#gravity

Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects. ↗

#contributing #factor #falling #gravity #involving

As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out. ↗

— Allen West

#afghan #army #both #carrying #challenge

As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore. ↗

— Edward Witten

#beyond #blocks #building #building blocks #equipment

There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical theory, it might be possible for the topology of spacetime to change. ↗

— Edward Witten

#classical #einstein #gravity #history #long

You may hate gravity, but gravity doesn't care. ↗

— Clayton Christensen

#gravity #hate #may #you

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#force #gravity #same

Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System. ↗

— Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

#earth #gravity #least #man #must

Strings of gravity vibrate at a different frequency than strings of light. ↗