Avian, what's up with this new Earthlike planet?

[Bob Lentil]

Originally posted by Roger Lee
It APPEARS that we've grown, gotten heavier, to someone sitting ong the ground.

Shrunk and gotten heavier, actually.

Doesn't gravity affect things based on their mass? IE more massive things are more adversely affected by gravity. Otherwise these iron-man competitions we all see on Fox Sports would be a waste of time (even more so than they already are) since anyone should be able to lift that minivan that's parked across two spaces as easily as they'd pick up the quarter that just fell out of their pockets. Ergo, more massive things are more adversely (for lack of a better word) affected by gravity.

And since light can't escape black holes due to their gravity, they have mass.

Here's a website that gives a simple glossy explanation: http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/as...rs/961102.html

***Bob Lentil boldly predicts that Roger's next question will be, "How does gravity affect space-time?"***