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 Oh no, I hope I don't fall (insert cheesy music).... but you will, against your hopeless hope. We all fall, just like all objects, just like a water drop from the sky, just like the stock market in 2008. I'm sure you have heard this enough before (if you didn't bunk physics of course), but everything falls towards everything else. That means you're falling towards the long-forgotten single sock that's gathering dust and an impressive culture of microorganisms as we speak (as you read to be more precise). So the question of the month is: What is gravity? Boring things first: the definition. According to NASA SpacePlace, the space agency's site for kids, gravity is the force by which a planet or other body draws objects towards its centre. That's a simple enough explanation by an organization that deals in the complex. So there are these things in physics (that means they exist in the real world and universe) called 'fundamental forces'. These are the

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