Make gravity your bitch

Gravity is the weakest fundamental force, yes. At least, at relatively close distances. The advantage gravity has is that it never quite goes away, no matter how far you are.
- So it's like humans? 🤔
  We aren't particularly strong or fast, but we became apex predators because we never. Stop. Coming.
  
  Also, we, never, stop, cumming.
  
  Can you imagine being those antelope being hunted by early human ancestors -
  "Ok, bob, we just bolted at 40mph for a minute or so, they're not going to find us again."
  "Clarice, you said that the last 8 times and they still showed up! They're unnatural! They just keep following and following us! Alex smashed his shin that last run, and I don't know how many more times I can run myself! We're doomed Clarice! Doomed!"
  
  Exactly. Raise your hand. Great, you overcame gravity for a second. Keep your hand raised for a minute. 10 minutes. An hour. Fuck, gravity doesn't stop. It's exactly like us.
  
  about to make ourselves go away though.
- I mean yeah but also you reverse that square enough and it's effectively zero
  
  But never actually zero, unlike those other quitter "forces"
- The advantage gravity has is that it never quite goes away, no matter how far you are.
  That's true of all the fundamental forces, though. They all drop off over distance with inverse square laws. Like if you had two lone electrons in an otherwise empty universe, their electromagnetic repulsion would also persist indefinitely at 1/r^2 strength, just like gravity. The difference is that our universe has near-perfect charge neutrality at large scales.
- Electromagnetic doesn't go away either. It's that damn negavite charge neutralizing the stuff.
- Aren't all forces subject to the inverse square law?
  
  Dipoles are, effectively, not --- so if you have a charged bit and another opposite charged bit, while an inverse relationship might exist between either one, the net effect is that it drops off much faster.
  The thing with gravity is it tends to go one way, unlike, say, charge.
- Sounds like a stalker.

Yeah, go ahead, how long can you keep it up? The earth can wait longer than you.
- Challenge accepted
- Just lost faith in my muscles
  
  There goes all our bragging about humanity's physical superpower being endurance.

Gravity’s so powerful, it’s letting you win this round just to remind you who’s really in charge when you drop your phone

Say that to gravity when you start even 5m above the ground.
- Gravity ain't shit. It's not the falling that kills you, it's the impact at the bottom. Which are electromagnetic forces.
  
  Well the electromagnetic forces in your bones are no match for the accumulated energy of a few seconds of gravity.
- The thing is, you need an entire planet to make falling hurt, and jumping is still easy. Meanwhile, if you have two tiny magnets they can pull on each other so strongly that you can never get them apart again.

Weak you say?... See those merging black holes? Proceeds to casually dissapear 3 solar masses in less than a second... Yeah.
- Which is still just a small fraction of the total mass of the black holes
  If it were the electromagnetic force that pulled them together it would be so much more violent and send out deadly gamma rays
  
  But that will never happen, because electromagnetic forces haven't learned the power of friendship and co-operation. Gravity always works together, but the other fickle fundamental forces just can't decide if they are pushing or pulling or whatever.

Now keep this hand raised for an hour. Who's the bitch now ?
- If it takes your an hour to wear me down, you're weak. No matter how inexhaustible your power is.
  
  How about 10 minutes ? World record is 9.
  https://exactlyhowlong.com/how-long-can-a-person-hold-their-arms-up-and-why/
  
  Oh don't worry, it will be way less than an hour :P
  
  Lower strength, but far more endurance.

thats just because the gravitational pull of your hand is weak shit.
Get more mass, massless nerd.
- In a system where gravity is pulling on your hand, which is stronger, the force of the earth pulling in your hand, or the force of your hand pulling on the Earth?
  Answer: it's a trick question. In such a system, both sides feel the force equally
  
  if we're talking gravity physics, the earth, by basically every possible kilogram of mass imaginable to the human mind. But this goes without saying, because you stick to the earth, the earth doesn't stick to you, so.
  Of course technically, the force is applied to both objects, but considering the scale mismatch, one of these things is not like the other.

I just overcame the gravitational pull of the entire planet with my dick.
- If your dick overcomes the gravitational pull of the entire planet for more than four hours, seek medical attention
- username checks out
- Referring to your girlfriend that way is not very nice.
- Your dick also overcame the gravitational pull of all other dicks.

Back issues are Gravity's revenge.

You didn’t overcome it, you spend some energy that the earth will eventually get back.
Unless you leave earth, gravity will eventually win.
- The house always wins.
- They are launching objects to space accidentally, doing it intentionally cant be that hard
  
  Nobody trips, falls, and detonates a nuke.
- Can’t even win then. Gravity isn’t just on earth. It’s a universal force.
- If you're hot enough and place a mirror below you blackbody radiation should do a pretty good job at preventing that. If you're not that hot you might need extra patience and without the mirror it might not be too effective.
  Now that I think about it this might be considered as parts of oneself leaving earth though.
  
