Posted: Nov 08, 2016 8:13 pm
For the sun to attract all the planets such that they remain in orbit, it must, in the Electric Gravity Universe, have an opposite charge to the planets.
Let's, just for grins, leave aside the credulity required to believe that each planet has exactly the right charge for the attraction to be precisely equal to the actual force predicted by GmM/r2.
But if the sun attracts all the planets, all the planets will be repelling each other.
Does the OP not think that this would have shown up by now? Does he not think that perhaps the discovery of Neptune would have been a little different, if the planets all repelled each other?
The same argument applies to all moons, of all planets, and all earth satellites. Everything depends on a universally attractive gravitational force, not one that is alternately attractive or repulsive depending on mutual charge.
I should note the following, in case the OP claims that a charged object attracts an uncharged object by electrostatic induction, and that the planets don't, strictly, need to be oppositely charged:
1. Electrostatic induction is relevant only at close range. At sun-planet distances, the relative distance of the like and unlike charges are so nearly identical that the net force is effectively zero.
2. Even if the above was not true, and the planets were all neutral, they would still not be exerting attractive forces on one another. So all the predictions based on gravity being a universally attractive force would still have been proved wrong by now.
Let's, just for grins, leave aside the credulity required to believe that each planet has exactly the right charge for the attraction to be precisely equal to the actual force predicted by GmM/r2.
But if the sun attracts all the planets, all the planets will be repelling each other.
Does the OP not think that this would have shown up by now? Does he not think that perhaps the discovery of Neptune would have been a little different, if the planets all repelled each other?
The same argument applies to all moons, of all planets, and all earth satellites. Everything depends on a universally attractive gravitational force, not one that is alternately attractive or repulsive depending on mutual charge.
I should note the following, in case the OP claims that a charged object attracts an uncharged object by electrostatic induction, and that the planets don't, strictly, need to be oppositely charged:
1. Electrostatic induction is relevant only at close range. At sun-planet distances, the relative distance of the like and unlike charges are so nearly identical that the net force is effectively zero.
2. Even if the above was not true, and the planets were all neutral, they would still not be exerting attractive forces on one another. So all the predictions based on gravity being a universally attractive force would still have been proved wrong by now.