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In one of body of knowledge’s most iconic moments, Isaac Newton’s eye caught the red glint of an apple as it plunged toward the excuse sediment. He heard the leaves rustle in the light breeze and felt the affability of the tea he was drinking at the time.

These sensory inputs streamed into his brain, where they met his behemoth stores of knowledge, his internal musings, his peculiar brand of rarity and perhaps even a fond recollection of escaping the ground’s hold while climbing a tree as a boy. All at once, sights, sounds, emotions and memories converged to construction a whole, rich experience in the garden that day.

It was this fortuitous experience — superbly ripe for a big idea — that (legend has it) caused Newton to gawk why the apple fell not sideways or even upward, but straight down. Inspiration struck, ushering in a new perception of gravity.

Newton gets the glory for figuring out that the same mysterious significance pulls planets toward the sun and apples toward Earth, but how he did it hinges on an even deeper obscurity: How his brain created a single, seamless experience from a chaotic swinging of internal and external messages.

Source: Science News

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