Every time a coffee mug drops, a satellite orbits or an astronaut floats, we are watching the same phenomenon play out under very different disguises. For centuries we have treated gravity as the ...
Gravity, as most people understand it, is the familiar force that pulls a falling apple toward Earth. But for astronomers and ...
All fundamental forces operating on astronomical scales exhibit a decrease in strength with increasing distance. A hypothetical force, decreasing with distance slower than the inverse square law, ...
Everything in the universe has gravity – and feels it too. Yet this most common of all fundamental forces is also the one that presents the biggest challenges to physicists. Albert Einstein’s theory ...
Levon Pogosian receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Camille Bonvin receives funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European ...