Imagine I threw something in space with a certain force, will it keep going forever in the direction thrown since there is no resistance? Or will it stop depending on the force?
Also suppose so much time has passed will the object still be floating (still moving a little bit here and there) or will it stand exactly still.
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yes, there is no air resistance to stop them from moving. But they can be affected extremely slowly by solar wind or radiation which pushes on objects but the force is extremely small.
But gravity will affect them, everything that has mass also has gravity, planets, asteroids, even you have gravity and your gravity is pulling the earth towards you, and the earth pulls you towards it but the earth gravity is a lot stronger than your gravity because its a lot heavier.
Your gravity also pulls the space station towards you, and the space station pulls you towards it, but the force is extremely small. Your gravity also pulls the moon, but again, the effect is extremely small and the moon pulls you towards it, and also pulls the earth towards it, this is why we have waves. Its the moon pulling the water towards it forming waves.
Everything has its own gravity as long as it has mass and is affecting other objects with mass, if 2 small tennis balls are placed in space no other force added, after a long period of time they will start to drift towards each other this is how planets and stars are formed, dust has mass that creates gravity and attracts other small dust particles creating small rocks that have more mass and also a stronger gravity attracting more small rocks and dust forming asteroids that then form planets, if there is too much mass the gravity is extremely strong, strong enough to combine atoms and create nuclear fission which creates a lot of heat and energy turning the “planet” into a star, if its a lot of mass in one place, the gravity is so strong causing a singularity, which is a black hole. We are still studying them, there are many theories about it and we can’t see them in action because nothing escapes them not even light, so we can’t find information about what’s inside and only what is on its edge. There are theories like the gravity was so big it ripped a hole in the space fabric, like a hole in a bath tub or sink sucking everything in. Or that they are wormholes, or parallel universes. we just can’t know for sure because we can’t look inside.
And also gravity is not a force, but its an effect caused by mass because it deform space, though there are still experiments trying to find a particle carrying the force of gravity because any other fundamental force is carried by a particle, but gravity seems to be the only one that has no carrying particle, so its a theory that is not an actual force, but an effect of something else, that being the deformation of space. Like putting 2 heavy objects close to each other in your bed, your bed starts to deform a little bit and those 2 things get together not because they are attracted to each other but because the bed deforms creating a slight dent that makes those things get closer together
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