Gravity – The Weakest Force in Charge of Everything

Podcast: Talking Science · Stavros kinnas

Opublikowano: 2026-10-13

Pick up a small fridge magnet and use it to lift a paperclip off the table, and you've just watched electromagnetism, working through a scrap of moulded plastic and metal, casually beat the gravitational pull of the entire planet Earth. Gravity is, by a staggering margin, the weakest of the four fundamental forces of nature — and yet it's the one that holds you to the ground, keeps the Moon circling Earth, and shapes the large-scale structure of the entire universe. This episode explores that paradox, from Newton's tidy law of universal gravitation through Einstein's stranger and more accurate picture of...