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Making Light of Gravity

Physicist Claudia de Rham on her 3 greatest revelations while writing The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity. The post Making Light of Gravity appeared first on Nautilus.

1 Gravity is fun!

The word gravity, derived by Newton from the Latin , conveys both weight and deadly seriousness. But gravity can be the opposite of that. As I researched my book during the sleep-deprived days of the pandemic, flashbacks to the role gravity had played in some of my most memorable moments kept popping into my mind: swinging in hammocks in the Amazon, learning to fly

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