how does gravity in a vacuum work is there a particle force or field that pulls on the affected object how does it reach across a vacuum where there is no touching matter.

Question

.So the space station is orbiting in our planet I understand that it’s being pulled down and its current inclination of orbit at the same time to where it’s technically in constant free fall and I also understand that Newton’s first law is an object in motion will stay out motion until force is acted upon it. But when I think about gravity I can’t seem to understand how it pulls does gravity have a particle or a link to the object it’s pulling in some way?

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Answer 1

What we perceive as “gravity” is the mass of objects around us actually causing space to warp.

Imagine space as a trampoline. You put a marble in the middle of it, it doesn’t warp all that much. Now put a bowling ball in place of the marble and you get more warping. Then get crazy and put a boulder in the middle of it. That’s crazy amounts of warping.

That’s gravity in a nutshell. There’s no gravity particle or substance that needs to transmit gravity because it’s changing space itself.