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    A Logical View Of Gravity
    A Logical View Of Gravity
    A Logical View Of Gravity
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    A Logical View Of Gravity

    By Bill Kercher

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    Have you ever wondered just what it is that holds us all so firmly to the ground? Obviously it’s gravity. But what exactly is gravity? At first glance, it seems as if that question should be easy to answer, but it’s one of the most difficult questions out there. I’ve wondered about gravity for a very long time. I’ve read books and science magazines that focus on that subject. The interesting thing is that after I finished reading, I still didn’t know what gravity actually was. Put simply, when I drop my pen, why does it fall to the ground? When NASA launches a satellite, what force pulls it into an orbit and keeps it from flying off into space. None of the books and magazines I’ve read covered the subject on that level.

    A Logical View Of Gravity takes a look at gravity, with the idea of answering those questions. The book begins with the most basic of views. I examine that fundamental idea of gravity and put it into an easy to understand language with easy to understand images. I then build, logical idea upon logical idea, until the question, what is gravity, has been answered. With the question of why gravity pulls us toward the surface of the Earth, the way gravity works is expanded to discussions of how gravity affects, and is affected by, some of the most exotic concepts in modern cosmology – Black Holes, Multiple Universes and Dark Energy.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBill Kercher
    Release dateApr 25, 2016
    ISBN9781310831621
    A Logical View Of Gravity
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    Bill Kercher

    After high school, I spent four years in the Air Force as a Medic. Following my discharge, I attended Wright State University, where I earned a Master of Science degree in geology. I then entered the oil industry in Houston, Texas, as a Petroleum Geologist. My career in the oil industry ended during a period of unusually low oil prices. I took that as a sign from above to try something new. So, I did something that I had been doing as a hobby for years - writing. I scratched that particular itch and, I took up writing. With my novels, short stories, a book discussing my ideas on gravity and a book on managing diabetes, this life switch has taken hold. My various career venues have played a large part in writing both my fiction and my non-fiction. There isn't one scene, event or character in my books that is not impacted by events in my life. The cliche about write about what you know, works. I think my scenes and characters are real because in a way, I have experienced all of them before putting them to paper. Linda, my wife, and I settled in a beautiful, and slightly isolated spot in Vancouver, Washington. With two and a half acres, we found our bit of heaven in the Great Northwest. It's been an interesting life path - raised in Ohio, a couple of times on the Gulf Coast, then the plains of Oklahoma and finally Washington. This is the home we always wanted, mild weather, near the mountains and the ocean and enough land to let the dog run all she wants. This is the home we always wanted. The weather is mild. We are near both the mountains and the ocean and we have enough land to let the dog run all she wants. What else is there in life? We're happy. Oh, concerning my life path, there was that one little detour that was very interesting, and only a bit anxiety raising. My time in Africa. I did a stint working as a geologist in Angola, Africa. Trust me, there is nothing like being in a communist country during a revolution to make you appreciate home. That's me and that's my life in a nutshell.

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      A Logical View Of Gravity - Bill Kercher

      A Logical View Of Gravity

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      William Kercher

      Copyright 2016 William Kercher

      Published by William Kercher at Smashwords

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      Table Of Contents

      Why I Wrote This

      Introduction

      The Question Of Falling Objects

      Another Look At Falling Objects, with a Little Math Thrown In

      What Is Gravity?

      Where Does Space Go?

      Dark Energy

      Dark Energy And Gravity

      Gravity Taken To An Extreme – Black Holes

      Summary

      Other Books By William Kercher

      Connecting With The Author

      Why I Wrote This

      As you read this, don’t expect a scientific thesis with page after page of formulas, equations and higher mathematics. While not a mathematically based article, there is a level of math. That cannot be avoided.

      What this is, is a logic based summation of my thinking about gravity. I begin with a discussion of what I heard when I was in grade school. We all heard the same thing in science classes – All objects fall at the same speed. That felt like an inconsistency and it has bothered me since then.

      For want of a better phrase, this article is the result of an itch I’ve had for a very long time. At some point as I refined my thinking about gravity and what it is and how it does what it does, I had to put it to paper. One reason I had to write it down was to force me to bring all my thoughts to a sharp focus.

      For as long as I can remember, I’ve been fascinated by all of the physical sciences. I attended college at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio and obtained an MS in geology. As an oil industry geologist, I found the hunt, to be the most interesting aspect of the field.

      The task of an exploration geologist is to take stray bits of information, bring them together and form a picture of the geologic structures that exist as deep as 10,000 feet below the surface. I viewed the exploration process as being very much like a treasure hunt: sorting through a maze of information, taking the bits which were needed, discarding what was not needed, then making a logical argument concerning the size, location and depth of the prospect. I found that intriguing.

      I applied that same love of the quest to my fascination with gravity.

      I begin with a discussion of what I had heard when I was in grade school – All objects fall at the same speed. That felt like an inconsistency and it bothered me.

      Once my interest was piqued, I had to figure it out. What is gravity!

      Many years passed, as tends to happen when life gets in the way of even

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