And still it is powerful enough to completely close off parts of the universe from the rest. Truly fascinating.
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Gravity is the weakest fundamental force, yes. At least, at relatively close distances. The advantage gravity has is that it never quite goes away, no matter how far you are.
I mean yeah but also you reverse that square enough and it's effectively zero
But never actually zero, unlike those other quitter "forces"
Is that actually true? I'm not an expert but I thought all forces extend our into infinity. I thought we just allowed them to go to 0 at a certain radius for the sake of making the math manageable.
Not the person you replied to, and not really an expert either, but I can tell you that the W and Z bosons (force carriers for the weak force) are very short lived and can only travel through space so far before they decay. This effectively puts a cap on the distance of weak interactions.
Strong force is the same.
I don't know if it's shorter than the weak force, but you gotta be in an atom's nucleus to experience it
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Nah, at some point the simulation we live in is going to round down to save computing power.
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So it's like humans? 🤔
We aren't particularly strong or fast, but we became apex predators because we never. Stop. Coming.
Can you imagine being those antelope being hunted by early human ancestors -
"Ok, bob, we just bolted at 40mph for a minute or so, they're not going to find us again."
"Clarice, you said that the last 8 times and they still showed up! They're unnatural! They just keep following and following us! Alex smashed his shin that last run, and I don't know how many more times I can run myself! We're doomed Clarice! Doomed!"
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Electromagnetic doesn't go away either. It's that damn negavite charge neutralizing the stuff.
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And now jump in the air and escape the gravitational pull.
12 kilometers straight up.
- 150 km.
Gravity not so weak now, huh?
It's still weak, just like humans are still slow.
At least compared to other animals.
But like gravity, we just keep going. And going. And going.
And when the animals we hunted collapsed from exhaustion, we just kept coming. And then took it all the way back we came.
Just like gravity.
We can try to keep going until we just can't anymore, but gravity will just grab us and haul us back.
Compared to the other forces, gravity is a weak ass bitch.
Supermassive Blackholes: "Gravity is weak, huh?"
I just overcame the gravitational pull of the entire planet with my dick.
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If your dick overcomes the gravitational pull of the entire planet for more than four hours, seek medical attention
Referring to your girlfriend that way is not very nice.
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Gravity’s so powerful, it’s letting you win this round just to remind you who’s really in charge when you drop your phone
You didn’t overcome it, you spend some energy that the earth will eventually get back.
Unless you leave earth, gravity will eventually win.
The house always wins.
Can’t even win then. Gravity isn’t just on earth. It’s a universal force.
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Gravity is the only fundamental force that can bend time tho
Isn't it the other way around? Mass bends spacetime and gravity is the result?
Then gravity reminds you who's boss the next time you trip over your own feet
Lifts cup of tea
PHEW I'm done for the day.
Lucky you. I struggle to fight gravity getting out of bed.
Same same, but I want my cuppa so...
Did he just tough-talk the curvature of space-time?
Magnetic force is hilariously weak. Go outside and raise your hand. You just over came the magnetic force of the Entire Earth.
This unlocked a song that has been buried in my mind for YEARS:
Now some of you may think that gravity is strong Cuz when you fall Off your bicycle It don't take long Until you hit the earth And you say, "Dang that hurt!"
But if you think the force Is powerful You're wrong
You see, gravity It's weaker than weak!
And the reason why Is something many Scientists seek
They think about dimensions We live in just three But maybe there are others That are too small to see
It's into these dimensions that gravity extends Which makes it seem weaker here on our end
And these dimensions are rolled up, curled so tight That they don't affect you in your day-to-day life
But if you were as tiny as a graviton You could enter these dimensions and go wandering on And they'd find you...
LHCb sees where the antimatter's gone, ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions
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Pathetic. I can easily overcome the gravitational pull of all the milky way just with my pinkie.
As a kid I used to dream that I could levitate by sort of straining my muscles upward and lifting myself away from the ground. It would be pretty cool to do that IRL.
Funny, I had a similar series of dreams as a kid like that. I just sort of learned to ‘walk upwards’ and levitate.
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I read this in the voice of Charlie from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
I think this is a reprehensible attitude towards gravy.
"Make gravy your bitch"; didn't you ever enjoy a lovely meal with the savory sauce of gravy over biscuits or perhaps a meat of your choice?
Terribly disrespectful!
Say that to gravity when you start even 5m above the ground.
Gravity ain't shit. It's not the falling that kills you, it's the impact at the bottom. Which are electromagnetic forces.
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Yeah but ain’t no motherfucker gonna soon be jumping over onto the moon with pure human leg power. Still gotta detonate a slowly exploding bomb under our asses to leave this rock-covered ball bearing.
Nope. Gravity goes both ways. Actually it's the curve of space time pushing you toward another mass. And you can only overcome because your mass is puny next to the earth.