Imagine swinging a rock over your head in a circle, on a string. Add more energy, and the rock speeds up. Now replace the string w a bungee cord. Add more energy, and the cord stretches / the rock moves further out. The energy is stored in cord. Gravity is that bungee cord.https://twitter.com/robkroese/status/1048712341527953409 …
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3/ Here's yet another way to look at it. Picture that big funnel with a steel ball bearing you see at science museums. Release the ball on a tangential path. It circles the funnel, WAYYY out at the lip, slowly, slowly. Yes? That ball has a LOT of potential energy right now. >
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4/ Keep going. More air resistance, ball drops lower, ball goes FASTER. Yet more. Yet lower. Yet faster. Agreed? Videotape that...and play it backwards.
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5/ Now, in addition to the backwards masking where the prog rock soundtrack turns into Geroge Soros asking you to destroy western civilization through big government, what ELSE is going on?
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6/ Answer: we see a ball orbiting VERY quickly close to the bottom of the funnel, and we see energy being added to it (negative air resistance, but imagine a very tiny rocket). And what happens? It slowly climbs further out, slows down, and stockpiles energy as potential energy.
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