The Gravitational Beauty of Trees

(Source images: pixabay and University of Hawai’i)

Gravity is one of the four fundamental interactions in nature — the three others being electromagnetism, the strong nuclear interactions, and the weak nuclear interactions — and it pervades space like an invisible field until infinity. Albert Einstein taught us that the gravitational field is spacetime itself, and that gravity is experienced as a result of large masses bending spacetime. That is, you are constantly falling towards…