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9. How does Gravity work?

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We all know the story according to Isaac Newton was outside, under a tree, when an apple fell from the tree on top of his head. It is thought that this is how he discovered the theory of gravity: you throw something up and it comes back down.

In reality, gravity doesn’t make as much sense as we thought it did. For example, gravity holds the entire Universe together. Just imagine that Terra is somewhere in the Solar System, only held by gravity. Although, this force that makes us “stay grounded” is one of the weakest. For example, think about bringing two magnets near each other. They snap together, right? Well, that force is actually stronger than gravity.

And that’s not all. Once you get down to the level of molecules, atoms and even smaller particles, gravity just doesn’t work anymore.

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3 thoughts on “10 Simple Questions We Have No Answer For”

  1. Let nature take it’s course, natural human immunity is the best cure for it, so stop trying to fix what God has already perfected…

  2. In order to HAVE time you need at least two objects that are not like each other in any manner. In the situation where that does exist movement of one relative to the other is time. We have that situation.

  3. Time does NOT exist. It is a virtual concept created by man to measure how fast something changes. IE distance traveled per hour. And if you thing about time travel is absolutely ridiculous because to travel back in “time” you would have to move every atom in the universe back to its position at that time. Going forward in time is even more difficult because you would have to predict all the random events that would occur in the universe and then move all atoms in the universe to that position. Impossible to that. So time was created by man, a very useful concept but still doesn’t have “existence”.

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