ability to hold all of us on the earth, in comparison to the other forces in nature, it is extremely weak. According to Rees, gravity is 1036 times weaker than competing forces within atoms.220 As a 2009 article in New Scientist Magazine put it, “The feebleness of gravity is something we should be grateful for. If it were a tiny bit stronger, none of us would be here to scoff at its puny nature.”221 According to Rees, if gravity were stronger, stars would burn out very quickly and the planets that orbited them would be tiny. Any life form on those
