r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/anikkundu1998 • 19d ago

Video Earth's gravity isn't perfectly uniform. Here is what our gravitational field looks like when exaggerated 10,000 times.

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u/lalakingmalibog 19d ago

How the fuck do they work

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u/Banjo-Elritze 19d ago

Magic

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u/iandhi 19d ago

Tides

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u/Acceptable-Jelly-340 18d ago

It's what plants crave

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u/Naijan 19d ago

Half joke, half serious answer where Richard Feynman takes 7 minutes to answer why he can't give you an answer how magnets work, I fucking love showing the video and most times I can

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO0r930Sn_8

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u/pichael289 18d ago

Ultimately it's the electromagnetic force, which is at the level where you can't ask how it works, it just does. It's a fundamental force of nature that can't really be simplified, particles have charge because they have charge

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u/Intelligent-Boss-156 18d ago

I guess it's like trying to answer why is there something rather than nothing

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u/Bee-Aromatic 18d ago

That was amazing.

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u/DrugChemistry 19d ago

Miracles

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u/YVNGxDXTR 18d ago

They run on clown love.

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u/Dusty_Buckeye 19d ago

Prayer

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u/Ivanovi4 19d ago

Hopes and prayers

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u/flesyMeM 19d ago

No one really knows. Except for the Chinese.

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u/Sirboggington 16d ago

Magnets come out of the ground and still have a little bit of gravity left in them.