 16, 2016 at 9:49:47 AM UTC-4, Odd Bodkin wrote:
>>>> On 9/16/2016 7:59 AM, kenseto wrote:
>>>>> The following experiment will demonstrate gravity between masses:
>>>>> 1. A glass of water with a ping pong ball floating in the center of it.
>>>>> 2. move the glass near a mountain you will see that the ball will move to the
>>>>> near side of the glass toward the mountain.
>>>>
>>>> LOL. Have you actually done this experiment?
>>>
>>> Why the LOL? I read somewhere (I don'ts recall where) this experiment was performed.
>>
>> If you don't remember where you read it, then you also do not remember
>> accurately what you read.
>
> does that mean that you read it and that's why you said that I do not remember
> accurately what I read?
Ken, I did a search for this experiment you claimed to have read about.
Nothing came up.
However, ping pong balls floating on water are subject to non-flatness
of the surface due to meniscus curvature and surface ripples, as well as
convection currents in the water, and these are far larger than any
gravitational differential due to a nearby mountain. A back of the hand
calculation shows this.
You didn't read any such experiment. You made it up.