Neil Arun didn’t want to miss a rare but risky opportunity to embed with an Iraqi police unit, hunting members of al Qaeda. But his employers -- responsible for Neil’s security -- weren’t happy. This film by Richard Pendry nvestigates how a frontline journalist balances risk and reward.
Did an apple fall from a tree and hit Issac Newton on the head thus prompting the great physicist to discover the law of gravity?
Almost certainly not.
But watching a falling apple did concentrate his mind and lead him, during the late 1660's, to formulate the theory that gravity operates in an inverse-square proportion. If this was true, Newton deduced that it would be possible to predict the planet's orbital periods. He therefore named the force "universal gravitation".
