Quote by patokl
Basically yes, though distance obviously plays a part too. Imagine if that trampoline were very large and you put two balls on them heavy enough to form a pit, but so far apart those two pits don't affect each other. The balls would not fall towards eachother. But if you bring them closer to each other there will come a point where those two pits connect. They'll form a trench and the balls will start falling towards each other.

Unequal masses do the same btw, though the smaller mass will obviously move farther and faster than the larger mass.

Quote by TheAngryishLover


think of a large trampoline. When you put something heavy, like a person, in the middle, it pulls everything towards it

That's basically exactly what is happening with gravity. The trampoline itself is the fabric of 'space time', and the person standing in the middle is then a mass that distorts it, pulling everything towards it. The bigger the mass, the bigger the effect.

That's why masses are attracted to each other. They aren't 'attracted' in the same way as a force (like magnetism), but rather they are 'falling' towards each other

True story

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The real interesting thing about gravity, is that no one can quite figure out why it is so weak (as a force)