How gravity works? How can some particle go up to and grab hold of an atom and go… “here, buddy, come over this way with me, opposite to the orientation I was travelling”?

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How gravity works? How can some particle go up to and grab hold of an atom and go… “here, buddy, come over this way with me, opposite to the orientation I was travelling”?

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That’s not how gravity works.

The massive object (actually any object with massenergy because E=mC^2 ), curves the space around it. This curvature causes anything (light or particle) that wanders by to take on a new definition of “go in a straight line”, which looks curved to outside observers.