Dinosaurs, gravity, and baseball players
Part of a conversation between professional baseball player Jose Canseco, paleontology writer Brian Switek, and me (a physics writer).
I bow down to Brian Switek @laelaps only scientist to tackle Ancient Gravity geekosystem.com/how-dinosaurs-… I support his new theory. hug for u bri- I applaud Mr. Canseco for being willing to change his mind! That's one of the biggest barriers we all have to accepting new ideas. Also, I think Cansecosaurus has merit as a dinosaur genus.
- @Laelaps I am sure you are right but if you guys do ever find out it is ancient gravity name a huge dino after me. #cansecosaurus
- I can't find the tweet in the streams that began this particular conversation, but at some point Brian pointed him to my post, and this is where I joined the discussion.
- @Laelaps @DrMRFrancis i like Matts article and expanding earth is crap.If not mass related could paleo space-time been slower to reduce grav
@JoseCanseco @Laelaps I'm glad you liked the post - happy to talk about this stuff.- @JoseCanseco @Laelaps We have good reason to think gravity has been the same for 13.7 billion years, as long as the Universe has been around
- @DrMRFrancis i know you are right. cant the speed of your ride/earth change pull of gravity on you? If mass is constant can space-time vary
- @JoseCanseco Gravity and spacetime are the same thing. That was Einstein's big discovery.
- @DrMRFrancis sorry dont mean to challenge you or einstein. just think that if we were moving at under 1g then big dinos make sense. hug 4 u
- @JoseCanseco No problem! As @Laelaps said, big dinos were lighter than we used to think. It was OK for gravity to be the same.
- @DrMRFrancis Will do buddy thanks for the time. Let me know if you get to vegas and we can hit the town bring brian too.@laelaps
- After this very nice conversation, I proposed an idea, which Canseco liked.
- @DrMRFrancis I'm in but lets do it on TV i am tired of watching property wars and auction shows on the discovery channel used to be science
- After such a crazy night, I had to ask the obvious question the following morning.
