Gravity

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Imagine a world where everything just floated away—the trees, your toys, even you! That would be a world without force! Forces are invisible pushes and pulls that make things move, stop, or stay in place.

One of the most important forces we experience every day is gravity. And believe it or not, the idea of gravity all started with a simple apple...

A long time ago, a scientist named Isaac Newton was sitting under an apple tree. Suddenly—plop!—an apple fell to the ground. Instead of just eating it, Newton started thinking: Why did the apple fall down instead of floating up? That question led to an idea that changed the way we understand the entire universe!

Newton realized that the apple fell because the Earth was pulling it down with an invisible force—gravity. Gravity is what keeps everything on the ground, from tiny insects to giant buildings. It’s the reason we don’t float away into space and why the planets orbit the Sun instead of drifting away.

Gravity is a force that pulls every object toward every other object. It’s happening all the time, everywhere in the universe. Right now, gravity is pulling you down toward the Earth, just like it’s keeping the Moon in orbit and holding the planets around the Sun.

Gravity is everywhere, but it doesn’t always have the same strength. The strength of gravity depends on two main things: mass and distance. The more mass something has, the stronger its gravity. That’s why Earth, which is huge, has stronger gravity than a small rock. And the closer you are to something with mass, the stronger its pull. That’s why we feel Earth’s gravity so strongly—it’s massive, and we live right on its surface!

If you’ve ever seen a skydiver jump from a plane, you’ve seen gravity in action. No matter how high they start, Earth’s gravity pulls them down toward the ground until a parachute slows them down and land safely on the Earth's surface.

Earth’s gravity is what keeps the air around us, holds the oceans in place, and makes rain fall back down instead of floating away. It shapes the way animals and plants grow, and it even affects how our bodies work. If we traveled to a place with weaker gravity, like the Moon, we would weigh much less and be able to jump much higher.

Gravity doesn’t just work on Earth—it holds the whole solar system together. The Sun is the biggest object in our solar system, with the most mass, so its gravity is incredibly strong. That’s why all the planets, including Earth, orbit around it instead of flying off into space.

Even though we can’t see gravity, we feel it all the time. Every time we jump, drop something, or see the Moon in the sky, we’re experiencing gravity at work. It’s one of the most important forces in the universe, keeping everything in balance—from falling apples to spinning planets!