Gravity- it’s known as the “weakest fundamental force”, but we know the “attraction” is really just objects falling along the curvature of space toward a more massive object. I don’t understand how this explanation of gravity relates to the other fundamental forces.
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TLDR; Terry Pratchett called this concept “Lies to Children”, where adults simplify things to help kids understand, but simplify them so much they become factually wrong.
Basically, someone back in the day thought “This is too hard to teach kids” (probably because they are shit at being a teacher. Kids are way smarter than you think) and so said “Let’s just call it a force because it works like one. They can learn how it really works in middle school.” Then that looped until you only learn about it in college physics, if you take that…
This happens for almost everything, by the way. It also happens for political reasons, why is why you have grown ass adults who don’t think the US Civil War was about slavery despite the documents written by the south used to declare their independence literally saying “Fuck you, we’re doing this to keep our slaves.”
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