General definition from Wikipedia:
Gravitation, or gravity, is a natural phenomenon by which physical bodies attract with a force proportional to their mass. In everyday life, gravitation is most familiar as the agent that gives weight to objects with mass and causes them to fall to the ground when dropped. Gravitation causes dispersed matter to coalesce, and coalesced matter to remain intact, thus accounting for the existence of the Earth, the Sun, and most of the macroscopic objects in the universe. Gravitation is responsible for keeping the Earth and the other planets in their orbits around the Sun; for keeping the Moon in its orbit around the Earth; for the formation of tides; for natural convection, by which fluid flow occurs under the influence of a density gradient and gravity; for heating the interiors of forming stars and planets to very high temperatures; and for various other phenomena observed on Earth.
Based on Newton's Law of Gravity:
Newton's law of universal gravitation states that every point mass in the universe attracts every other point mass with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
And later Einstein produce his General Relativity theory:
According to general relativity, the observed gravitational attraction between masses results from their warping of space and time.
So based on Newton's law, gravity is a force that pull one object to another. contradict to Newton's law, einstein stated that gravity is a phenomenon of spacetime curvature.. Newton's Law is proven by experiment but Einstein's General Relativity still remains a theory..
my questions are how to explain gravity accurately? is there any experiment to prove how gravity works? how can an object produce gravity? thanks..
Science How to explain gravity?, I still can't understand it
Sep 27 2011, 08:54 PM, updated 15y ago
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