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The Day Gravity Stopped (For 7 Seconds)

Episode 225 · Feb 2, 2026 · 61 min

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In this week’s episode we discussed the viral conspiracy theory claiming NASA predicted a brief loss of gravity, called Project Anchor. The claim says Earth will lose gravity for seven seconds. We dig into where this idea came from, why it spread, and what physics actually says would happen if gravity really did “turn off.”

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