Gravitational force is never truly zero. If it has mass, it is pulling at you, though it may be so close to zero that you don’t realize it.

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    Any given star is constantly emitting an unimaginably large, but finite, number of photons. A tiny few of them travel tens to hundreds of (Earth) years, only to end their journey in your eyeballs.

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      Even crazier when you consider how long that photon bounced around inside the star before escaping out into space

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        Technically the photon is being absorbed and re-emitted inside the star, so it’s not exactly the same photon.