Question:
is gravity a force or rather just the effect of spacetime warped by mass?
drtimgarland
2007-06-05 19:52:54 UTC
is gravity a force or rather just the effect of spacetime warped by mass?
Ten answers:
anonymous
2007-06-05 19:57:49 UTC
i think it is a force in the way that we understand the world. i dont believe in that whole spacetime warped by mass garbage and some day im going to prove it.
Wintermute
2007-06-09 04:24:25 UTC
By the classical (Newtonian) mechanics it is treated as a force in 3 dimensions, because of the II Newton law. In the Einstein theory, gravitation is just the answer of the question "what curved the spacetime", everything else is a pure Riemmanian geometry in 4 dimensions, treating the spacetime as manifold, dealing with the consequences of the curving.
chaoticsoul1290
2007-06-05 22:53:16 UTC
Gravity is a force between all objects that have mass. Being the weakest force it sometimes has little effect. Take for example our moon, there is a gravitation force between it, the Earth, the Sun and even Pluto, but its only affected by the closest and therefore strongest force between itself and the Earth. This force goes both ways too, this is evident by the tides and even the curvature of the wind.
indian340
2007-06-05 20:41:12 UTC
gravity is a force that is a property of all things with mass and it is what warps spacetime. which is why light will seem to curve to us as it pass a super-massive black-hole or something else with a giant amount of mass much more than our sun. it is not accualy curving it is moving in a straight line but spacetime is curved and since our eyes cannot perceive more than the 3 dimensions we know it seems to us as if it is curving
Kulnor the Wise
2007-06-05 20:09:35 UTC
Gravity is one of the four fundamental forces. It is very weak in comparison to the other three but dominates the universe.



The warping of space is an outcome of Einstein's General Relativity Theory which includes gravity (the Special Theory of Relativity does not)
c_los915
2007-06-05 20:07:34 UTC
I would think its a force much like the force you get when you take a bucket of water, tie a rope to it and spin it like a jump rope. The force of the speed keeps the water in the bucket. The Big Bang theory suggest that everything is moving further and further away at great speed. This would keep us on Earth (bucket) until it is stopped. Just my opinion. That wouldn't explain why the moon has no gravity, although I think it has to do with size and other factors.
hesch
2017-01-10 20:15:22 UTC
incredibly - "Gravity" is probably going considered one of the 4 basic forces in quantum physics. the different 3 are the "Electromagnetic", "good Nuclear", and "vulnerable Nuclear" forces. What Einstein *certainly* proposed in his "specific concept of Relativity" (to no longer be perplexed together with his "standard concept of Relativity"), is that element is relative to the observer; and it incredibly is continuously contingent on the degree at which the gap-time continuum is being warped by utilising gravitational forces; ie: a sufficiently great mass will create a resultant gravitational tension good sufficient to regulate an observer's thought of time. considering velocity is on the subject rely of time (no pun meant), we will use this as an occasion of relativity: An observer sits in a prepare station whilst staring at a bullet prepare bypass by utilising at 3 hundred kph. At that right 2nd, there are 2 passengers sitting on the prepare rapidly throughout from one yet another. the 1st passenger tosses a ball to the 2nd passenger (interior the comparable path the prepare is shifting) at 5 kph. To everybody on the prepare, the ball travels at 5 kph. yet to the observer interior the station, the ball is shifting at a velocity of 305 kph. For an observer on a spaceship travelling close to the fee of sunshine, time will bypass extra slowly for him, than somebody in the worldwide. yet the two will become conscious of the passage of time similarly. or maybe gravity could have an instantaneous result on an merchandise's velocity, inflicting it to develop up, whether it incredibly is good sufficient (eg. a neutron celebrity or a "black hollow"). The tension of gravity is often alluring and is rapidly proportional to the mass of the item exerting stated tension. What makes a "black hollow", "black" is as a results of the fact it reflects no mild. It it incredibly is taken under consideration one of those densely huge merchandise, it may generate gravitational forces so extreme, that mild won't be able to even get away its pull. products falling in direction of the form horizon are speeded as much as the fee of sunshine. yet to an exterior observer, it would look like the item by no potential falls in.
johnandeileen2000
2007-06-09 14:15:10 UTC
Gravity is the weakest of the four natural forces.
prateek
2007-06-05 23:09:27 UTC
There is an analogy ,that explains clearly how gravitation is the product of warped space time,in the book "Fundamentals of physics" by Halliday/Resnick/Walker.
Nick48
2007-06-05 19:58:00 UTC
its a force


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