# A baseball, a golf ball and a marble in space - what happens?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 12, 2012, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-baseball-a-golf-ball-and-a-marble-in-space-what-happens/637494 "2012-10-12T07:47:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-baseball-a-golf-ball-and-a-marble-in-space-what-happens/637494/41 "2012-10-16T18:45:06Z")

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> [@komolono](#):
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> Put aside what makes it - everything seems to be spinning. Now, sub-atomic phenomena is very hard to observe and gravity seems to “work” at the speed of light. However the Universe does no work - so electrons must use paths with the least energy levels - all the electrons of the universe synchronously. That is the start …
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> …Pretty predeterministic

I’m guessing English isn’t your first language, so I’ll tell you that your coyness isn’t coming across as you intended. It’s annoying.

Are you implying that gravity is the result of the tiny fluctuations of electrons in their orbits around nuclei? Sort of a rounding error of the electromagnetic force?

What’s your answer to the OP you posted?

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**Author:** ![komolono](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/komolono/32/532_2.png) [@komolono](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/komolono)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-baseball-a-golf-ball-and-a-marble-in-space-what-happens/637494/42 "2012-10-17T03:14:51Z")

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> [@bup](#):
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> I’ll tell you that your coyness isn’t coming across as you intended. It’s annoying.  
> What’s your answer to the OP you posted?

Maybe it appears as intended because Physics is more of a Conspiracy theory than a Science to me. Nothing personal though - but even God could not understand [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String\_theory](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory)  
I must confess: I never got over Photons.  
**At this point** I think these balls would make a solar system - even with no velocity added to the system.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-baseball-a-golf-ball-and-a-marble-in-space-what-happens/637494/43 "2012-10-17T03:33:42Z")

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It’s true that nobody really understands the so-called String Theory, not even the string theorists themselves, but that doesn’t imply anything against the vast amount of non-string physics that _is_ well-understood.

And if physics is a conspiracy theory, it’s the worst one in history: I’ve yet to meet a physicist who doesn’t love talking about physics to anyone who will listen and most folks who won’t.

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