Why is there gravity?

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Why is there gravity?

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RE: Why is there gravity?

March 30, 2015 at 8:56 am (This post was last modified: March 30, 2015 at 8:56 am by bennyboy.)

(March 30, 2015 at 1:43 am)Aractus Wrote: Gravity is largely an illusion. If Einstein's model of gravity is correct then why don't electrons eventually get drawn into the nucleus of an atom? After all apparently the protons in the neucli attract them... In any case it doesn't exist as a force it's a property of our universe.

Gravity is an illusion? It's not a force?

I don't understand why you say these things. They seem demonstrably (and pretty obviously) false. Can you elaborate a little?

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