Again the question is the same. Why should you expect the object to go away from the earth when you drop it? It's a nonsensical question.
It falls towards the earth to return to equilibrium/rest/lowest available energy state.
It falls because you lifted it (and with the exact same energy used to do so), because it cannot be supported by the matter beneath it, and because its weight is greater than the weight of the media it displaces.
It is as nonsensical to expect a lifted object to fall upwards as it is to expect a lifted object to fall east/west/sideways and for the same reasons.
There must be a reason why objects would go toward the earth and not away from it.
There is! It's weight (more specifically the interplay of the weight of the object and the media it displaces), an intrinsic and inexorable property of all matter. Such tendency towards rest is a law of nature. What goes up, must come down - the ancient law of gravity.
No! Gravity is a natural law thousands of years old. It is simply the phenomenon of falling - nothing more or less. Weight is the downward force (and the interplay of that weight to the weight it displaces)!
What causes it?
Matter! Weight is an intrinsic and inexorable property of all matter.
Again the question is the same. Why should you expect the object to go away from the earth when you drop it? It's a nonsensical question.
It falls towards the earth to return to equilibrium/rest/lowest available energy state.
It falls because you lifted it (and with the exact same energy used to do so), because it cannot be supported by the matter beneath it, and because its weight is greater than the weight of the media it displaces.
It’s not a nonsensical question. There must be a reason why objects would go toward the earth and not away from it.
It is as nonsensical to expect a lifted object to fall upwards as it is to expect a lifted object to fall east/west/sideways and for the same reasons.
There is! It's weight (more specifically the interplay of the weight of the object and the media it displaces), an intrinsic and inexorable property of all matter. Such tendency towards rest is a law of nature. What goes up, must come down - the ancient law of gravity.
So gravity is a downward force? What causes it?
No! Gravity is a natural law thousands of years old. It is simply the phenomenon of falling - nothing more or less. Weight is the downward force (and the interplay of that weight to the weight it displaces)!
Matter! Weight is an intrinsic and inexorable property of all matter.