Consider a cow that walks over the edge of a cliff. It now has only air below it.
Do you agree that it will fall downward?
No
cows are not so stupid to get so close to the cliff.
So now we have a cow falling off a cliff.
No
you have not..
Right now there is no cow falling of that cliff.
OK with the observation that things (a cow) fall downward from the edge of a cliff and their speed increases as time passes Bjarne?
I can only happen if you have pushed it.
Let us say you are so evil, - yes it would accelerate.
First in that moment ENERGY pop op from the big blue, it was NOT KE before that process.
I do hope that you know enough about the real world to say yes.
The cow has gained speed and continues to gain speed as it falls..
Agree.
No it is not
You KNOW when a object speed increases, - its mass as well as KE does the same.
The kinetic energy of the cow has increased and continues to increase.
Right and the mass too.
Bjarne, you do know that kinetic energy is one half times mass times speed times speed?
Yes.
And now the big question:
Where does the kinetic energy of a cow falling off a cliff come from?
As you see it is a process right here and now, in that process energy pops up from what seems to be nowhere.
Unless you understand (or tries to understand) this process,- you off course never will know where that energy comes from.
Between clusters of galaxies, central in galaxies, inside the Earth, inside Jupiter, insides many moons is it warmer as previously believed, and we can’t explain (even though we tries)...
You need to understand that gravity is dancing the same dance as the strong force.
It’s a unity. In THAT process energy “pops up”.
The potential gravity energy was NOT inside the cow, NOT inside space around the cow, - but rather EVERWHERE, and mainly inside matter, but not limited to the cow.
The strong force is a universal ocean of frequencies caused by the dance of particle.
Understand the strong force and how gravity only is a by-product of that united force is the first step.
http://www.science27.com/english/quantum_physics.html
The energy is always there, it is that what keep cosmos together, - you can reveal the united force and this is exactly what gravity always is about.
The strong force / interaction is responsible for spinning space together and keeping it together.
Therefore it also tries to pull the Moon down on Earth.
This is also what gravity is. And this is where the “potential gravity energy is”
So according to the example; if you want to point to where the potential gravity energy is, then it is mainly inside the Earth, but also inside the moon, as well as between. (And it also inside the whole universe) You therefore can’t point at it, unless you can point to all these “directions”.
Shortly, the universe is a multi-vibrating elastic soup, the elastic dance (interaction) of particles.
Gravity is as a result vacuums in that soup.
All this is the potential gravity energy ..