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Gravity used to be the most down-to-earth of ideas, the thing that kept apples falling and planets in line. Now a growing ...

It’s not trivial to explain why a disc turns and fades. And it seems that everyone has their own theories about what’s really going on, some of which are, of course, very wrong. In truth, describing ...