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From the YouTube video of the same name. You can find every A Capella Science video at youtube.com/acapellascience
lyrics
NEWTON:
Some new equation's hit me
Something is not the same
I'm through with playing by
The rules of Aristotle's game
Delay my spectrum testing
Delay the fluid notes I keep
It's time to trust my instincts
And theorize
A leap
It's time to try defining gravity
I think I'll try defining gravity
To know why things fall down
CROWD:
How can you think you understand
The planet equations of Kepler?
NEWTON:
I'm through inventing limits
The ones that Leibniz stole
Armed with this rate of change
And three laws I already know
Too long I've been afraid of
Sharing my inverse square law
Well here it comes:
Principia Mathematica!
In which I try defining gravity
Masses define the foci in gravity
And they're what pull things down!
(enter Einstein)
EINSTEIN:
Isaac
Come with me
Look at what we can prove
Together
Limited!
Your theory is so limited!
Low energy limit of its geodesic twin
Newton
Space conveys attraction
NEWTON
With.. a Hilbert action!
BOTH:
All semi-Riemannian!
With space and time defining gravity
Me/you and Einstein refining gravity
There's no such thing as down
EINSTEIN:
Well? Are you coming?
NEWTON:
I can't. I'm already dead.
EINSTEIN:
Oh! Right. Okay..
I hope you're happy
Now that your proof exists
NEWTON:
You too!
I hope it brings you bliss
And you never wind up manic
And deny quantum mechanics!
BOTH:
I hope you're happy in the end!
I hope you're happy my friend!
EINSTEIN:
So will you dare to join me
Taking the quest to find
One all-involving theory
Every force preserved and all combined
And if I die in toil
At least I'll die in peace
The world around me
Traced with geometric means
The way that I'm unifying gravity
Kaluza-Klein unifying gravity
With all the forces that we've found
And nobody, not Bohr or Bose
No physicist that is or was
Is ever gonna bring me down!
NEWTON:
I hope you're happy!
CROWD:
Look at this new physics! Clever!
EINSTEIN:
Bring me down!
CROWD:
Thank you for the physics!
Now we know why things fall
EINSTEIN:
Ohhh!
CROWD:
Down!
credits
released March 31, 2016
Copyright 2016 Tim Blais and A Capella Science
supported by 6 fans who also own “Defining Gravity (feat. Dianna Cowern & Malinda Kathleen Reese)”
I wish there was more music like this. So good to listen to while working on art, and filled with awesome quotes that make you think about the deepest questions in life. It's like science music. Amazing. Goes good with point506. vinbasshred
supported by 5 fans who also own “Defining Gravity (feat. Dianna Cowern & Malinda Kathleen Reese)”
This is just HILARIOUS
Everyone on it gave such an AMAZING performance
and Kevin's final appearance? Took me completly by surprise *cheff kiss* MarlaHectic
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