What created gravity?

Earth's gravity comes from all its mass. All its mass makes a combined gravitational pull on all the mass in your body. That's what gives you weight. And if you were on a planet with less mass than Earth, you would weigh less than you do here.
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How did gravity start?

The legend is that Newton discovered Gravity when he saw a falling apple while thinking about the forces of nature. Whatever really happened, Newton realized that some force must be acting on falling objects like apples because otherwise they would not start moving from rest.
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Who really created gravity?

Isaac Newton changed the way we understand the Universe. Revered in his own lifetime, he discovered the laws of gravity and motion and invented calculus.
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Who is more genius Einstein or Newton?

Isaac Newton is considered to have had a greater impact on both science and humankind than Albert Einstein, according to the results of two Royal Society polls announced today (Wednesday 23 November).
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When did gravity begin?

The same detectors are waiting in anticipation to capture the very first gravitational waves that originated from the Big Bang about 14 billion years ago. Thus, we can be reasonably sure that gravity did exist during the Big Bang and the first signs of this 14 billion-year-old ripple will eventually back it up.
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Why does mass create gravity?

According to theory, the reason mass is proportional to gravity is because everything with mass emits tiny particles called gravitons. These gravitons are responsible for gravitational attraction. The more mass, the more gravitons.
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Can we create gravity?

Creating artificial gravity

Fortunately, there is more than one form of acceleration — and by using centrifugal force we can generate something equivalent to gravity on Earth. One possible way of creating artificial gravity in space is by utilizing a technology called an O'Neill cylinder.
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What is more powerful than gravity?

The strong nuclear force, also called the strong nuclear interaction, is the strongest of the four fundamental forces of nature. It's 6 thousand trillion trillion trillion (that's 39 zeroes after 6!) times stronger than the force of gravity, according to the HyperPhysics website (opens in new tab).
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Can magnets create gravity?

Because an electromagnetic field contains energy, momentum, and so on, it will produce a gravitational field of its own. This gravitational field is in addition to that produced by the matter of the charge or magnet.
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What if there was no gravity?

Humans and other objects will become weightless without gravity. If we have no gravity force, the atmosphere would disappear into space, the moon would collide with the earth, the earth would stop rotating, we would all feel weightless, the earth would collide with the sun, and as a consequence. We would all perish.
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Can gravity exist without mass?

The only way to get gravity is with mass. The more mass, the more gravity you get. Without mass, you can't have gravity.
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Is gravity caused by the Earth spinning?

Gravity is caused by mass curving the fabric of spacetime. The Earth's gravity is due to the Earth's mass and nothing else. TheEarth's spin is too slow to have any effect. It would have to be spinning very fast for relativistic effects to have any effect.
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Why is there gravity on Earth and not in space?

On Earth, astronauts feel the force of gravity as weight, because Earth's surface prevents them from falling. In outer space, however, there is no ground to push against astronauts.
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Does time exist without gravity?

Hence the answer to your question is, time exists even though their might be no gravity ( which is not possible since gravity is a long range force and extends for infinite distance ) since space still exists !
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Do you age slower in space?

Scientists have recently observed for the first time that, on an epigenetic level, astronauts age more slowly during long-term simulated space travel than they would have if their feet had been planted on Planet Earth.
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How is 1 hour in space equal to 7 years on Earth?

The first planet they land on is close to a supermassive black hole, dubbed Gargantuan, whose gravitational pull causes massive waves on the planet that toss their spacecraft about. Its proximity to the black hole also causes an extreme time dilation, where one hour on the distant planet equals 7 years on Earth.
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Would the Earth have gravity if it didn't spin?

If the Earth stopped spinning, you wouldn't suddenly be launched off into space. Gravity would still keep you firmly on the ground. There would be lots of changes, though. If Earth were to stop spinning but continue to orbit the sun, a "day" would last half a year, and so would the night.
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Why do all planets have gravity?

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Anything that has mass has gravity. The more mass something has (the bigger it is), then the more gravity it will have. So everything around us (including all the planets) have gravity!
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Why does the moon not spin?

The illusion of the moon not rotating from our perspective is caused by tidal locking, or a synchronous rotation in which a locked body takes just as long to orbit around its partner as it does to revolve once on its axis due to its partner's gravity. (The moons of other planets experience the same effect.)
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Does light feel gravity?

Yes, light is affected by gravity, but not in its speed. General Relativity (our best guess as to how the Universe works) gives two effects of gravity on light. It can bend light (which includes effects such as gravitational lensing), and it can change the energy of light.
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Why is light bent by gravity?

Light travels through spacetime, which can be warped and curved—so light should dip and curve in the presence of massive objects. This effect is known as gravitational lensing GLOSSARY gravitational lensingThe bending of light caused by gravity .
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Does light have gravity?

Light has momentum and energy, so it is a source of gravity. Rest mass is the length of the four-momentum vector.
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What if we lost gravity for 5 seconds?

If our planet were to lose gravity for even five seconds, it would spell the end of life on Earth as we know it. Gravity pulls objects toward one another. The more massive an object is, the stronger its gravitational pull. The closer you are to an object, the stronger its gravitational pull.
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Is Earth losing water?

Water flows endlessly between the ocean, atmosphere, and land. Earth's water is finite, meaning that the amount of water in, on, and above our planet does not increase or decrease.
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