The world of the insect is very different from the world of us. You can't take an insect and make a human size version of it and have it have any success doing what it was as an insect. So if you're a particle, you would never discover that gravity exists. Unless you had an experiment that can measure to the precision of 40 powers of 10. And that ain't happening. Not on my car.
The pull of gravity (the force, not the movie) is irresistible as Neil deGrasse Tyson and Leighann Lord grapple with weighty fan questions about matter and the curvature of spacetime.
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