[ScottAnfield]

Hi RP, when I typed that into google and saw 'Gravity and magnetism are not the same thing. In fact, they are totally and completely separate forces' I got a bit worried, until I actually read it... Its actually made me more sure of my theory, here's why:

1) 'No matter what they are made of, both objects get pulled towards each other just because they have mass' - In my theory, this is true also, as everything is made up of atoms and every atom, because it contains protons, neutrons and electrons, exerts a magnetic force. Therefore, it reasonably follows that every atom can either push or pull. So, the larger the mass, the more atoms it has, and the larger magnetic pull it has.
2) 'Unlike gravity, which occurs between any objects, magnetism depends on specific properties of objects.' - This, 10 years ago seemed to be true, but recent discoveries, such as the floating frog in a magnetic field shows that EVERYTHING is magnetic through a process called molecular magnetism. I've left the link on other pages but here it is again -http://www.hfml.ru.nl/froglev.html. They can levitate apparently non-magnetic objects such as wood, water and living objects in a field of about 10T.
3) 'If you measure very carefully, however, you find that there are small magnetic forces between magnets and ’non-magnetic’ materials like pieces of copper or pieces of wood or people. Some of those ’non-magnetic’ things are attracted to magnets and others are repelled' - reinforces what I've just said, contradictiory to what the author wrote a few lines previously.
4) 'On the scale of the solar system, with planets far apart, gravity is much more important than magnetism' - this actually looks to be true, but just because gravity goes down by a factor of 4 and magnetism goes down by a factor of 8, does not mean that magnetism is not acting, other planets surrounding the said object would also be having an effect on the object, not to mention stars enorous magnetic force. It is all balanced carefully and very elegantly, as Brian Greene would say!

I'll be sure to check out the EinsteinGroupie forum sometime today and hopefully there will be some matters we can open up there.

Cheers, Scott