George Clooney Dies In The Beginning! Can You Guess?

   Hey guys, I'm back with another post, as promised! And if you haven't already figured out what we'll be discussing this week via my totally awesome #spoileralert title, I'll give you a hint: it's gravity! Okay, well maybe that's not much of a hint (since it's the answer), but moving on!
 



   Gravity is a natural phenomenon by which all physical bodies attract one another. Gravity is what pulls your baseball back to the ground if you throw it up in the air. The phrase "What goes up must come down" often comes to mind when discussing gravity.

   Now many of you may be familiar with Galileo Galilei's famous gravity experiment, but in case you aren't, we'll talk about it now. Galileo climbed to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa with two balls of different masses. He then took the two balls and dropped them at the same time from the same distance, his goal to prove Aristotle's theory that things fell faster depending on their masses false. He, of course, did, and discovered that the two objects fell with the same amount of acceleration.

   Did you know that the same day Galileo died, Sir Isaac Newton was born? This really brings that trite expression "When one door closes, another one opens" to life, doesn't it? Newton contributed greatly to the world of physics, one of them being gravity. There is a legend that Newton was one day sitting under an apple tree, and an apple fell on his head. He then began thinking "What force pulled that apple from the tree?". This is when he came up with his Universal Law of Gravitation. Part of his law states that the effect of gravity has to do with an objects mass and its distance from another object.

    Now let's stop for a minute. I've noticed that I have said the word mass quite a bit in this post. People sometimes confuse the words 'mass' and 'weight' with each other. If you are one of those people, I'll tell you the difference so you'll never have to worry or wonder again! Mass is the amount of space an object takes up, while weight is the measure of how heavy an object happens to be. Pretty simple, huh?
   Lastly, I would just like to stress just how important gravity is to us. If it weren't for gravity, we would all just float off aimlessly into space because there would be nothing to anchor us to the ground. Gravity affects anything and everything in the universe, and it keeps us on our beloved Earth.

That's it for this week! Hope this was

helpful for everyone! And go see Gravity;

it's pretty good!