Have you ever thought how much we take gravity for granted? I guess only those, who left our planet for some time truly enjoy and appreciate gravity. It is not you and me, though.

Gravity is something what we experience on every day basis and give it no thought. Based on recent discoveries, we need to change our perception of it.

Until now we have presumed that gravity is a power, which holds us sticking to the Earth, something what may be the effect of centrifugal and centripetal forces etc. It is also about the whole Solar system in relation to the centre of our Galactic. I am quite sure that for the majority of population, gravity is still a force, which attracts objects to each other. Albert Einstein, after delivering his General Theory of Relativity, was claiming that gravity is fluent in nature and is caused by the curvature of the Universe, but I guess at that time it was far to complex for people to even consider this as an option. Well - it was only the year of 1915!

The general public as well as various educational systems did not give it another thought, but science has never given up. Some scientists finally began to understand and follow the idea that gravitational waves emitted from the Black Holes lead to loss of the repelling ability of each of them. In effect, billions years later, those two holes merge and create a new, one huge Black Hole. That is, of course, very abbreviated version of what science came out with after researching the far reaching parts of the Universe for years.

We may say that some kind of conclusion was expected since 1970’s, when Joseph Taylor and Russel Hulse began their observations, which - by the way - resulted in receiving a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1993. From that moment we knew that what Einstein presumed without ways or means to prove, and what the next generation of scientists was able to measure, will change our perception of the nature of the Universe. However it did take another 20 year plus to prove it by scientific instruments. Last year, finally, it got proven!

What does that mean to us, casual people? Will gravity begin to act differently just because of our awareness of its true nature? I don’t think so. But maybe we will be able to uncover new ways of dealing with it. Maybe it will be easier to overcome gravity? Maybe we will be able to understand and manipulate gravity, so we will look at our presence on the moon first and then other planets more optimistically? Or maybe we will be able some day “float” on those gravitational waves as we can now on the waves of water? Or in the tunnels of high pressured air?

I am sure that it is a turning point for humanity on our path to understanding cosmos through understanding the rules governing our own planet. In final effect - as above so below…