Calling all astrophysicists

So I have been doing a lot of refinishing of floors lately, and have had around 40 hours of quiet alone with my thoughts time. I can hear the "Oh no!!" emanating from a certain cubicle in a certain hallway at MSC. But enough about my wife and on to my thoughts.
It all started with the thought "I wonder if the word orange was first used to reference the color or the fruit?" I can't really prove either, so on to more pressing issues.
In conversation about nerdy science stuff, the topic of super slow motion was brought up. I am going to be forced to write the following in train of thought format as it doesn't make sense to write it any other way. So you have all seen the water drop stuff I am sure. But why does it first send the water around the initial impact point straight up? It must have something to do with how the most efficient way for energy to be released is in a sphere. Oh and it will take the path of least resistance. So the path of least resistance in this situation is not down into the water but up into the air. Maybe the energy that travels up from this impact pulls the surface of the water up with it.....Kind of like how gravity pulls things down. Wait what is gravity again? I wonder if it is the result of the centrifugal force from the spinning of the planet. I mean if the centrifugal force of the earth spinning is pushing everything away from the center of the earth that would make sense, but it doesn't because of gravity...... maybe gravity is the result of centrifugal force bouncing off the contents of the earth and atmosphere and pulling things back toward the center. Like those guys that break cement blocks in "competitions". If they have enough force they break them all, if they don't they "get double the force back into their arms".... no doubt a result of their initial 1000 pounds of force exerted into the cement plus the force that bounces off the unbroken bricks....that would probably feel like double the force.....anyway is gravity just centrifugal force that is too weak to push all of the mass out so it bounces back toward the center?
So if anyone knows let me know. And if anyone thinks my brain doesn't work like it should let me know that too. Finally, if anyone thinks of stuff like this too, let me know. It is nice to not feel alone in insanity.

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Quite a while ago I started referring to myself as American-Asian. Mostly because I am American of Asian descent. That's right folks, I am American first. I would have thought that some super-PC person would have made that change a long time ago. I am one generation from being Asian, on my Dad's side anyway. My point is African Americans are several generations from being anything African, but who am I to judge. I understand the importance of being the first of something, but not celebrating it for being the first. My issue with this stems from a statistic I heard on the news. 46ish percent of "Whites" voted for Obama. 60ish percent of "Hispanics" for Obama...... 95ish percent of "African Americans" voted for Obama. 95 percent of African Americans thought he was the best man for the job? Really? 95 percent agreed that he would do a better job as president. I wonder how many percent of that vote was racially motivated. One might even say that a large percentage of "African Americans" didn't vote for John McCain because he is white. Racist bastards! That's all I have to say about that..... except that I also voted for Obama, I think he will do a better job fixing the things that I think are more important to fix. I did not vote for him so I could be part of "making history by voting for the black guy."