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.
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.
So what causes weight to be a property that brings objects toward the earth?
The interplay of the weight of the object and the weight of the media displaced by it, as archemides describes.
When the object's weight is greater, it is down towards the earth. When it is equal it is in no direction. When it is lesser, it is up.