Is this supposed to be a forum for a high school dropouts?

Because, the author of the posted excerpt, apparently didn't go to high school. His explanations fail in so many ways to accurately describe the well known, that I am afraid it requires similar qualification to follow his train of thought.

albert einstein, told of the "beginning" of his discoveries, as daydreams, and theories and professed experts, as only limiter's of expanded sight of the human brain.

tesla has no validations from anything for quite some time.

edison was a quack to most for many years.

newton was a reject, until much later, after all had said over and again, no way.

wisdom is only but questioning all that currently exist, and putting all things toegther as one, not discounting ANYTHING.

all things are possible, and nothing is impossible.

skepticism be as ignorance, of self absorption turned into self vanity.

anything new is always despised by what was old.

Or: Two fat people would be sucked together in the supermarket as they tried to pass each other in the isle.

If gravity does not exist, then you have to answer the question "What is it that keeps the planets revolving around the sun?" Why do they follow an elliptical path instead of a straight line?

I don't think there can be any doubt that the planets do follow an elliptical path.

You can call it gravity or you can call it "the affinity of matter" or you can call it blargenfarg. It doesn't matter what you call it.

Whatever you want to call it, it has predictable effects based on the mass and distance of the objects.

And it is our understanding of that predictability that has enabled everything we have done in the space program.

Then more than a decade ago a researcher noticed something funny about two Pioneer spacecraft that were streaming toward the edge of the solar system. They weren't where they should have been.

Something was holding the probes back, according to calculations of their paths, speed and how the gravity of all the objects in the solar system — and even a tiny push provided by sunlight — ought to act on them.


Now scientists have proposed a new mission to figure out what's up with gravity.

Staggering possibilities
Pioneer 10 and 11 launched in 1972 and 1973. Today each is several billion miles away, heading in opposite directions out of the solar system.

The discrepancy caused by the anomaly amounts to about 248,500 miles (400,000 kilometers), or roughly the distance between Earth and the moon. That's how much farther the probes should have traveled in their 34 years, if our understanding of gravity is correct. (The distance figure is an oversimplification of the actual measurements, but more on that in a moment.)

Scientists are quick to suggest the Pioneer anomaly, as they call it, is probably caused by the space probes themselves, perhaps emitting heat or gas. But the possibilities have been tested and modeled and penciled out, and so far they don't add up.

Which leaves open staggering possibilities that would force wholesale reprinting of all physics books:

* Invisible dark matter is tugging at the probes
* Other dimensions create small forces we don't understand
* Gravity works differently than we think

Devoted to the problem
Slava Turyshev at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is one of a handful of scientists who wrestle mentally with the Pioneer anomaly every day. He is not paid to work specifically on the problem, so he has to juggle the disturbing thought with his regular research, which involves other aspects of gravity and, significantly, whether theories that explain the glue of the whole universe might one day match neatly with those describing the invisible, subatomic world.

"I have been working on [the Pioneer anomaly] for more than 11 years now, and was never funded to do this job," Turyshev tells Space.com. "I guess this says a lot about my devotion to solve this mystery."

Data from the Galileo and Ulysses spacecraft suggest the anomaly may have affected them, too. But neither has been far enough from the sun — the dominant source of gravity in the solar system — to firmly distinguish any possible discrepancy from noise in the data, Turyshev says. Galileo was crashed into Jupiter last year, and Ulysses will never go farther than it has.

That leaves two data points — one from each Pioneer craft. Turyshev pointedly considers the pair as one data point, so as not to inflate the case for strange new physics.

NASA engineers have made their last communications with the Pioneer probes, so the two table-sized robots are carrying the unsolved mystery silently to the stars.

New mission proposed
The Pioneer anomaly was discovered by John Anderson, also of JPL, in the 1980s. For years he didn't publish what he'd noticed. Then he discussed it with physicist Michael Martin Nieto at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Nieto says he "almost fell off my chair."

Nieto jumped into the investigation, and the two were later joined by Turyshev. They dug deeper into the data, even tracking down retired NASA scientists for some of it.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6273955/

BTW Jeannie, i enjoy your posts.

Scientists are quick to suggest the Pioneer anomaly, as they call it, is probably caused by the space probes themselves, perhaps emitting heat or gas. But the possibilities have been tested and modeled and penciled out, and so far they don't add up.

Which leaves open staggering possibilities that would force wholesale reprinting of all physics books:

* Invisible dark matter is tugging at the probes
* Other dimensions create small forces we don't understand
* Gravity works differently than we think

...According to Einstein gravity is merely an object of mass creating a sinkhole in the time/space continuum. Kinda like setting a bowling ball on a mattress. If you had smaller objects, lets say, marbles, they would fall towards the heavy bowling ball...

A very bad analogy. Observe, when you place a bowling ball on a mattress, it does sink in, creating somewhat a funnel. Now, you place smaller balls nearby, and they roll in circles, approaching the bigger ball. However, all this is happening because the mattress is positioned normally to a gradient of gravitational field. So, this analogy, is attempting to explain the gravitation by presuming the effects of that same force apriori?

Isn't it a bit like explaining to a boy how a bicycle tire works by saying "When you push here, the bicycle pump works, and there you have it!"?

Gravity is a weak fundamental force (in our dimention anyway) of about 6.7x10^-11Nm^2/kg^2.
So it isn't going to instantly make every bit of matter attract it to every other. I mean a house can stand against gravity, a strong enough gust of wind can blow it down.