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3 unusual facts about Gravity


Gravity: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Gravity: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album of the 3D space drama film Gravity, written and conducted by British film composer Steven Price.

The Blow Out

Thomas Pynchon refers to the cartoon involving "Porky Pig and the anarchist" several times in his novels The Crying of Lot 49 (Vintage, 2000, p63) and Gravity's Rainbow.

Woman in the Moon

Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, which deals with the V-2 rockets, refers to this, along with several other classic German silent films.


Abram Ioffe

In 1911 he (independently of Millikan) determined the electron charge, using charged microparticles of metals balanced in electric field against gravity (published in 1913).

Absent-minded professor

Examples in film of absent-minded professors include "Doc" Emmett Brown from Back to the Future, the title character in the film The Absent-Minded Professor and its less successful film remakes all based on the short story A Situation of Gravity, by Samuel W. Taylor, as well as Professor Farnsworth of Futurama and Professor Frink in The Simpsons.

Active sitting

Hypotonia is low muscle tone, resulting in an inability to sustain controlled movement of the body against gravity, and can often manifest as poor trunk control.

American Choreography Awards

“Dance is a barometer of our culture. I want scholars, but more importantly, kids and students, to know how and where these movements came from- that the Nicholas Brothers are tied to break-dancing, and that Astaire by defying gravity, leads to The Matrix Choreography.” – Larry Billman

Arthur Komar

Later in 1957, he went to Syracuse University as a postdoc to research quantum gravity - collaborating with Peter Bergmann, and remained at Syracuse as assistant professor and associate professor, until 1963 when he left to join the Physics Department at Yeshiva University in New York City.

Canadia: 2056

Accompanying Rhodes' voiceover at the start of each episode is an instrumental interpretation of the song Life on Mars? At the end of each episode, the credits are read over the song "Gravity", taken from the Max Webster album High Class in Borrowed Shoes.

Cassiber

After Harth left they recorded two more albums, Perfect Worlds (1986) and A Face We All Know (1990), the latter dealing with issues surrounding the collapse of the Berlin Wall and incorporating texts from Thomas Pynchon's 1973 novel Gravity's Rainbow.

Cornubian batholith

From gravity and magnetic geophysical data, the batholith is interpreted to extend from about 8°W, more than 100 km southwest of the Isles of Scilly, to the eastern edge of Dartmoor.

Cube 2: Hypercube

The Cube is actually a tesseract; it has the unlimited number of rooms, each of them are high-tech built, and the Cube itself controls gravity, time, illusion and reality.

Cybertron

Cybertron is described in the first issue of the Marvel comic book as being the size of Saturn, which would logically mean it possessed incredibly dense gravity, and yet it did not, possibly as a result of its hollow structure, honeycombed as it is by tunnels.

Dunlin oilfield

This platform is a concrete gravity platform of the Condeep type.

Enigmo

The game takes place in outer space, specifically near Earth, Mars, Saturn, and asteroids, but gravity functions as it would on earth.

Éric Boullier

At the end of 2008, Boullier became the CEO of Gravity Sport Management, where he was in charge of many young drivers including Ho-Pin Tung, Adrien Tambay, Jérôme d'Ambrosio and Christian Vietoris.

Extended Duration Orbiter

Since space travelers may faint when they stand up (orthostatic intolerance) after returning to normal gravity even after short flights, and muscle strength may be reduced, the EDOMP project focused on ensuring that the crew could land the orbiter, and exit from it without help after a 16-day flight.

Fred Tomaselli

His painting, 'Gravity In Four Directions', was also used as partial cover artwork for The Magnetic Fields' album "i".

Gravity assist

STEREO: a gravity-assisted mission which used Earth's Moon to eject two spacecraft from Earth's orbit into heliocentric orbit

Gravity boots

Today, gravity boots are used by the U.S. Army and have experienced a surge in popularity in 2006 with Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown praising them as well.

Insu

Insituform, British provider of trenchless technologies for gravity and pressure pipelines

Laramie Potts

He and von Frese used gravity measurements by NASA's GRACE satellites to identify a 200 mile (300 km) wide mass concentration.

Little Albert experiment

In Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, the Infant Tyrone's penile erections are conditioned in a manner modeled on Watson and Rayner's conditioning of Little Albert, to both satirize behaviorism and wind the book's plot around Pynchon's themes of control and the institutional corruption of innocence.

Local reference frame

When constructing his general theory of relativity, Einstein made the following observation: a freely falling object in a gravitational field will not be able to detect the existence of the field by making local measurements ("a falling man feels no gravity").

Magnetorotational instability

In addition to hydrodynamical forces such as pressure and gravity, an element of magnetized fluid also feels the Lorentz force \boldsymbol J\times\boldsymbol B\ , where \boldsymbol J is the current density and \boldsymbol B is the magnetic field vector.

