Gravity

About Gravity

Gravity is the third studio album by American saxophonist Kenny G. It was released in May 1985, and reached number 13 on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart, number 37 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and number 97 on the Billboard 200.

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Kenny G – saxophones, flutes, synthesizers, synth bass, drum machine programming, digital wind synth guitar solo (3), backing vocals (3, 4, 6), Synclavier (6), all instruments (7)

Wayne A. Brathwaite – synthesizers, bass guitar, synth bass, drum machine programming

Roger Sause – synthesizers, synth bass, drum machine programming

Kashif – synthesizers, synth bass, drum machine programming, percussion, backing vocals (1, 2), Synclavier (6)

Sal Gallina – synthesizer programming (3)

Barry J. Eastmond – acoustic piano (6)

Peter Scherer – Synclavier (6)

Rick McMillen – additional synthesizer programming (6), drum mutation (6)

Fareed Abdul Haqq – guitars (6)

Notable quotes

“Our two greatest problems are gravity and paper work. We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.”
— Wernher von Braun as quoted in the Chicago Sun Times (10 Jul 1958)
“The Newtonian scheme says that the planet tends to move in a straight line, but the sun's gravity pulls it away. Einstein says that the planet tends to take the shortest route and does take it.”
— Arthur Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World (1928) p. 133.
“A positive pressure produces an attractive gravitational field... Positive pressures are just sort of normal pressures and attractive gravity is normal gravity, so normal pressures produce normal gravity, but it is possible to have negative pressures, and negative pressures produce repulsive gravity, and that's the secret of what makes inflation possible.”
— Alan Guth, The Early Universe (2012) Lecture 1 ibid.
“Could it be, nevertheless, that Einstein's theory is wrong? Might it be necessary to modify it—to find a new theory of gravity that can explain both the stronger gravity and the apparent antigravity being observed today—rather than simply throwing in invisible things to make the standard model work?”
— John Moffat, Introduction, Reinventing Gravity (2008) p. xi.
“I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called a hypothesis, and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.”
— Isaac Newton, Letter to Robert Hooke (15 February 1676) [5 February 1676 (O.S.)]
“Even though it is, properly speaking, a postprediction, in the sense that the experiment was made before the theory, the fact that gravity is a consequence of string theory, to me, is one of the greatest theoretical insights ever.”
— Edward Witten, as quoted by John Horgan, The End of Science: Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age (1996).

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About Gravity

About Gravity

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