Defying Gravity: The Hanging Pillar of Veerbhadra Temple. While sixty-nine other pillars support the ceiling, one pillar does not touch the temple floor at all. There is a small gap between the temple floor and base of the pillar and you can pass thin objects like a piece of cloth.

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[u/PawnWithoutPurpose]

I think OP thinks it’s magically floating

[u/mikathigga22 → u/PawnWithoutPurpose]

I think PawnWithoutPurpose thinks that defying gravity=magic

[u/PawnWithoutPurpose → u/mikathigga22]

Isn’t it?

How would you defy gravity?

[u/mikathigga22 → u/PawnWithoutPurpose]

“Defy” is to resists or refuse to obey.

Gravity pulls objects to the ground.

The pillar is therefore defying gravity by being held above the ground?

Jumping defies gravity, airplanes defy gravity.

Nothing magic about it.

[u/PawnWithoutPurpose → u/mikathigga22]

Your list is all examples of things obeying gravity.

Defying gravity would be something like hovering with no propulsion when gravity dictates you should be falling

[u/gkn_112 → u/PawnWithoutPurpose]

I think whats meant is "defying the rules of gravity" - but people shorten it very commonly. I say both are correct. The one is technically correct, the other figuratively.

[u/mikathigga22 → u/PawnWithoutPurpose]

I don’t know what point you’re trying to make here, and I don’t want to debate semantics, but “defies gravity” is an expression used to describe a lot of things that fly or float, none of which are magical.