For weeks, social feeds have been flooded with breathless warnings that Earth will briefly “turn off” gravity for seven seconds in August 2026, sending people and objects floating into the air. The ...
Emergent gravity is a bold idea. It claims that the force of gravity is a mere illusion, more akin to friction or heat—a property that emerges from some deeper physical interaction. This emergent ...
EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK, you can see gravity’s fingerprint. It’s in the path the moon takes around Earth each night and the humbling thump when you wipe out on an icy patch of sidewalk. The force of ...