galileo

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    Galileo Experiment: How a bowling ball and feather can fall at the same rate

    If you drop a heavy bowling ball and a feather at the same time, which will hit the ground first? As part of BBC Two's Human Universe, Brian Cox and a team demonstrated how, with the absence of air, a feather will hit the ground at the same time as a bowling ball. Ever inventive, Cox decided...
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    400 yrs late: Vatican honours Galileo

    ROME: Four hundred years after Galileo Galilei first demonstrated his telescope to scholars on a Roman hilltop, the astronomer condemned by the Catholic Church was celebrated on the same spot with a multimedia art exhibit that, oddly enough, included an installation from the Vatican...