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Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation: Beyond the Apple

Sir Isaac Newton's law of universal gravitation states that every particle attracts every other particle in the universe with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between their centers. This 'inverse-square law' was revolutionary because it unified the physics of Earth with the physics of the stars...
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