Astrophysicist Explains Gravity in 5 Levels of Difficulty | WIRED
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Published 2019-12-20
Levin is the Claire Tow Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University and author of "Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space."
She is also the Chair and Director of Sciences at Pioneer Works, where this video was filmed. To learn more, visit pioneerworks.org/
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Astrophysicist Explains Gravity in 5 Levels of Difficulty | WIRED
All Comments (21)
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Level 1: What is gravity? Level 5: Why is gravity?
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"So, what have you learned?" - the most terrifying question known to mankind.
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Her ability to step down and competently explain the topic to a child all the way up to an expert is incredible. It's had as an expert to go back to basics and simplify. She does this incredibly.
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"That's such a good question!" is my favorite response to anything I've ever heard. She sounded so genuine, like she just wants to pass along the knowledge and not be superior about it. That's my ideal teacher, wish there were more like her.
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Level 7 , gravity explains itself to the astrophysicist
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level one: what they teach in class level five: what comes in the exam
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She’s that teacher we all want to listen to because of her passion which makes the subject more interesting
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I love listening to her explain Physics! She is so articulate and explains in a way that allows you to understand, not condescending and her passion is infectious.
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Little kid: gravity is easy Full PhD professor: we know nothing
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They should've had 6 levels for this video, which goes Flat Earther, Child, Teen, College Student, Graduate, and Expert.
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The child was really good but I think maybe they should have had two children. The one they had already had a pretty decent grasp of what gravity was. I think it would have been interesting to hear the expert explain it to a kid who knew quite a bit less.
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As an astrophysics student in college right now, this was both enlightening and honestly kind of inspiring and exciting to realize that I get to study all of these amazingly mind-boggling ideas everyday
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Level 6 - Alien explaining gravity to the Astrophysicist.
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This is a perfect example of "the more you learn about something the more you understand that you don't understand anything".
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I always liked the simple explanation of an orbit as "falling sideways fast enough that you miss the ground"
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Being told “we don’t have that yet” is absolutely terrifying yet interesting that we are still learning things today. Makes me wonder where technology and knowledge will be in say 50 or 100 years. Cool !
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The last interview looked like they were flirting in physics
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“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.” ― Albert Einstein:
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I love that kid, she has supportive parents who did the experiment with her 💕 Clearly she's being raised in a curious question-asking environment!
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That high school student had the exact initial explanation of gravity that the 5 year old had.
