Blunt Force Truth: Opposites don’t attract. But you’ve been led to believe they do, right? It sure seems that way. One person likes one thing and another doesn’t, and they have a great relationship anyway. What’s happening? If you’re both liking and disliking the same thing, both of your minds are focused on the same …
Gravity’s a funny thing. We know it works because we stay grounded. But we don’t know exactly how it works. Lisa Randall has a robust theory using open loop strings and closed loops. Extra gravity leaks into higher dimensions, giving our 3 dimensions the perfect amount of gravity. This unifies gravity with other forces, all …
What makes the world go around? Everything’s moving somewhere, and we’re orbiting around the sun, spinning along one of the fingers of the Milky Way, moving in the Local Group that’s being pulled along with everything else in the Lanikea Supercluster towards the Great Attractor. Gravity pulls things toward another while the motion puts its …