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Did you solve it? Isaac Newton’s tower drop puzzle

The solution to the seventeenth century stumper Earlier today I set you a puzzle that Isaac Newton posed in 1679 in a latter to Robert Hooke. I mentioned that the answer is counter-intuitive, and also…

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The Guardian United Kingdom · 28 September 2026

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