Indeed gravity does not suck...
and there is no such thing as a force we describe as attraction..
gravity pushes..
it is a universal pressure created by all the particles travelling from everywhere to everywhere else...and when one embraces such a concept as a fundamental truth we will find we do not need dark matter and the force they seek currently described as dark energy is indeed the system of gravity that controls the Universe...it pushes..and in evidence I present the propostion that it is impossible to hold a galaxy in place if one were to enlist the mythical force of attraction..only push can perform such a feat...either that or one has to conceed that gravity travells faster than light..which it can not I suspect.
General Relativity is simply geometry, (think of it as a pythagorean?? formula wiht an added dimention..time...) that seeks to record how space is affected by matter whereas it is matter that is effected by space..sadly General Relativity offers no reason why space "bends" but I suggest it is bent by a system of particle pressure that general relativity seeks to quantify but pays no recognition to its existence..
General relativity presents a prospect that space is bent in subserviance to the math
..what it really is and a physical explanation as to why is absent..and the explanation..could be
that space is in fact a sea of particles travelling in all directions at c and providing a resultant pressure ...
this idea is not new and goes back a ways (Le Sage 1745) but it is clear that Newton was familar with the premise and when pressed for the make up of the force of gravity offerred as a good scientist of the day would have been bound to do ..he said it was indeed the force of God...Dr A did not contridict this notwithstanding he revolutionised the rest of Newton's approach to gravity with general relativity... so it seems that science has left that part of gravity in the same place Newton and Dr A left it....the force of gravity is left with God..we have the Sums but we dare not take away the power
I have been sailing (sailed a boat from Brisbane to Balina..great adventure) and been observing and missed this
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alex