I am no science student.

You know you're a social science student as soon as any equation or exact answer has to come into effect. I am spending my 4 year Mount Allison Degree, working on a major in Anthropology(The science that deals with the origins, physical and cultural development, biological characteristics, and social customs and beliefs of humankind.) So how did i get myself in this predicament you might ask yourself? During a 4 year degree, you must take 2 science courses to graduate and i was told that this would be the most interesting out of all of them ( Not informing me that there is math involved in the process to gaining the distribution course). I bring up the math because, it has been almost 3 entire years since i had to do an equation more then two lines long(it might sound pathetic but, its true!) This is my adventure and i invite you to follow me through the good times and the bad(hopefully they are all good, but i am a realist! :P)
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Dear Newton, what do you mean by Universal Law of Gravitation?

 Oh Newton, what are we going to do without you. Well i know ill be fine, but lets try to explain your law.
Okay lets break this down shall we, that way non science oriented people can understand this.
So the concept basically entails that every particle of matter in the universe, attracts ever other part of matter. Confusing?? I know. I feel the same way. Lets blame it on the Apple! But, lets continue. 

So here is the equation!!



What is all these numbers and letters mean you must ask yourself, i know i did!

  • F is the force between the masses,
  • G is the gravitation constant
  • m1 is the first mass,
  • m2 is the second mass, and
  • r is the distance between the masses.
A formula still used today, but if you don't understand this, well to make you feel better, Newton did not know how gravity actually works! But, Einstein did! Check this video out!


Our textbook features 3 simple statements that are suppose to help summarize this law!

Here it goes!

---- " Every mass attracts every other mass through the force called gravity"
--- " The strength of gravitational force attracting any two objects is directly proportional to the product of their masses. For example, doubling the mass of one object doubles the force of gravity between the two objects"
-- Finally!!! I know, i know! " The strength of gravity between two objects decreases with the square of the distance between their centers. We therefore say that the gravitational force follows an inverse square law. For example, doubling the distance between two objects weakens the force of gravity by factor of 2^2, or 4.


The way i understand this science law is that 1. its not in our constitution, so you can't get arrested if you don't want to follow it! Always a good fact. Lets take the planet and stars for example, we rotate on our axis, revolving. But, what stops us from flying away into the cold dark galaxy, is the kinda formal space agreement between planets, stars, etc, that says everyone has their own boundary, you may not cross! If we did not have this agreement or "gravity", nothing would stay in place. You put that bike down and it would fall through the ground into the obis, how happy would you're parents be then? Like to magnets when you put the wrong side together, they push away from each other, but they can also attract each other, that's kinda like this gravity thing, hopefully haha. So much explanation, hope this all made sense if not,  take a social science degree, no math really required!

Maybe archaeology? Can find some of these haha.Their working that gravity haha.

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