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Uh, your mom is so massive she attracts other objects toward her with a force proportional to the product of their mass and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
(In other words: You do realize this sounds like the nerd version of a fat joke, right?)
That honestly didn't occur to me when I wrote it. It was supposed to be a riff on an Ad Hominem attack, only with a factual statement about a theory of physical law and how he conforms to it.
Here I thought it was a snarky statement about how we can see the success of physical theories with our own observations, and have never observed them to fail. Triple illusion of transparency all the way across the sky!
Its purpose was to demonstrate how physical theories are demonstrably successful. Its delivery was the Ad Hominem riff.