Gravitational force is never truly zero. If it has mass, it is pulling at you, though it may be so close to zero that you don’t realize it.

  • radix@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Any given star is constantly emitting an unimaginably large, but finite, number of photons. A tiny few of them travel tens to hundreds of (Earth) years, only to end their journey in your eyeballs.

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    8 months ago

    Technically correct, but the gravity from stars is dwarfed by the gravity from yo momma.

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      8 months ago

      While you are affected by gravity, it’d have less of an effect than other things.

      For instance we can scientifically show your birth date does influence your personality, as long as you don’t live on the equator.

      The further North/South you go, the more pronounced the effect becomes.

      That is to say that from large samplings, you can see that extroverted traits are more common with babies born in Spring (in the Northern hemisphere), while introversion is more associated with being born in autumn.

      That ofc doesn’t mean that a person who was born in November will automatically be less extroverted than one born in March, but if you pick two random people from those groups, it’s X% more likely that it is so.

      Astrology is complete fucking bullshit though.

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    8 months ago

    Wait, I thought gravity is not a “force” but the curvature of spacetime, so at some point the curvature gotta end or be disturbed by some other source nearby, right? A star so far away is not exerting any “force” on me as I already have two massive objects Earth and Sun twisting the spacetime around me so much. I could however be getting some gravitational waves from that star but not sure how strong they’d be or if they reach me at all (again given Sun and Earth).

    (NOTE: I’m an engineer not a physicist so my understanding could all be wrong)