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Why is there gravity?
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RE: Why is there gravity?
(March 28, 2015 at 7:27 am)urlawyer Wrote: So gravity is awesome. It keeps my ass in my chair and my beer in the bottle (provided I hold it right side up). But why is it there? What causes it? Just things having mass? I've searched it up and all I got were ambiguous "We don't know"'s or "That's just how the universe works"'s.
Does anyone else know more on this subject? Is there even anyone studying this stuff?

The concept was that mass causes distortion in four dimensional space time but there are also particles called gravitons maybe.

It's one of those things we don't really know yet. Like how quantum entanglement works or what dark energy is.

Not to worry, people with brains immeasurably superior to my own are working on it.



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Why is there gravity? - by urlawyer - March 28, 2015 at 7:27 am
RE: Why is there gravity? - by downbeatplumb - March 28, 2015 at 7:32 am
RE: Why is there gravity? - by I_am_not_mafia - March 28, 2015 at 7:39 am
RE: Why is there gravity? - by urlawyer - March 28, 2015 at 7:41 am
RE: Why is there gravity? - by c172 - March 28, 2015 at 1:43 pm
RE: Why is there gravity? - by urlawyer - March 28, 2015 at 7:39 am
RE: Why is there gravity? - by Norman Humann - March 28, 2015 at 7:43 am
RE: Why is there gravity? - by urlawyer - March 28, 2015 at 7:54 am
RE: Why is there gravity? - by Smaug - March 28, 2015 at 8:01 am
RE: Why is there gravity? - by robvalue - March 28, 2015 at 8:06 am
RE: Why is there gravity? - by vorlon13 - March 28, 2015 at 10:10 am
RE: Why is there gravity? - by Alex K - March 28, 2015 at 10:35 am
RE: Why is there gravity? - by IATIA - March 28, 2015 at 10:59 am
RE: Why is there gravity? - by Alex K - March 28, 2015 at 11:01 am
RE: Why is there gravity? - by IATIA - March 28, 2015 at 11:23 am
RE: Why is there gravity? - by Alex K - March 28, 2015 at 12:00 pm
RE: Why is there gravity? - by Surgenator - March 28, 2015 at 12:58 pm
Why is there gravity? - by KUSA - March 28, 2015 at 11:05 am
RE: Why is there gravity? - by Anomalocaris - March 28, 2015 at 11:26 am
RE: Why is there gravity? - by Alex K - March 28, 2015 at 11:29 am
RE: Why is there gravity? - by Anomalocaris - March 28, 2015 at 11:36 am
RE: Why is there gravity? - by Alex K - March 28, 2015 at 11:47 am
RE: Why is there gravity? - by Anomalocaris - March 28, 2015 at 11:49 am
RE: Why is there gravity? - by IATIA - March 28, 2015 at 11:31 am
RE: Why is there gravity? - by Alex K - March 28, 2015 at 11:17 am
RE: Why is there gravity? - by popeyespappy - March 28, 2015 at 12:39 pm
RE: Why is there gravity? - by Alex K - March 28, 2015 at 1:05 pm
RE: Why is there gravity? - by vorlon13 - March 28, 2015 at 1:08 pm
RE: Why is there gravity? - by Alex K - March 28, 2015 at 1:10 pm
RE: Why is there gravity? - by Anomalocaris - March 28, 2015 at 1:42 pm
RE: Why is there gravity? - by IATIA - March 28, 2015 at 1:37 pm
RE: Why is there gravity? - by Surgenator - March 28, 2015 at 2:37 pm
RE: Why is there gravity? - by IATIA - March 28, 2015 at 2:44 pm
RE: Why is there gravity? - by IATIA - March 28, 2015 at 5:27 pm
RE: Why is there gravity? - by Alex K - March 28, 2015 at 1:40 pm
RE: Why is there gravity? - by IATIA - March 28, 2015 at 1:45 pm
RE: Why is there gravity? - by Alex K - March 28, 2015 at 1:48 pm
RE: Why is there gravity? - by IATIA - March 28, 2015 at 1:58 pm
RE: Why is there gravity? - by Alex K - March 28, 2015 at 3:18 pm
RE: Why is there gravity? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - March 28, 2015 at 3:41 pm
RE: Why is there gravity? - by urlawyer - March 28, 2015 at 4:06 pm
RE: Why is there gravity? - by Alex K - March 28, 2015 at 6:24 pm
RE: Why is there gravity? - by IATIA - March 30, 2015 at 1:28 pm
RE: Why is there gravity? - by Brometheus - March 30, 2015 at 12:37 am
RE: Why is there gravity? - by Aractus - March 30, 2015 at 1:43 am
RE: Why is there gravity? - by Alex K - March 30, 2015 at 8:31 am
RE: Why is there gravity? - by bennyboy - March 30, 2015 at 8:59 am
RE: Why is there gravity? - by Alex K - March 30, 2015 at 8:48 pm
RE: Why is there gravity? - by bennyboy - March 31, 2015 at 1:38 am
RE: Why is there gravity? - by Alex K - April 5, 2015 at 9:44 am
RE: Why is there gravity? - by JuliaL - April 5, 2015 at 10:59 am
RE: Why is there gravity? - by bennyboy - March 30, 2015 at 8:56 am
RE: Why is there gravity? - by Pizza - March 31, 2015 at 2:12 am
RE: Why is there gravity? - by robvalue - April 5, 2015 at 11:06 am
RE: Why is there gravity? - by Tobie - May 9, 2015 at 5:04 pm
RE: Why is there gravity? - by Quatermass - April 17, 2015 at 4:10 pm
RE: Why is there gravity? - by bennyboy - April 18, 2015 at 4:32 am
RE: Why is there gravity? - by Alex K - April 18, 2015 at 6:11 am
RE: Why is there gravity? - by The Grand Nudger - April 18, 2015 at 6:58 am
RE: Why is there gravity? - by Brakeman - April 18, 2015 at 7:48 am
RE: Why is there gravity? - by vorlon13 - April 18, 2015 at 9:21 am
RE: Why is there gravity? - by Brian37 - April 18, 2015 at 12:22 pm
RE: Why is there gravity? - by robvalue - May 9, 2015 at 10:37 pm
RE: Why is there gravity? - by ignoramus - May 9, 2015 at 11:00 pm
RE: Why is there gravity? - by IATIA - May 9, 2015 at 11:08 pm
RE: Why is there gravity? - by Silver - May 10, 2015 at 2:33 am
RE: Why is there gravity? - by ignoramus - May 10, 2015 at 3:55 am
RE: Why is there gravity? - by Alex K - May 10, 2015 at 5:45 am
RE: Why is there gravity? - by Pyrrho - May 10, 2015 at 2:08 pm
RE: Why is there gravity? - by Alex K - May 10, 2015 at 2:14 pm
RE: Why is there gravity? - by Pyrrho - May 10, 2015 at 2:19 pm
RE: Why is there gravity? - by Alex K - May 10, 2015 at 2:24 pm
RE: Why is there gravity? - by Pyrrho - May 10, 2015 at 9:13 pm
RE: Why is there gravity? - by robvalue - May 10, 2015 at 7:14 am
RE: Why is there gravity? - by Anomalocaris - May 10, 2015 at 7:20 pm
RE: Why is there gravity? - by Alex K - May 11, 2015 at 12:15 am
RE: Why is there gravity? - by nihilistcat - May 11, 2015 at 1:53 am
RE: Why is there gravity? - by Alex K - May 11, 2015 at 2:34 am

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