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10 Places on Earth Where Gravity Behaves Strangely

Suhail Ahmed

  Stand on a hillside in California, a crater in India, or an ice sheet in Canada, and you might feel a force you’ve trusted your whole life start to misbehave. Balls roll “uphill,” plumb lines tilt, and satellites register tiny dips and humps in the planet’s pull. For decades, these spots were dismissed as ...

8 Places on Earth Where Gravity Seems to Be Broken

8 Places on Earth Where Gravity Seems to Be Broken

Andrew Alpin

Have you ever imagined stepping onto a surface where the fundamental laws of physics appear to bend before your eyes? Where water flows uphill, objects roll in the wrong direction, and your own body seems lighter or heavier than it should be? These aren’t scenes from a science fiction movie. They’re real places scattered across ...