From The Royal Institution.

What makes gravity so important? And how does it work? Find out with Claudia de Rham, Professor of theoretical Physics.

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Claudia de Rham is a professor of theoretical physics at Imperial College London, a Simons Emmy Noether Visiting Fellow at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and an adjunct professor of physics at Case Western Reserve University. She researches gravity, particle physics, and cosmology, in pursuit of a more fundamental description of the nature of our universe. De Rham is a 2020 Simons Investigator in Physics, a 2020 Blavatnik Laureate in Physical Sciences and Engineering, and winner of the 2018 Adams Prize for contributions to Mathematics (previous winners include Stephen Hawking and James Clerk Maxwell). She and her research have been featured in the Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Quanta, and BBC’s “The Naked Scientists,” among other outlets, and she appeared in “Through the Wormhole,” a science documentary series hosted by Morgan Freeman. Find out more about Claudia here: https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/c.de-rham

00.00 Intro
00.10 Why is gravity different on different planets?
00:59 Why is gravity a non-contact force?
03:25 Why is gravity not a force?
04:20 Why is gravity so weak?
06:10 Why is gravity a theory?
08:01 Why is gravity called gravity?

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