I just think it's fascinating that it's such a fundamental force in the universe, right?

Like it's basically the thing that builds galaxies and keeps planets moving, right?

And gives structure to the entire cosmos.

That's right, on the largest scales, actually the most important forces.

The reason why things look the way they do, it's the reason why our planet is round,

it's the reason why we're on the planet, it's pretty important.

And yet we don't know a lot about it, right?

Like there's some really deep and strange mysteries about it.

On one hand, we have a theory which works really, really well.

On the other hand, we have questions about it, which seem really, really basic.

And not only that, it's very different than all the other forces of nature.

That's right, one of these things is not like the other ones.

Hi, I'm Jorge, I'm a cartoonist.

And I'm Daniel, I'm a particle physicist.

And this is our podcast, Daniel and Jorge, explain the universe.

In which a cartoonist and a physicist try to figure out how to make the universe understandable to anybody.

Yeah.

And today on the podcast, we are examining a very heavy topic.

Gravity.

And specifically, why is gravity so weak?

And strange.

Gravity, as we said earlier, is something which controls the structure of the universe.

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