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Old 11-18-2007, 10:02 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Personally, I remain unconvinced that gravity is a "fundamental force." Forces affect matter whereas gravity is an effect that matter has on space-time. There is no mediating particle required for matter to curve space-time. I believe that the error is in even trying to connect gravity to the three fundamental forces.
The problem with gravity is that it's so much weaker than all the other forces. The fact that the electromatic forces, which extends to preventing matter [or particles thereof] from passing through matter, can stop gravity from causing those two masses from doing precisely that, even if one object is a neutron star. That's a huge difference in force magnitudes. Some specialation- and that's really at it is at this point, is that gravity is a hyperdimsional phenomenon, which readily bleeds across all "branes" in a multiverse.
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