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I’ve Discovered Graverty

April 17th, 2007 · No Comments

Picture of apples in a basketI didn’t want to say anything before but over the last couple of weeks I’ve made a very interesting discovery:

Every time I’m sitting at the table and I’m playing with my toys, with a movement of my hand I can make them fall to the floor!

The first time this happened I was very surprised and not too sure what to make of it so I tried it again - my hand moved and toy fell! Encouraged by my discovery I found that whenever I held something in my hand (toy, dummy, spoon, Sky remote control) I could easily make it fall on the floor.

This got me thinking. There must be some force that makes toys fall to the ground and after a couple of week’s research I’ve decided to call this force graverty. The calculations I’ve made so far leads me to the belief that:

Every single point mass attracts every other point mass by a force pointing along the line combining the two. The force is proportional to the product of the two masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the point masses:
F = G \frac{m_1 m_2}{r^2}
F is the magnitude of the gravitational force between the two point masses
G is the gravitational constant
m1 is the mass of the first point mass
m2 is the mass of the second point mass
r is the distance between the two point masses

I’m not too sure what to do with my findings on graverty but I’ve made a startling sub-finding; anti-graverty.

Anti-graverty is the opposite effect of graverty. I throw toy from table - toy falls on floor - parent picks up toy and puts back on table. Therefore anti-graverty = parents.

I think that my findings about graverty and my calculations are accurate but to be sure, I’m going to test the theory by throwing my toys onto the floor another 120,972 times - or until anti-graverty’s back goes!!

Until next time, bye bye.

P.S. Daddy (or anti-graverty 2 as I now call him) says that Sir Isaac Newton discovered GRAVITY in 1687 when he was 44 years old. Big deal! I’m eight months and discovered it for myself!

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