Recent content by satipatana

Your analysis of my situation is in fact very accurate. I like the expression you use "rewire your common sense". I will follow your advice. Thanks a million, your words are very encouraging.

Now I got it. Keeping the distance by pushing stone A means the force applied will be always the same and the result of that is not that stone B will keep on moving t the same speed (as I first thought) but that it will accelerate. For you must be obvious but I must be honest: I has taken me a...

Your answer matches exactly my question. Actually it gives me much more to think about. I never thought that even if I keep pushing one stone to keep the distance the other would still accelerate. Thanks a lot for your patience!

They would move towards each other. That is what I think (eventhough I would not be surprise if you told me that the answer is no, my common sense seems not to be very useful sometimes). But what I am very curious about is: Would it be a movement that I could see with naked eyes?

Thanks for the quick reply! I am afraid I am not able to do the simplest calculations and even if I did I would have problems to understand the magnitudes, that is why I asked if the movement (if there is one) could be noticed by a human being. Trying to answer your question I guess everyday...

I am not good at maths but very passionate about physics (I know is sad). I am trying to imagine how strong (or weak) the force of gravity is, so I have this imaginary experiment: [BWe have to stones of, let's say, one kilo each floating in a void, separated by let's say one meter. In absence...