Comments by "John Berry" (@user-ud6ui7zt3r) on "Gravity is not a force. But what does that mean?" video.

Sabine, it has been said that gravity is not a force. It has also been said that momentum is a resistance to an acceleration. So, would it be accurate to say that, when you hold an accelerometer in your open palm, your palm is accelerating the accelerometer upward, and the "force" that you feel, upon your open palm, is due to the momentum (of the mass of the accelerometer) producing a resistance to upward acceleraton ?
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@soopergoof232 Now that's a can of worms, that you've opened. Are you saying that, when we stand on the surface of the Earth, that space is "raining down" upon our heads, and, simultaneously, that same "raining space" is accelerating (at 9.8ᵐ/ₛ²) towards the center of the Earth? If so, is space capable of performing a convergence? Is there such a thing as compacted space? Also, your "fluidic-viscous-resistance-of-space" notion would seem to ignore the results of the Michelson-Morley experiment. The M-M experiment was designed to attempt to detect the presence of an 'aether' or 'aether wind' in space. As far as I know, the M-M experiment, and all similar experiments since M-M, have come-up negative, meaning that we are not "dragging" through an aether as we move through space.
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@soopergoof232 I get what you are insisting, however, take no offense, I think I detect some circular reasoning. All in all, I think I will wait until Sabine gets back from her Christmas break.
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@soopergoof232 Unfortunately, my originating comment is not attracting very much attention. That means that very few people will ever see the ideas and questions that we have bandied about in this Reply section. However, I did post another comment in this overall comment section, asking if the chip-based accelerometer uses an internal quantum principle for detecting acceleration in a specified direction. If the method of acceleration detection were due to an exploited quantum property of semiconductor, then that property might give a clue as to the true nature of Gravity.
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Sabine, what happens to the accelerated "spring-in-the-box" if the spring were suddenly turned orthogonal (i.e. horizontal) ? Would the length of the turned spring suddenly seem to compress?
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Sabine, when the chip-based accelerometer is measuring upward acceleration in the +z axis, is the silicon-based chip accomplishing this measurement by way of internal quantum principles ?
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So, acceleration is absolute, velocity is always relative (and therefore NOT absolute), and when you jump off of a tall building, you are NOT accelerating, at least not until the duration of the time interval of your collision with the ground.
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shows picture of Albert Einstein looking like a nappy-headed "ho."
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