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How would you describe gravity to an alien from another universe that had never experienced gravity?

The simplest way to think of it is that in our universe, objects are attracted to each

other. And if you, without any interfering from outside, if you just have two objects near each

other, they will come together. That's it. I mean, that's it, really. And at this point,

the alien goes, what? That is so odd. Right. And what do you mean by an object?

Anything with mass. Anything with mass. Because I think that we sort of imagine gravity as though it's like the Earth is pulling us down. But the thing is, is that we're also pulling the Earth up, right? And if you get much small objects than planets and you put them in space,

they're pulling each other and will come together. That's right. Yeah, I once calculated the two

baseballs placed in intergalactic space. A meter apart would very slowly collapse in towards each other

until they touched.

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