According to General Relativity gravity is a curvature of spacetime so it has nothing to escape. It’s simply there.
I didn’t stay in physics long enough to understand fields, that’s for sure. But in my undergrad mind I had to deal with them in some way and finally just decided they were nothing more than a set of measurements made, or inferred to exist, at every point in space around some object that gave you the strength and direction of some force, a vector field, in other words. But there was no mass there or ever necessarily passing through that point. It was just some kind of influence on the fabric of space that emanated from an object and gave you a vector field at each point. And then the thought immediately pops up: like gravity, you mean? But, I understand: I’m definitely confused and things just aren’t very clear to me. My problem, not yours. Thanks!
“According to General Relativity gravity is a curvature of spacetime so it has nothing to escape. It’s simply there.”
Well said...
(.... if I understand the whole concept correctly.)
It’s equivalent to saying “Objects and locations on the equator can’t escape being on the equator, and return to the way they should be at the the poles of the Earth.”
Things on the equator, like phenomena in a black hole (including gravity), can’t, don’t, won’t and shouldn’t “escape” from being where and what they are.