The hierarchy problem
It didn't take a lot of effort because gravity is, by far, the weakest of the four fundamental forces of nature. By one measure, gravity is a thousand billion billion times weaker than the strong nuclear force, the strongest of all the forces.
Ordered from strongest to weakest, the forces are 1) the strong nuclear force, 2) the electromagnetic force, 3) the weak nuclear force, and 4) gravity.
String theory requires that the universe has more than the three spatial dimensions that we experience, and possibly as many as 10. According to string theorists' best ideas, gravity is so weak because, unlike the other forces, it leaks in and out of these extra dimensions.
Mount Nevado Huascarán in Peru has the lowest gravitational acceleration, at 9.7639 m/s2, while the highest is at the surface of the Arctic Ocean, at 9.8337 m/s2.
If you wanted to reach a point where Earth's gravity no longer has a hold on you, you'd have to fly out about 21 million kilometers, or 13 million miles.
The sign of acceleration due to gravity (g) can be both negative and positive, it depends on the sign convention you wish to follow. If you choose downward direction to be positive and upward to be negative (generally used convention) then, g will be positive if. the object is stationary or moving downwards.
There are four fundamental forces: Gravitational force, Electromagnetic force, Weak nuclear force and Strong nuclear force. Among all these four forces, Strong nuclear force is the strongest.
Some people think that there is no gravity in space. In fact, a small amount of gravity can be found everywhere in space.
If a particle has no mass (m = 0) and is at rest (p = 0), then the total energy is zero (E = 0). But an object with zero energy and zero mass is nothing at all.
The term dark matter was coined in 1933 by Fritz Zwicky of the California Institute of Technology to describe the unseen matter that must dominate one feature of the universe—the Coma Galaxy Cluster.
There are four fundamental forces at work in the universe: the strong force, the weak force, the electromagnetic force, and the gravitational force.
Matter makes up all visible objects in the universe, and it can be neither created nor destroyed.
According to the Mohs scale, talc, also known as soapstone, is the softest mineral; it is composed of a stack of weakly connected sheets that tend to slip apart under pressure. When it comes to metals, scientists try to measure hardness in absolute terms.
Extra dimensions. Another kind of fifth force, which arises in Kaluza–Klein theory, where the universe has extra dimensions, or in supergravity or string theory is the Yukawa force, which is transmitted by a light scalar field (i.e. a scalar field with a long Compton wavelength, which determines the range).
Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.
Earth's gravity comes from all its mass. All its mass makes a combined gravitational pull on all the mass in your body. That's what gives you weight. And if you were on a planet with less mass than Earth, you would weigh less than you do here.
Gravity is indeed a real force, but not in the traditional sense. In other words, gravity is not a direct, classical, action-at-a-distance force between two objects. However, in the broader sense, gravity is indeed a force because it describes the resulting interaction between two masses.
If there was no gravity on Earth, everything would float away into space, including people, animals, and objects. This is because gravity is what holds objects with mass to the surface of the planet. Without gravity, there would be no force keeping us or anything else on Earth.
In the 20th century, Newton's model was replaced by general relativity where gravity is not a force but the result of the geometry of spacetime. Under general relativity, anti-gravity is impossible except under contrived circumstances.
Without a large amount of exercise, muscles atrophy in microgravity, much like muscles atrophy in an aging person. The heart is strained. Blood pressure can be affected. Many of the symptoms of living in space resemble the symptoms of aging.
In space, people usually experience environmental stressors like microgravity, cosmic radiation, and social isolation, which can all impact aging. Studies on long-term space travel often measure aging biomarkers such as telomere length and heartbeat rates, not epigenetic aging.
"Gravity makes us age slower, in a relative term," Chou said. "Compared to someone not near any massive object, we are aging more slowly by a very tiny amount. In fact, for that someone, the whole world around us evolves more slowly under the effect of gravity."