  I know just the man for the job…

This unlocked a song that has been buried in my mind for YEARS:
Now some of you may think that gravity is strong Cuz when you fall Off your bicycle It don't take long Until you hit the earth And you say, "Dang that hurt!"
But if you think the force Is powerful You're wrong
You see, gravity It's weaker than weak!
And the reason why Is something many Scientists seek
They think about dimensions We live in just three But maybe there are others That are too small to see
It's into these dimensions that gravity extends Which makes it seem weaker here on our end
And these dimensions are rolled up, curled so tight That they don't affect you in your day-to-day life
But if you were as tiny as a graviton You could enter these dimensions and go wandering on And they'd find you...
LHCb sees where the antimatter's gone, ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions
- Oh, a song from the time superstrings were still cool?
  
  A brave little theory, and actually quite coherent for a system of five or seven dimensions — if only we lived in one.
- Wasn't this in Particle Fever? That doc is incredible.
- "Gravity is weaker than weak" is such a strong line.

Did he just tough-talk the curvature of space-time?

And now jump in the air and escape the gravitational pull.
12 kilometers straight up.
150 km.
Gravity not so weak now, huh?
- It's still weak, just like humans are still slow.
  At least compared to other animals.
  But like gravity, we just keep going. And going. And going.
  And when the animals we hunted collapsed from exhaustion, we just kept coming. And then took it all the way back we came.
  Just like gravity.
  We can try to keep going until we just can't anymore, but gravity will just grab us and haul us back.
  Compared to the other forces, gravity is a weak ass bitch.
- Also not so weak if you find yourself at a height in the air.

Yeah keep it up for 10 mins and we talking again.

And still it is powerful enough to completely close off parts of the universe from the rest. Truly fascinating.

True, however… as you press into this planet, this planet presses into you.

Yeah but ain’t no motherfucker gonna soon be jumping over onto the moon with pure human leg power. Still gotta detonate a slowly exploding bomb under our asses to leave this rock-covered ball bearing.

Overcome? The hand is clearly still under the effect of gravity as it is not flowing into the space. It just decelerates a tiny bit.

Supermassive Blackholes: "Gravity is weak, huh?"

Not to "Ermmm acshually" but you haven't overcome the gravitational pull you've just counteracted it.
Overcoming it is significantlly more difficult.
The swirly line forms to the left.
- "Not to um actually, but actually" should be the new um actually

As a kid I used to dream that I could levitate by sort of straining my muscles upward and lifting myself away from the ground. It would be pretty cool to do that IRL.
- Funny, I had a similar series of dreams as a kid like that. I just sort of learned to ‘walk upwards’ and levitate.
  
  Mine was that if I curled up into a ball I would float like a helium balloon lol.
  
  omg that was you? We could have played quidditch!
- I used to contemplate jumping in the air, then quickly using my foot to spring upward off of my other leg/foot, and repeating that until I've reached a desired elevation.

Pathetic. I can easily overcome the gravitational pull of all the milky way just with my pinkie.

Oh, should be no problem for you to leave earth then

Lifts cup of tea
PHEW I'm done for the day.
- Lucky you. I struggle to fight gravity getting out of bed.
  
  Same same, but I want my cuppa so...

Then gravity reminds you who's boss the next time you trip over your own feet

Nope. Gravity goes both ways. Actually it's the curve of space time pushing you toward another mass. And you can only overcome because your mass is puny next to the earth.

what does gravity even bench?

Gravity is the only fundamental force that can bend time tho
- Isn't it the other way around? Mass bends spacetime and gravity is the result?

I read this in the voice of Charlie from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

I thought the parliamentarian struck down the law of gravity

The face of the earth when I lift a finger: :o

Magnetic force is hilariously weak. Go ahead and raise your hand. You literally just over came the magnetic pull of the ENTIRE EARTH.
- Bro is made of iron
  
  turned to steel in a great magnetic field
  
  I'm built different 🦾

"Skiing is not hard, it's mostly gravity." - the alien on Resident Alien

Honest noob science question: is gravity as defined with Einstein's space-time time definition mean it ceases to be an actual "force" ...? Like, two masses affecting each other through gravity is not like two magnets but rather space-time "bending"?
- it's still a force, produced by a field (in this case curvature), although alternative opinions are available: (linky to pbs spacetime)

I think this is a reprehensible attitude towards gravy.
"Make gravy your bitch"; didn't you ever enjoy a lovely meal with the savory sauce of gravy over biscuits or perhaps a meat of your choice?
Terribly disrespectful!
- Not gravy. Op was talkng about gravy tea.
  
  Gravy tea, so bovril?