Is there a place in the western US with little gravity?
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April 16th, 2009
I remember seeing on Unsolved Mysteries years and years ago that there was a place in the western united states where gravity does not apply. they showed videos of a quarter traveling uphill. Apparently the Indians knew about this place. Whats it called?
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It’s called Candy Mountain.
It’s the Mystery Spot near Santa Cruz, and it’s a carefully contrived, very good optical illusion.
[Edit] Simultaneous post with crisw.
It’s the Mystery Spot in CA. it’s really just an optical illusion.
Edit- Jeruba beat me to it!
I was going to suggest any good comedy club but I don’t think that is what you meant.
Knott’s Berry Farm used to have a carefully crafted house that would fool your eyes into thinking all sorts of laws of physics are being broken. However, it seems to have been replaced with various forms of roller coaster.
Is that the street where things appear to roll up it, but it’s really because of the horizon line being obscured and weird trees that grew crooked with wind?
The closest you’re going to get to “little gravity” is definitely the Oregon Vortex – which is not faked like most of them.
Goldhill Oregon, Know as the Oregon Vortex. Just off of I-5 on Sardine Creek. I used to live next door to it. ;)
Gravity applies everywhere. Unlike the other 3 elementary forces of nature the effects apply over great distances as well.
Places with more or “little gravity” on Earth is actually scientifically correct. As you move across our planet’s surface gravity changes ever so slightly. This is even true for the oceans. Ships are going up and down all the time and it has nothing to do with the waves created by wind. The reason for all this: Earth is not a perfect sphere with evenly distributed density.
@Vinifera7
Hey, wake up sleepyhead!...We’re going to Candy Moooooountaaaain!
Candy Mountain! Candy Mountain! You fill me with sweet sugary goodness!
LOL..and goodness and joyness…
Always remember, gravity sucks.
Ross: Uh, excuse me. Evolution is not for you to buy, Phoebe. Evolution is scientific fact, like, like, like the air we breathe, like gravity.
Phoebe: Ok, don’t get me started on gravity.
Ross: You uh, you don’t believe in gravity?
Phoebe: Well, it’s not so much that you know, like I don’t believe in it, you know, it’s just…I don’t know, lately I get the feeling that I’m not so much being pulled down as I am being pushed.
(There’s a knock on the door.)
Chandler: Uh-Oh. It’s Isaac Newton, and he’s pissed.
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