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Gravity Competition!

There’s a competition running at ITP2022 that involves holding out a copy of the book Gravitation by Misner Thorne & Wheeler in one hand at arm’s length for as long as you can following the instructions below:

The current record is an impressive three minutes! How well can you do?

UPDATE: The winner of the competition was John Brennan, formerly of Maynooth University, with a time of 3 minutes and 29 seconds!

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4 Responses to “Gravity Competition!”

  1. Francis Says:
    May 26, 2022 at 11:22 am

    Could you hold a digital copy on a Kindle? All you say is ‘a copy of the book’ – doesn’t explicitly state it needs to be a hardcopy….

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  2. Francis Says:
    May 26, 2022 at 11:23 am

    The hardcopy is 1279 pages!

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