HOW COME? Gravity differs on location
Photo credit: Photo by Danielle Finkelstein | Dylan Moran, 13, from Syosset, does a somersault off the diving board into the pool Thursday afternoon at the Syosset-Woodbury Park pool. (August 04, 2011)
Surprise: It actually depends on where you're standing. In fact, the variations in Earth's gravitational field mean you'll weigh the teensiest fraction more in New York than you would in sunny Los Angeles.
Your weight is a measure of the Earth's downward pull on you. But gravity isn't something mysterious inside our planet. It's simply the attraction one bit of matter feels for another. When...
