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Rishav say: Moon is not stationary.
When you tie a stone(or any object at the end of a string and then start spinning it over your head, does it fall like it would do if it was in rest??
NO! Same with the moon.... the centripetal force of earth and the centrifugal force from the revolution are so near to each other that they "nearly" neutralize each other which makes the moon not to fall towards us
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daniel g say: No such thing as gravity,, the world just sucks.
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Chris say: no
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Hoe say: you are stupid
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poldi say: Simple - the moon is moving. Its orbiting the Earth fast enough so Earth's gravity can't pull it down, but slow enough that it can escape.
Read about escape velocity:
http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/ask/2...
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Jason say: Moon is in its fixed orbital. Whet it stays in orbital, it does not move up or down. Moon rotates around the earth in a ellipse path and it is stable. So, moon does not want to break the stability.
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Brigalow Bloke say: Newton's mathematical theory of gravity was developed to explain why the Moon does not fall down and the planets do not fall into the Sun, not to explain apples falling from trees.
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Clive say: The word "theory" in science means something there is good evidence for. Obviously you don't know the correct meaning of the word. An idea there is no evidence for is a hypothesis. Test the hypothesis and find it works, and then it becomes a theory. I really can't help if you refuse to understand what a theory is. Scientists try to avoid the word "fact" because it could be proved wrong.
The Moon IS falling towards us all the time. But it's moving so fast sideways compared to Earth that there is an equal centrifugal force - its tendency to fly off in a straight line - pulling it away. The two forces balance and it stays at the same height. In fact it is decelerating extremely slowly so it is also moving away from Earth extremely slowly to keep the two forces balanced.