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Research About Gravity
Research About Gravity
although there is much question regarding whether it truly occurred. Did Galileo, in
1589, drop items of varying masses from the Leaning Tower of Pisa to demonstrate the
theories outlined in his unpublished text motion? Galileo, tradition has it, dropped
weights from the Leaning Tower of Pisa to demonstrate that gravity causes things of
various masses to fall with the same acceleration. In recent years, scientists have taken
to duplicating this test in ways that the Italian scientist could never have imagined – by
dumping atoms.
A new study provides the most delicate atom-drop test to date, demonstrating
that Galileo's gravity experiment is still valid – even for individual atoms. Physicists
claim in a work in print in Physical Review Letters that two distinct kinds of atoms had
the same acceleration within a part per trillion. However, in reality, because to the
effects of air resistance, Galileo would not have been able to properly illustrate his
hypothesis. When we remove the atmosphere, we can easily validate Galileo's prediction
that any two things, regardless of weight, shape, or material of composition, would fall
Indeed, the science may be common knowledge, but seeing it in action is indeed
pretty mind blowing. A lot of things here in our environment may sometimes made us
curious but let us not forget that every being in this world has its own background
information, therefore let’s us take a time to examine those things that made us curious.
It is because based on a saying “curiosity is the key to problem solving”, it is the door for