Science
22 min
Gravity: The Weakest Force That Runs Everything
A fridge magnet beats the planet. So how does gravity run the universe?
Gravity is a trillion trillion times weaker than electromagnetism. A fridge magnet defeats the entire Earth, yet the same feeble force built every galaxy and shaped the cosmic web over 14 billion years. The story of why weakness, not strength, is what runs the largest things that exist.
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About Mythio
One story, one sitting.
Mythio is a library of audio documentaries on the ideas, people, and events that shaped the world. Each episode is researched across the best sources, fact-checked, and told in full. Most run twenty to thirty minutes, long enough to go deep, short enough to finish in one sitting.