I did'nt understand what gravity is. After reading this, I don't understand what "influenced" means. This article is muddying the waters and confusing the crap out of me. When I hit a nail with a hammer, I know I influenced the nail. Tell me exactly how these particles are influencing each other without actual contact, to create gravity.
An analogy: THIS thread on Free Republic...
Maybe the idea is that the universe is crammed with a network of... something. Something that science doesn’t know about and whose interactions with physical objects that science does know about does not have to conform to the known behavior of these physical objects. It wouldn’t be quite an “ether.” It wouldn’t need to be “supernatural” in the literal sense, but might be difficult to distinguish from such an entity.
In my mind, gravity depresses the ‘fabric’ of space-time, like Einstein says. Every particle that has ‘mass’ does so to the limits of its mass. Two particles of equal mass do twice as much. Therfore they add together and join in the depression force.
Think of a universe that has only two hydrogen atoms in it, separated by a billion light years. Eventually, those two atoms will meet, or at least orbit around their common center of mass........