• Question: What's stronger than gravity?

    Asked by widow to Chris, Hayley, Jimi on 17 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Chris Conselice

      Chris Conselice answered on 17 Mar 2016:


      Lots of things – electromagnetic forces are stronger — you can hold an object up with a magnetic which prevents it from falling to the earth due to gravity. The magnet in this since is stronger than the entire earth!

      There are other forces in atoms there are even stronger.

    • Photo: Jimi Wills

      Jimi Wills answered on 17 Mar 2016:


      Pretty much everything. Gravity is a “weak force”, and it takes a lot of mass (e.g. the whole earth) to make any considerable effect. People are still trying to understand why gravity it so weak.

    • Photo: Hayley Moulding

      Hayley Moulding answered on 17 Mar 2016:


      Me after the gym! No, of course not. Gravity is pretty weak. Gravity isn’t able to lift many things. Magnets, now they are very strong.

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