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You can't shut gravity off or insulate yourself against it, so the only way to fight it

is to use a force in the opposite direction that's greater than the force of gravity.

This is most often accomplished through the use of devices known as "muscles".

A few examples of the process include walking up stairs, lifting a book up from a

table, and throwing a Basketball in a ballistic trajectory, precisely calculated so as

to intersect with the center of the hoop some time after gravity regains control.

I just want to add something here. There are several ways to oppose gravity. You know Hydrogen is the lightest element known to humans and it is so light that it can escape gravity and rise up. So, that property is intrinsic to that of Hydrogen. Now, in experimental cases you can oppose gravity through magnetism. When you bring two similar poles of magnets close together they will repel each other. Now place one magnet over another and they would repel one another and float. You have to do this experiment in a systematic manner.

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Any force can. You "oppose" gravity every time you get out of bed and stand up, and every time you use the force of your leg muscles to walk upstairs.


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What is the present tense of oppose?

Oppose


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Oppose in a sentence?

The demonstrators plan to oppose the new shopping mall. I oppose anything curtailing civil rights. Oppose means to hinder, counterbalance or resist.


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How can use oppose in a sentences?

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