Gravity is so universal. And I think this is very fundamental, it’s a phenomenon that affects everything, everyone, all the time, everywhere. It does absolutely everything: it connects everything and everyone. We all experience it in the same way, whether we are a person or a planet, a black hole or a balloon, a hammer, a feather, a piece of cheese, or a pumpkin seed. It’s something which is within us without us being able to defeat it. The feeling of weightlessness, the feeling of freefall is what gravity is. It is a complete freedom in itself.
— Read on www.theguardian.com/science/2024/apr/21/theoretical-physicist-claudia-de-rham-the-beauty-of-falling-gravity-book-interview
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