I think in his days the alleys were wood were as now they are synthetic i believe.
Rubber sheet bowling ball and tenis ball exparment.
I have my dads old rubber bowling ball conventional grip but fits me ok.
Both balls used in the experiment can be seen.
I have never like it as an analogy either.
In the cartoon image of einstein s explanation of gravity a rubber sheet is pulled tight and a bowling ball is placed in the middle.
But it still doesn t fall any faster.
If you can use the old rubber style how do they react on the new surfaces.
The bowling ball has a greater mass so it also has a greater gravitational force.
Can you use them on the new lanes.
The movement of a ball on a rubber sheet does not follow the geodesic trajectories predicted by gr.
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You can calculate this gravitational force as the product of the mass m and the gravitational field g.
Imagine a rubber sheet pulled taut horizontally and then tossing a bowling ball and a tennis ball onto it.
The distortions in the rubber sheet representing the distortions in space and time.
General relativity requires a curvature of space time not just space.
The ball placed in the centre of the trampoline was a bowling ball with a mass of 7 26 kg and a radius of 10 6 cm playing the role of a central mass or a star for planets to orbit around.
This is nothing at all like the way general relativity works.
If an object like a tennis ball is then thrown onto the rubber sheet the tennis ball will gravitate towards the bowling ball.
The heavier bowling ball sinks deeper and the tennis ball will move toward the bowling.
For instance we may feel that a bowling ball will fall faster than a marble yet gravity s hang on the lighter marble is similarly as solid as its hang on the heavier bowling ball and the two travel to the ground at the very same speed kajiyama.
The density of water is 1 0 g cm 3 so the 8 pound bowling ball floats because it is less dense than the water 67 1 0.
In the classic classroom rubber sheet demonstration the marble rolls toward the bowling ball because the earth s gravity causes it to roll down hill.
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In that sense gravity is pulling on it more.
