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12655874 No.12655874 [Reply] [Original]

What is gravity?
I mean I know it's a force that draws things together according to their mass but what (ACTUALLY* is it?
Like what is it made of?
And why does it draw things with mass together?
How did it did it originate in the unvierse?

t. brainlet

>> No.12655900

bump

>> No.12655923

ask God.

>> No.12655941

>>12655874
It isn't actually a "thing" it's more of an intrinsic property of mass. Anything that has mass distorts space around itself. Think of your hand pressing down on a piece of foam. That distortion is gravity but the foam is space. However I'm a giant fucking brainlet so no reason to listen to me.

>> No.12655944

>>12655874
I've been wondering this exact same question for a while anon. Also why is Gravity measured as an acceleration (m/s^2) rather than a force (N)?

>> No.12655954

>>12655944
Because gravitational acceleration is the same for an object of any mass but force being mass times acceleration will change depending on the mass of the object.

>> No.12656540

Protip: everything is a push even if it appears as a pull.

Protip: gravity field changes at speed of light

>> No.12656586

>>12656540
so you are saying gravity is... dark light

>> No.12656740

>>12655874
>it's a force that draws things together according to their mass
False.
>Why does it draw things with mass together?
False.
Gravity is merely an emergent force. It doesn't fundamentally exist. Here's how gravity works.
>Define metric of space-time as fabric of reality
>This fabric governs how objects move (along geodesics, the quickest path of least resistance)
>mass distorts this fabric
>Objects, not moving (geodesic) will then be shifted in position due to this distortion of the fabric
>Object continuously moves toward mass

>> No.12656748

>>12656586
Dark light only makes up 49% of dark energy. The rest of dark energy is just dark temperature.

>> No.12656774

let the nobel committee know if you find out