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Are you a solipsist?
I thought it'd be pretty clear I'm an empiricist when it comes to epistemology. Solipsism is intensely unuseful. Why do you ask?
Well you said belief is bad, so drag assumed you believed nothing.
Two problems with that comment there. Firstly, solipsism isn't belief in nothing so the outcome of your assumption is ill informed. The second, and pretty glaringly huge problem is that I didn't actually say that, or anything like it. Be honest, now...are you honestly engaging in good faith? Hmmm? Maybe you've just mistaken me for someone else.
Yes, drag mistook you for Lib.
Hehe well that's what I get for jumping in I suppose!
Drag still believes there must be a force of attraction between massive objects, even if Newton and Einstein got the equation wrong.
There is a force of attraction between any two masses. The equation is F=GMm/r^2. That one is good enough for nearly all practical applications, but Einstein's field equations are better if you're doing cosmology.
Do you think there is a better equation than those? You seem to imply that they're wrong.
Drag has decided not to discuss the quantum gravity problem, and just reassert that drag is a gravity believer.
You have a weird way of talking. For example, it's not normal to call Newton and Einstein "wrong" in their equations about gravity just because they did not happen to solve all of physics while writing them down...
at a certain point the question isn't whether a formula is "right or wrong", it's about whether what the formula says is "good enough in this situation" or whether a different formula should be chosen.
This is an important topic in physics: choose the right frame of reference, the right simplifications, the right assumptions, ... for your calculations to be as easy as possible, yet meaningful.
So i guess to "believe" in a formula is just to recognize and accept its usefulness for a purpose.