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The Feather and the Cannonball Stage a Race ...

Physicist Brian Cox visits a NASA facility to witness an experiment that brings together 'light as a feather' and 'like a lead balloon' in airless conditions that mimic outer space. Gravitational insights courtesy of Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein.

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