I do not believe that gravity affects in the manner that we think it does. I do not believe that it causes an elliptical orbit of planets. Like the orbits that we have observed and measured for hundreds of years. I believe it to be an illusion and nature has been laughing at us.
I think our orbit is a helix with two rotations at the same time. Two perpendicular rotations. Imagine a clock face, only replace the hours with months, with Dec. at 12:00 o'clock, with the months backwards, and counterclockwise.
Mar. at 9, June at 6 and Sept at 3. This clock has one hand which has a length of 1.5 millions miles. At the end of this hand is the earth. It rotates once around the clock in one year. The earth's axis remains vertical on the clock all year. The center of the clock, and the Mar. and Sept. of the clock always intersect on the sun's equatorial plane. The center of the clock is always at 93 million miles from the suns center. So the sun's radius and the clock's radius each make one rotation in one year. They are perpendicular rotations. This configuration is a one turn closed helix. Any one turn helix shadowed on a screen will appear as a ellipse. Because it removes the depth or 3D component. Vary the small radius, to adjust the flatness of the projected "ellipse". That's how nature does it.....check out the other plants. Subtract the perigee from the apogee....that gives you the clock diameter for that planet.
Elliptical orbits can not be conserved. That's why our solar system is relatively clean of elliptical debris. Many have doubted my premise, but I believe the images of satellite moons orbiting in volcanic/geyser debris have given favor for this idea.
It's a perpendicular interaction of attraction and momentum.
But the question remains, what causes the attraction? I don't believe that gravity is a fundamental property. I think that a gravity field only comes from a dipole or bonded matter. When a dipole forms, there are several un-equal motions and areas to a dipole configuration. As a matter of fact, the ONLY equal parameter they have in common is the electric field potential. The momentum and energy of the proton is 1800 times more than the electron. The motion of the proton is right handed and the electron is left handed. Even though the electric potential is equal, the positive field is much denser than the negative field......the negative occupies much more area than the proton. And the proton has more mass and inertia.......that means the electron does almost all the displacement. If we assume that gravity's attractive force...is to equalize a parameter......we have several here to track down.
The dynamic of gravity is just the opposite of the dynamic of charge. In the gravity dynamic, the configuration prevents the fall, or counteracts the "IN" direction. The whole function is to counter the attractive force. In the charge dynamic, the configuration prevents the expansion, due to charge self-repulsion.
The whole function is to counter the repulsive "out" force.
Science never teaches or realizes how important the in and out forces are. Or how they act. The reason that light always has the same velocity........is because it is a perpendicular acceleration that results in a constant velocity. Frame Velocity does not affect perpendicularity. Even at c speed, a perpendicular is still a perpendicular.....therefore the same apparent velocity. Don't think of light as having a velocity........think of it as an area acceleration. It's not like the velocity of a marble. The area acceleration is constantly losing density, or "mass" if you prefer. A marble does not.
Perpendiculars are common to all frames at all velocities.