Metacentric

Metacentric height: the distance between the center of gravity of a ship and its metacenter

Mike Stubbs

Filmed in Zero Gravity as part of a research trip organised by The Arts Catalyst, Commissioned by PVA for SWIPE Festival.

Misverstand Dam

Misverstand Dam is a combined gravity & arch type dam located on the Berg River, near Porterville, Western Cape, South Africa.

Muhammad X

Muhammad X is the self-proclaimed protector of Harlem NY, using his ability to alter density and gravity to protect the community.

Niv Adiri

Adiri and his fellow sound engineers are nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound for the 2013 film Gravity.

Norton Manx

The major 1954 upgrade to the Manx was to have been a laid-down engine design, with lower centre of gravity – along the lines of the Moto Guzzi and Benelli racers.

Oh! Gravity.

The concept of Oh! Gravity. originally began as a short EP recording.

Parody science

The Sokal Affair, physicist Alan Sokal's hoax paper entitled, "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" was published in the journal Social Text.

Pliny Chase

In 1864 the Magellanic gold medal of the American Philosophical Society was awarded him for his Numerical Relations of Gravity and Magnetism.

Propulsion

In terrestrial environments gravity must be overcome, though the drag of air is much less of an issue.

Pyromorphite

Varieties containing calcium isomorphously replacing lead are lower in density (specific gravity 5.9 - 6.5) and usually lighter in color; they bear the names polysphaerite (because of the globular form), miesite from Mies in Bohemia, nussierite from Nuizière, Chénelette, near Beaujeu, Rhône, France, and cherokine from Cherokee County in Georgia.

RESQ

Instead, RESQ had at one time negotiated with Gravity Motorsports, a subsidiary of Gravity Entertainment, about a possible marketing cooperation for the drink in the racing business.

Sensory substitution

The frequency and the inter-aural disparity are determined by the center of gravity of the co-ordinates of the receptive field's pixels in the image (see "There is something out there: distal attribution in sensory substitution, twenty years later"; Auvray M., Hanneton S., Lenay C., O'Regan K. Journal of Integrative Neuroscience 4 (2005) 505-21).

Skylab B

Some uses considered for the second Skylab module included putting it into a mode where it could generate artificial gravity and a plan to celebrate the 1976 United States Bicentennial with the launch of two Soviet Soyuz missions to the back-up Skylab.

Somak Raychaudhury

The subject of his doctoral thesis, supervised by Donald Lynden-Bell, FRS, was "Gravity, Galaxies and the "Great Attractor" Survey".

Spacecraft naming

Maria Zuber, principal investigator on the mission commented on the student's research before selecting the names and its appropriateness for a mission measuring gravity.

Surface tension

Hydrostatic equilibrium—the effect of gravity pulling matter into a round shape

Suzanne Banay Santo

Trained as a dancer in her youth in New York City, she was deeply influenced by Erick Hawkins, whose technique was designed to accept gravity, reduce strain, and eliminate artificiality.

Synchronistic Wanderings

Among the previously unreleased tracks are a cover of Roy Orbison's "Crying", a demo of "Love Is a Battlefield", a live version of "I Need a Lover", part 1 of "Rise" (from her 1993 album Gravity's Rainbow), a live performance of "Run Between the Raindrops" (from Seven the Hard Way), and a remix of "Every Time I Fall Back".

The Anti-Gravity Room

The Anti-Gravity Room was a weekly Canadian television program of the early- to mid-1990s, spotlighting comic books and video games, and hosted by Nick Scoullar and Phil Guerrero.

Tim Webber

For his work on Gravity, he has been nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects at the 67th British Academy Film Awards, and an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects at the 86th Academy Awards.

Trebuchet

The military use of the new gravity-powered artillery culminated in the 12th century during the Siege of Acre (1189–91) which saw the kings Richard I of England and Philip II of France wrestle for control of the city with Saladin's forces.

Try!

The CD includes two cover songs, "Wait Until Tomorrow" by Jimi Hendrix, and "I Got a Woman" by Ray Charles; two of Mayer's previous album, Heavier Things's songs, "Daughters" and "Something's Missing"; and also showcased two songs from Mayer's then forthcoming album, Continuum, "Vultures" and "Gravity".

When Gravity Fails

The title is taken from "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues", a song by Bob Dylan: "When your gravity fails and negativity don't pull you through".

Zero-point energy

In the critically acclaimed game series from Valve Corporation, Half-Life, a "zero-point energy field manipulator" (popularly known as 'gravity gun'), meant to handle sensitive, anomalous and hazardous materials, is used as both a weapon to throw objects at enemies in high speeds, as a primary attack, and a tool to solve physics puzzles consisting in moving objects of considerable weight.


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