261. Jim Al-Khalili on the Joy of Science
The Michael Shermer Show
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What Is Gravity?
Gravitational field is a different kind of force, whatever you mean by that word force, right? Yes. We can think of gravity through, you know, as exchange of gravitons, the quantum particles of the gravitational field. A lot of physicists in modern day don't talk about fields. Where space time is flat, the gravitational field is very weak. But where space time is curved, because it's been curved by matter or energy, we say the gravitational field has strong influence there. Get it? O, ok, so it's the shape of space time, ok, i get you. Noa, not everything motold physics is easy to convey in a few words
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