

Imagine all we had to learn about human body was the aura coming out of it, and the fact you can see wounds with your eyes… and then the electron microscope happened and now you can look at the cell, go even further deeper and look at the genes, all because of electron being the ‘fundamental ingredient’. This is like saying that Sachin is not just good at cover drives, but that cover drives are like 25% of Sachin’s substance… In other words, Karan, what is gravity? But now you are telling me it is a fundamental ingredient. Gravity, if I remember my high school physics, is a quality of the universe. I find the notion of gravity being a fundamental ingredient of the universe interesting, but also very difficult to appreciate. But now we have a new ‘sense’, beyond the five, to comprehend the universe… we are now probing the universe with the most fundamental ingredient of its composition-gravity.ĭoes this make our existing understanding of universe false? No, but what it does is add much more nuance to the current picture.

Whatever we know about our universe so far is mainly due to a nice introductory physics concept-’light’, or more technically, electromagnetic waves (which gives X-ray, radio, rainbow lights, etc.). How is it transformational? Does it change the way we think about the universe? Or does it confirm suspicions? How would you explain it? (We will get into what they really are in a bit.)
