16/12/2025
🚨🚨🚨Now, as we've seen already. James Hawke seems to simply drop assertions into a fish-bowl echo chamber and everyone must simply accept this as truth. Here, as usual, he simply asserts claims out of thin air into cyberspace with incredibly high levels of confidence that will even make the founding members of QAnon blush, and complete disregard for centuries of verifiable evidence and rigorously acquired data that established the law of gravity as one of the fundamental forces of our universe. 🚨🚨🚨
Apparently gravity was now "invented" by sci-fi movies and cartoons as a cause for our "spheres in the sky, guess". Because, you know, a theory isn't at all a robust explanation of natural observations based on the best verifiable, testable and repeatable evidence we have. It's all just made up s**t to suit our need for pointless conspiracies, because...
**Gravity predates Sci-Fi**
Long before space cartoons, Star Trek, Star Wars (just covering all my bases) or amazing space graphics from EVE Online, Newton showed that the same force that made an apple fall also predicts the planetary movements/orbits with very high precision. His universal law of gravity quantitatively explained Kepler's earlier measurements of planetary motion and successfully predicted new phenomena. So science is accepted norm because it "f*king works! B!tches". Not because we needed something to prop up some "sphere in the sky" story.
**Direct measurements of Gravity**
Gravity is not just “things falling”; its strength between known masses has been directly measured in the lab. In 1798 Cavendish used a torsion balance to detect the tiny attraction between lead spheres and calculate the gravitational constant, a method that modern versions still use.
Modern gravimeters can detect small changes in local gravity due to geology or altitude, and tests from towers and mines show that gravity follows the same inverse‑square law over large height ranges.
**Predictions that could have failed (but didn't - falsifiability)**
Einstein’s general relativity treated gravity as spacetime curvature and made risky predictions: light bending near the Sun, tiny shifts in Mercury’s orbit, the slowing of time in stronger gravity, and gravitational waves. These were later confirmed by observations such as Eddington’s 1919 eclipse measurements (Einstein and Eddington-David Tennant and Andy Serkis: Watch it!), GPS clock corrections that must include relativity to work accurately, and the 2015 detection of gravitational waves by LIGO from merging black holes, with waveforms matching Einstein’s predictive equations.
**Technology that requires gravity to be real**
In modern life we quietly double‑checks gravity every day. Satellites stay in orbit and deliver GPS, weather data, and communications only because engineers use Newton’s and Einstein’s equations to get their trajectories and timing right. Hell without them we would never have made it to the moon and back, we would never have placed a rover and helicopter on Mars and SpaceX would never have been able to create rockets that can take off and land again. If gravity were just a story, those systems would fail catastrophically instead of working to meter‑level accuracy around the globe. But since mr. Hawke here is a flat Earther and probably would also assert that space is fake, I doubt he would accept any of this as evidence for gravity.
**Why his pseudo-intellectual Hawk logic fails**
Calling gravity “invented” confuses “we gave it a name and equation” with “we made it up”. Scientists infer unseen causes from consistent, testable effects; gravity is the label for a pattern that keeps passing tests, and the models are constantly checked against new data. Dismissing that as fiction while using technologies that rely on gravity is not skepticism, it is cherry‑picking the benefits of science while rejecting the methods that made those benefits possible. Over and above that, simply asserting claims without evidence to support them is an argument from ignorance.
