On Dec 15, 11:28*pm, "Darla" wrote:
"jughead" wrote in message

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On Dec 15, 6:17 am, "HVAC" wrote:

Stop thinking of gravity as a force. *It's an effect.

Agreed. So what is the actual, literal mechanism *causing* the
effect?

General Relativity very eloquently describes the effects, but remains
mute on the causal mechanism itself (and it ain't 'particle-
antiparticle pairs' popping into and out of "nothing").

oc

In a sense this is correct.
Quarks are not quite particles in a similar sense to the thinking that
viruses are not quite living things.

In the case of quarks, they comprise particles.
Gravitation is caused by the quark-antiquark pairs that are in essence the
"missing link" between energy and matter.

And just because gravitation, as described by Einstein, is the "effect" of
space's reaction to matter, this is not meant to construe that gravitation
is not a force.


Of course we might digress to philosophically ponder what the term
"force" really means.


Gravitation is both the weakest and the most powerful force in the universe
depending upon the material level of its application, i.e., the density of
the matter to which space is reacting.


So true! So true.

Double-A