tags: gravity

2008

June

2008 Jun 25
always struggling against gravity

I woke up with this song in my head

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2016

February

2016 Feb 12
Gravity

Social media was abuzz with the news that gravitational waves have been detected.

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2016 Feb 19
Nicolaus Copernicus

The irony is that Copernicus set forth his model of heliocentrism without any empirical evidence whatsoever, and his model was less accurate than Ptolemy's geocentric model in making predictions of planetary positions and he got the shape of orbits wrong (he thought they were circular and they're actually very slightly elliptical).

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