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My friend sez the General Theory of Relativity is Bullshit. He says, there's no such thing as "space-time" or gravity as a curve. He thinks it's just a "force" that is unexplainable...


Any good raep lines to prove him absolutely wrong???

That's pretty much the way science works. Take the Laws of Motion and The Laws of Thermodynamics for example. No one argues against them because the experimental evidence is too great. As a result, they're LAWS: undeniable statements about how reality works in certain situations and conditions. A theory is basically an assertion that MAY be true because it describes a POSSIBLE reason(s)for phenomena, but a law is an assertion that's determined to be true by virtue of repeated and rigorous testing by many scientists over the course of many years. During this time, every possible aspect and prediction is examined, reexamined, tested, and retested until no questions about it are left. For example: Say you throw a rock into the air and see it come back down. You then say: What goes up must come down. For that to be a law, everyone else has to test your idea by throwing rocks in the air. As long as everyone's rocks continue to come down, your assertion will become a law. If so much as one rock doesn't come down, your assertion remains a theory and has to be modified to account for the rock that didn't come down or replaced by an assertion that can account for it. Evolution, Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics are just 3 of the theories that are in that state: much of what they say provides a reasonable explaination of what goes on, and some aspects of them have been proved, but much testing and modifying is still going on because scientists STILL have questions: We still need to clearly see one species of animal evolve into another(Evolution), still looking for the subatomic particle responsible for gravitational interaction(Relativity, Unified Field Theory), need to catch a particle existing in all its possible states at once or catch one "instantly transmitting" information(Quantum Mechanics). And there's plenty more questions I can't even think of.