So what happens when you take gravity out of the equation. ..

Nick Ayton
7 min readJan 16, 2023

The second in a series of articles that explores Frontier Technologies and Deep Tech that have the potential to change our evolutionary path. Episode 2 — Gravity.

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For a long time I’ve been fascinated by gravity and its impact on evolution, on species and technology, yes technology! My thinking is sometimes it is not what you add, but what you take away. I want to know about gravity and its role from the emergence of life from early bacteria and simple organisms to the amazingly complex animal, human and plant based life forms, structures and environments in which we live, and I want to know what happens when it (gravity) is taken away fully or in part.

Arguably, human evolution took its time, building upon the origins of life itself 3.5 billions years earlier, a time known as the ‘primordial soup’ , where the presence of water was essential for molecular life to support chemical reactions, acting as a protective barrier, with ammonia acids and nucleotides formed the building blocks of life, 4 million years later we have humanity…

I want to know what role gravity had in this soup?

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Nick Ayton

Nick Ayton is a Polymath, Technologist, Filmmaker, Writer, Speaker