Story of Gravity
We are so familiar with the natural events that we have witnessed every moment since the day we are born, so it becomes unthinkable to examine the laws of nature which are in the background of those events. The best example of this is gravity. As the Norwegian writer Jostein Gaarder expresses in Sofie's World, a baby at the breakfast table is not amazed so much if she sees her father fly away from the table. Because everything is already a surprise for that baby, everything is new and interesting. However, if the mother turns back and sees her husband in the air, she will scream from amazement. Because she has not seen anything that is contrary to gravity until that day. Gravitation is such a natural phenomenon that we have got used to. However, the brave and intelligent people who search for what is the force that attracts objects to the ground are rarely encountered in history. Ancient Solar System Models Today we know that the active force which is responsible of the moveme...