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Hello, we have ways listeners. I'm Michael Stevens and I'm Professor Hannah Frye. And firstly, thank you to Alan Jim for letting us take over their channel just to tell you about

our new show for Golhanger, the rest is science.

Every week we take a fresh look at the familiar. We're going to be exploring the forces,

the theories and the phenomena that shape how we live in, think about and see the world. We're going

to pull apart what we take for granted to reveal the unexpected patterns and hidden logic just beneath

the surface.

Because that's what moves science forward.

Not the polishing of answers, but the sharpening of questions.

It's curiosity that sparks those, hey, wait, how does that actually work kind of a moment

that changes the way we see the world?

So okay, here is a little glimpse of what is to come from our podcast.

And if it sparks something unexplainable for you, then you can join us every Tuesday and

Thursday for new episodes of the rest of science.

And we'll figure it out together.

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?

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