8 November

The single biggest misunderstanding about gravity I think is that you can feel it. You can’t. What people think is feelings of weight in their bodies is not their weight - you can’t feel your weight either. Gravity never ‘weighs you down’ - these astronauts have pretty much full gravity acting on them. What we experience as weight is contact forces with surfaces we come into contact with. And yet many go through every day ‘fighting’ gravity, thinking they have to hold themselves up against it.