Gravity
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Sep 23, 2026
Roger MelinNARRATOR
But the atoms which form the tail, being utmost without weight, yield to the electrical rather than to the gravitational influence and so fly away from the sun.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
Gravity overcome.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
Now what Mr. Edison had done was, in effect, to create an electrified particle which might be compared to one of the atoms composing the tail of a comet, although in reality it was kind of a car of metal, weighing some hundreds of pounds and capable of bearing some thousands of pounds with it in its flight.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
By producing, with the aid of the electrical generator contained in this car, an enormous charge of electricity, Mr. Edison was able to counterbalance, and a trifle more than counterbalance, the attraction of the earth, and thus to cause the car to fly off from the earth as an electrified pith ball flies from the prime conductor.
speaker_0HOST
Now the objective reality, the physical ticking of the atomic clock, has not changed by a single infinitesimal fraction.
speaker_0HOST
Gravity has not shifted.
speaker_0HOST
The Earth rotated at the exact same speed.
speaker_1HOST
The experience is totally different.
Abraham HicksHOST
We have to say as vibration is to attraction, not as attraction is to vibration.
Abraham HicksHOST
Gravity is the consistent that mass responds to.
Abraham HicksHOST
Vibration is the consistent that everything else responds to.
Abraham HicksHOST
So your equation was flipped a little bit.
speaker_0HOST
Okay, I follow that.
speaker_1HOST
Gravity pulled matter into those slightly denser, slightly cooler spots, sparking the first galaxies.
speaker_1HOST
In a strict mathematical information theoretic sense, the universe achieved an archival state.
speaker_1HOST
It encoded its initial conditions into a permanent, readable thermal record.
Dustin NemosHOST
He said, "'Tis inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should, without mediation of something else which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must be if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it.
Dustin NemosHOST
And this is one reason why I desired you would not ascribe innate gravity to me, that gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it.
Dustin NemosHOST
Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws, but whether this agent is blah blah...
Dustin NemosHOST
Anyway, the point is here, without finishing the whole quote, he's saying that you're an idiot if you believe this.
Dustin NemosHOST
Newton's telling you it is an absurdity and nobody with competent faculty, which means a working brain, an old talk of thinking, would ever fall into it.
speaker_2HOST
It's unimaginable.
speaker_2HOST
Gravity follows an inverse square law.
speaker_2HOST
It weakens rapidly with distance.
speaker_2HOST
But when a planet is crammed that incredibly close to a massive body like a star, the gravitational gradient across the actual diameter of the planet is immense.
speaker_4GUEST
The Dark Ages ended when the first structures began to form.
speaker_4GUEST
Gravity pulled this neutral gas into dense pockets, eventually igniting the first galaxies and, crucially, those massive population III stars.
speaker_3HOST
The pioneers.
speaker_4GUEST
Right.
speaker_3HOST
It all boils down to a fundamental ongoing battle between gravity and heat.
speaker_4GUEST
Always.
speaker_4GUEST
Gravity and heat.
speaker_3HOST
Picture a primordial gas cloud in the early universe.
Ian CrosslandHOST
No, that's not guessing.
Ian CrosslandHOST
Gravity's pretty strong, especially near the core, near the surface.
David WeissGUEST
Near the surface.
David WeissGUEST
So if I got a box of air, and I got a box of air, and I brought it into a room on the Earth that's a vacuum, so there's no air on the outside of it, and I poked a hole in the top, is the gravity going to hold the air in there? No.
Tim PoolHOST
You're saying you can't prove it.
Tim PoolHOST
It's like, what do you mean? I can...
Tim PoolHOST
Gravity's there.
Tim PoolHOST
What about a balloon? What about a balloon? So the issue is you're not disproving it saying you can't prove it.
Jacob PraschHOST
But because of the law of buoyancy, it's going to pop out.
Jacob PraschHOST
The law of gravity has been suspended.
Jacob PraschHOST
Gravity becomes inoperative because of the air pressure inside the balloon.
Jacob PraschHOST
It's like a helium balloon.
Jacob PraschHOST
It's lighter than atmospheric air.
Jacob PraschHOST
You can put the balloon under the water, but it's going to pop right out again.
Jacob PraschHOST
The law has been suspended.
Jacob PraschHOST
Gravity was suspended with the balloon.
speaker_5HOST
It really is.
speaker_5HOST
Gravity is the most obvious force in our macroscopic lives, yet it is the most theoretically problematic.
speaker_4HOST
Okay, I want you, our listener, to imagine picking up a small, cheap fridge magnet.
speaker_4HOST
You know, like the Kong you get for free from a local plumber.
speaker_5HOST
It is a profound observation and it highlights one of the deepest, most troubling unsolved problems in modern science.
speaker_1ADVERTISER
Which is?
speaker_5HOST
Gravity is the force that dictates the architecture of the cosmos.
speaker_5HOST
It holds whole galaxies together.
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