gravitation

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Jones did it by showing that Ricardo had made these universal rules that he said were as certain as the principle of gravitation.

From Salon • Feb. 1, 2025

"The challenge of unifying quantum mechanics with the theory of gravitation remains one of the most pressing unsolved problems in physics," said co-author Benjamin Jones, associate professor of physics.

From Science Daily • May 2, 2024

While TV station owners are enjoying the changing tide by picking up valuable sports programming, they know the audience’s gravitation to streaming is not going to reverse.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 11, 2023

Pinkie’s gravitation toward the blues, a genre defined by Black artists and legacies of racial injustice, is partly a product of circumstance and osmosis.

From New York Times • May 4, 2023

He occupied himself by inventing the differential and integral calculus, making fundamental discoveries on the nature of light and laying the foundation for the theory of universal gravitation.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan