Recent content by Ron Hargrove

What I am looking for is historically verified observations that prove a barycenter rotation and not calculated and projected tables.

Yet again, my only question was whether anyone reading this thread was aware of experimental proof that an EM barycenter exists instead of just the theory that an EM barycenter exists which does not appear to exist to the knowledge of anyone who has read this thread.

That has not been my experience. While there are a few Mensa members around with delusions of superiority the vast majority are just common folks with brains that won't shut down or notice immediately when things don't add up. I like to say that a Mensan is just as likely to leave the house with...

The "bogus" part referenced accepting an idea just because everyone else does without proof that it is valid. That is how everyone came to believe the Earth was the center of the universe. Your post has led me to learn of the Richard Feynman examined the Fatio/Lesage mechanism which may give me...

Of course, a barycenter is not a measurable point. But rotating around a barycenter would cause a "wobble" as the Earth rotates around that barycenter as it chugs along in its orbit which I feel should be able to be detected somehow. Yet again, I am only trying to find out if anyone is aware of...

No. This was just in casual conversation. I would assume that if the EM were rotating around a barycenter it would cause some sort of observable deviation from a smooth transit across the sky for, at least Mars and Venus. My friend was actually writing her doctoral thesis on gravity being a push...

The root of the matter is in the universal acceptance of Newton's law of universal gravitation which, to simplify, pulls objects toward the center of the Earth and that all objects with mass attract each other. This argument may be fundamentally flawed. I and at least one other Mensan in my...

I see that the answer is no. Sorry to have bothered you all.

You are giving explanations for a question that was not asked. I did not ask how gravity works, general relativity, Newtonian gravity, or theorem. I am merely asking for my own research purposes if anyone is aware of any experiments that prove the existence of what is a universally accepted...

My problem with our current understanding of gravity started with that blasted simulation of the mass of the Earth warping space/time to create gravity. You know the one. It looks like a bowling ball on a sheet of rubber with a satellite falling into the well that creates an orbit around the...

My question is merely has it been PROVED or is it just a universal assumption? "Newtonian gravity requires that two bodies revolving around each other have a common centre of mass." -only if gravity is proven to be a pulling force between the two bodies that forms the bond.

Sorry that I was not clearer. I am looking for proof that gravity is an internal pulling force between the Earth and the Moon that is locking them together and causing them to rotate as a unit around the barycenter of the two masses. I cannot find a single example of someone proving that the...

I am just an old guy with physics questions looking for help from the hive intellect.

I am having difficulty located experimental or observational proof that a barycenter exists between the Earth and Moon. All I can find seems to just assume that a barycenter exists because the Moon revolves around the Earth based on the assumption that the Earth and Moon are tied as a unit with...