The answer
To answer this question let us recall two points which are:
1. That God set down the laws of Nature, in the first place, so that Nature would submit to him, and not He to them.
2. That material or physical things on earth submit to the law of gravity, whereas the Lord Christ, when He ascended, did not do so in a physical body or an earthly one, which would have been subject to the laws of gravity.
The Lord's body of the Resurrection and the Ascension was a glorious body, a spiritual and heavenly one. If we too are to
rise with such bodies, according to what it says in 1 Corinthians 15:43-50, it goes without saying that our Lord would have such a body, and an even better one. And we are told that Christ, "will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like His glorious body. " (Phil. 3:21)
This glorious body, in which our Lord rose from the dead and ascended, was therefore not subject to the earthly laws of gravity. And this brings us face to face with an important question:
Was there, then, nothing miraculous in His ascension?
Of course it was a miracle. But it wasn't contrary to the earth's law of gravity.
The miracle was in the transformation of the physical body into a spiritual, heavenly body that could rise up.
So the Ascension was not something contrary to Nature, but rather an elevation of the natural state of Christ's body which rose to heaven. It was a kind of manifestation of this nature.
And just as the Lord granted us to be in His form and likeness when He created us (Gen. 1:26-27), so shall we also be in His form and likeness at the Resurrection and Ascension.
This will all happen to us when we are glorified with Him and rise with Him in glory.
When we rise in power and glory, those living on earth at the time of the Resurrection will be changed: " in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised incorruptible." (1 Cor. 15:52- 53) " Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord." (1 Thess. 4:17)
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Thrice-Blessed Pope Shenouda III of Blessed Memory