• Question: Why is gravity so weird?

    Asked by anon-267545 on 11 Nov 2020.
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      Bradley Young answered on 11 Nov 2020:


      Gravity seems so odd because it’s a fundamental force (like magnetism) that we cannot easily feel and alter as humans. Whereas you can play with magnets to understand them, you can’t really lay with gravity.

      Also, as a fundamental force (one of the four), there’s kind of no explanation for it, it just exists. Scientists are doing a lot of research in to gravity at the moment, you might have heard about the ‘gravitational waves’ that were discovered just a couple of years ago.

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