Journey Through Time Introducing: The Rest Is Science
Dec 5, 2025
Dive into the bizarre world of reality where familiar concepts vanish under scrutiny. Discover how curiosity fuels science by sharpening questions. Learn to explain gravity to an alien and explore its strange effects—like tiny attractions between us! Unpack Newton's views and Einstein's groundbreaking ideas about spacetime. Ever wondered how gravity impacts time? Find out how living in Boulder makes you age a fraction faster than in Greenwich! Join this captivating exploration that proves reality is stranger than fiction.
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Curiosity Reframes Familiar Ideas
- The Rest Is Science will reexamine familiar concepts by exposing hidden patterns and logic beneath them.
- Hosts Hannah Fry and Michael Stevens invite curiosity-driven questioning rather than polished answers.
Gravity Is Mutual and Universal
- Gravity is mutual: objects attract each other, so small masses also pull larger ones like Earth, albeit minutely.
- Hannah Fry illustrates this by calculating two baseballs a meter apart would meet after about three days due to gravity.
Doctor's Gravity Beats Astrology
- Hannah Fry jokes that the delivering doctor exerts more gravitational influence on a newborn than distant zodiac constellations.
- She uses this to mock astrological claims with a concrete physical comparison.