Sentence examples for gravity to explain from inspiring English sources

There have also been attempts to modify gravity to explain both cosmological and local observations without the need for dark energy.

Dr. Whipple proposed his "dirty snowball" theory in 1950, diverging from the popular belief then that comets were balls of sand held together by gravity, to explain why some periodic comets seemed to be pulled along by more than the force of gravity, arriving sooner or later than predicted.

The view is commonplace that what Newton did was to put forward his theory of gravity to explain Kepler's already established "laws" of orbital motion; and the universality of the law of gravity then ended up explaining the deviations from Keplerian motion by attributing them to gravitational interaction of the planets.

Why can't we happily continue to use our theory of gravity to explain the properties of galaxies (fig. 1) and of the universe as a whole (fig. 2), while using quantum mechanics to explain atoms (fig. 3) and the interactions of subatomic particles (fig. 4)?

Isaac Newton, the father of gravity, attempted to explain how the universe works with his mathematical equations.

But when scientists applied the laws of gravity to try to explain how fast nearby galaxies are rotating, the math didn't add up.

To explain gravity to a particularly vacant student, he jumps off his desk, only to be called out by the student for his sarcasm.

As an alternative to dark matter, modifications to gravity have been proposed to explain the apparent presence of "missing matter".

(Ether theories were also used to explain gravity beginning in the 17th century, but they did not have the popularity of those explaining the propagation of light).

It does not explain how gravity works and fails to explain other phenomena observed in the Universe.

The mechanisms proposed to explain gravity sensing can be divided into two groups, "statolith" and "non-statolith" mechanisms.