If something is inbetween two objects how do the particles know there is something bigger behind the object it needs to attract to?
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A good analogy for gravity is putting a bowling ball on the center of a trampoline
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the bowling ball sinks into the ‘sheet’ and any other balls you put on will roll towards it.
No matter where you put other balls – near to the bowling or farther away – they’ll always roll towards the bowling ball.
and also if you have lots of balls inbetween the bowling ball and the edge of the trampoline, they all still roll towards the bowling ball at the center.
so – with the huge sun at the center of our solar system, all the planets are affected by it no matter whats in between.
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