What is Gravity? - FREE
Sun, Nov 26
|Ontario Science Centre
Introduction to General Relativity through easy to understand experiments and stories.


Time & Location
Nov 26, 2023, 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills Rd., North York, ON M3C 1T3, Canada
About the event
On Nov 5, we had a session where kids were introduced to experiments about gravity and how different objects are affected by it. If you were not able to attend the Nov 5 event, you can still attend this event as we will review all the material covered previously again.
In this event we will first review those concepts and then introduce the kids to gravity as distortion of spacetime rather than a force in Newtonian physics.
Although this is an adavnced topic we will be approaching it using simple questions about the experiments we will be performing and explore which approach provides us with a more intuitive explanation, gravity as a force or gravity as distortion of spacetime.