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Is this how gravity really works?

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But it's no the very first theory about gravity in the world. It's not a theory or a hypothesis. It's an idea. A quite rambling and very difficult to prove idea.

Seriously: what would an experiment to show this look like?

Rub a strain of cotton and see if when you`re finger moves closer and closer, the speed of the attraction turns faster
 
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Rub a strain of cotton and see if when you`re finger moves closer and closer, the speed of the attraction turns faster

That's. Not. Gravity. That's friction.

And you mean a string of cotton, not a strain of cotton. Or this a language thing between English and Norwegian?
 
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That's. Not. Gravity. That's friction.

And you mean a string of cotton, not a strain of cotton. Or this a language thing between English and Norwegian?

I disagree, you add energy when you rub the "string" of cotton, so the nucleons starts to spin energy around it`s core. Like a magnet. I always wondered how a magnet worked, it`s where from I got the idea. Sorry my bad english yes :)
 
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No glory for coming up with the very first theory about gravity in the world
Great glory for such an achievement; only embarrassment for your insistence on basing your ideas upon easily correctible ignorance. The internet abounds with quality explanations on gravity, pitched at all kinds of educational levels. There is no excuse for not making use of these to correct your misunderstanding and missing knowledge.
 
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I disagree, you add energy when you rub the "string" of cotton, so the nucleons starts to spin energy around it`s core. Like a magnet. I always wondered how a magnet worked, it`s where from I got the idea. Sorry my bad english yes :)
Gravity is not magnetism.
 
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I disagree, you add energy when you rub the "string" of cotton, so the nucleons starts to spin energy around it`s core. Like a magnet. I always wondered how a magnet worked, it`s where from I got the idea. Sorry my bad english yes :)

Yes, and that energy is called friction. That's not gravity, it's specifically called friction. A string of cotton has no core. In fact, the string of cotton between the fingers IS the core, but it does not work in the same way as a magnet.

Magnets work because of alignments of electrons, which either attract or repulse. It's quantum mechanics, which honestly makes my head hurt.
 
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Curvature of space hasn`t been proven, I think. This "fabric" of space they talk about, it isn`t proven. It`s only been speculated about because something holds galaxies together
Year(s)Measurement / ExperimentObservableWhy This Is Curvature-Only
1915Mercury perihelion advanceExcess orbital precessionRequires geodesic deviation from curved spacetime
1919Solar light deflectionAngular bending of starlightNull geodesics deviate only if spacetime is curved
1964–1975Shapiro time delayRadar signal delayLight propagation altered by curved geometry
1967–presentBinary pulsarsOrbital decay & relativistic timingStrong-field curvature + nonlinear GR dynamics
1970s–presentVLBI light deflectionPrecise solar light bendingDirect measurement of spacetime curvature
1980s–presentLunar Laser RangingTidal orbital deviationsMeasures tidal curvature, not potential
2004–2011Gravity Probe BGyroscope precessionSpin transport in curved spacetime
2015–presentLIGO / Virgo / KAGRAGravitational wavesPropagating spacetime curvature itself
2016–presentLAGEOS / LARESFrame-dragging precessionCurvature from spacetime rotation
2019–presentEvent Horizon TelescopeBlack hole shadowStrong-field curvature near horizon
2020sPulsar Timing ArraysStochastic GW backgroundLarge-scale curvature fluctuations
 
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Year(s)Measurement / ExperimentObservableWhy This Is Curvature-Only
1915Mercury perihelion advanceExcess orbital precessionRequires geodesic deviation from curved spacetime
1919Solar light deflectionAngular bending of starlightNull geodesics deviate only if spacetime is curved
1964–1975Shapiro time delayRadar signal delayLight propagation altered by curved geometry
1967–presentBinary pulsarsOrbital decay & relativistic timingStrong-field curvature + nonlinear GR dynamics
1970s–presentVLBI light deflectionPrecise solar light bendingDirect measurement of spacetime curvature
1980s–presentLunar Laser RangingTidal orbital deviationsMeasures tidal curvature, not potential
2004–2011Gravity Probe BGyroscope precessionSpin transport in curved spacetime
2015–presentLIGO / Virgo / KAGRAGravitational wavesPropagating spacetime curvature itself
2016–presentLAGEOS / LARESFrame-dragging precessionCurvature from spacetime rotation
2019–presentEvent Horizon TelescopeBlack hole shadowStrong-field curvature near horizon
2020sPulsar Timing ArraysStochastic GW backgroundLarge-scale curvature fluctuations
And @Kjelete any decent documentary would have told you about many of those things, including how they were measured.
 
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Year(s)Measurement / ExperimentObservableWhy This Is Curvature-Only
1915Mercury perihelion advanceExcess orbital precessionRequires geodesic deviation from curved spacetime
1919Solar light deflectionAngular bending of starlightNull geodesics deviate only if spacetime is curved
1964–1975Shapiro time delayRadar signal delayLight propagation altered by curved geometry
1967–presentBinary pulsarsOrbital decay & relativistic timingStrong-field curvature + nonlinear GR dynamics
1970s–presentVLBI light deflectionPrecise solar light bendingDirect measurement of spacetime curvature
1980s–presentLunar Laser RangingTidal orbital deviationsMeasures tidal curvature, not potential
2004–2011Gravity Probe BGyroscope precessionSpin transport in curved spacetime
2015–presentLIGO / Virgo / KAGRAGravitational wavesPropagating spacetime curvature itself
2016–presentLAGEOS / LARESFrame-dragging precessionCurvature from spacetime rotation
2019–presentEvent Horizon TelescopeBlack hole shadowStrong-field curvature near horizon
2020sPulsar Timing ArraysStochastic GW backgroundLarge-scale curvature fluctuations
Then there are the Hipparcos and Gaia missions which accurately mapped star positions.
This required corrections caused by the bending of star light due to space time curvature around the Sun.
 
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I tried to find out some years ago how gravity really works, why it attracts other objects:

I think it`s like if you take a magnet, it absorbs energy and it sends it in orbits around the core. Like waves, but everything within the wave get`s pulled in to the center, because the gravity-waves penerates your body or object. The closer to to core, the shorter the wave is and you get pulled in-wards faster and faster as the wave get`s shorter.

In empty air, vacuum, there`s no air above it to push it down, so it falls more or less freely. Do you get my idea, the gravity-ripples penetrates the body and psychially pulls it to the center of the magnet:

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I was originally made fun of for this idea, they ridiculed me. But you can actually observe that if you rub a strain of cotton for example, the closer your finger is to the strain of cotton, the faster it pulls into your finger. I made a basic picture to show
Apparently no gravity is just a continuous free fall with no landing hence , floating. In other words, breaking a barrier. So gravity is not having the ability to break that barrier hence, grounded.
 
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