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How does gravity work?

In our fourth online poll to find out what Plus readers would most like to know about the Universe you told us that you'd like to find out how gravity works. We took the question to Professor Bangalore Sathyaprakash of the School of Physics and Astronomy at Cardiff University, and here is his answer. This interview is also available as a podcast.

If you'd like to put another Universe question to experts, vote in the current poll, or leave a comment on this blog.

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nrich

Stage 2::[problem**] Neighbours

In a square in which the houses are evenly spaced, numbers 3 and 10 are opposite each other. What is the smallest and what is the largest possible number of houses in the square? Read more.

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Through the Looking Glass...again and again!

Date: 
Wednesday, 11 November 2009 - 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Speaker: 
Dr Sara Santos

What happens if Alice takes a magic trip inside a conic arrangement of mirrors?

Puzzled? Wait until you see Alice's cubes and icosahedrons! We will see how many triangles make up a cube or a dodecahedron using 3D-kaleidoscopes. We will look at reflections and rotations in the three dimensional space.

Download a PDF poster.

 

Event full?: 
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Secondary
Level: 
General public
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Suggested age range 11+
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Stage 2::[problem*] Tables Without Tens

Investigate and explain the patterns that you see from recording just the units digits of numbers in the times tables. Read more.

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What would you like to know about your Universe — The fifth online poll

This poll is now closed. The most popular question was: "Is time travel allowed?" We will publish the answer in an article on Plus shortly. Thank you for taking part!

This is the fifth online poll in our series to celebrate the International Year of Astronomy 2009. Choose your favourite question from the list on the right, and we'll put the one that proves most popular to world-leading astronomers and cosmologists, including Astronomer Royal Martin Rees and author and cosmologist John D. Barrow. The poll will remain open for a month and the answer will be published in a Plus article and podcast soon after. If your most burning question is not on this list, then leave a comment on this blog and we'll endeavour to include it in a future poll.

The winning questions in our previous polls have been

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