Gravity Doesn’t Work How You Think It Does, And Other Common Misconceptions

Most of us grew up believe that gravity is just the mass of two target attracting each other . We credibly still think that , really , since who spends their fourth dimension reading up on gravity ? Well , that ’s WRONG .

Our old friendMinutePhysicsexplains that gravitation is really based on energy and momentum , which means even light has gravity ( yeah yeah , supererogatory credit if you already knew that ) . So fundamentally : Suck it , Newton .

And also ? All of your word problems in sixth tier math stratum were wrong , because they did n’t calculate for the curvature of the Earth . [ MinutePhysics ]