why do we call gravity a force when all it is, is the result of binding energy waves?
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the answer you are looking for is n the words that you used ( force ) a push is a force , and so are many other ways that energy is transformed in to other forms of work ,force is kind of a name used to tell you what kind of transformation the energy is taking , or thats the way it was explained to me in school many moons ago
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The same 4 fundamental forces in the universe: Strong, weak, electromagnetic and gravity. Of course, it should be noted that we have made substantial progress into showing that the weak and electromagnetic forces are two aspects of the same force, and that even the strong force can be associated very closely with the electroweak force. There are many attempts to connect all 4 forces into one universal force law, but this effort is not yet complete and the results are not yet universally accepted. \n\nThere are some indications that we do not really understand gravity very well, because we do not understand its quantum aspects too well, and there is even evidence emergy for some sort of repulsive gravitational phenomenon from astronomical observations. \n\nThe discovery of any other forces would be quite surprising, and very big news.
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The word 'gravity' comes from the Latin word "gravitas", meaning 'weight'.  Gravity is the tendency of objects with mass to accelerate toward each other. Gravitation is one of the four fundamental interactions in nature, the other three being the electromagnetic force, the weak nuclear force, and the strong nuclear force. Gravitation is the weakest of these interactions, but acts over great distances and is always attractive.\n\nCheck these links.
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Weight is a unit measure of gravitational force.
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All mass produces gravity.  Ever massful particle, every atom exerts some gravitational force on other massful particles.\n\nPhysicists are still trying to produce the details how gravitational fields behave, theories of gravitons (the particles when mediate the field), etc.\n\nA short description of theories and current thinking is available here at Wikipedia:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity\n\nAnother good source of information would be to read "A Briefer History of Time" by Stephen Hawking.
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Gravity is not caused by magnets. It is caused by matter itself, but it only happens noticably when theres a LOT of matter together (the earth is a LOT of matter).\n\nWe dont really know why matter causes gravity. We cant even measure gravity waves, but we're trying.\n\nString theory is a mathematical system which tries to explain gravity. I dont understand any of it, but thats what people who want to understand gravity are studying.
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gravity only does work when something moves.  So if you have water behind a dam and gravity is pulling on it no work is being done.  \n\nYou can push as hard as you can on a wall and do no work, but pick up a pebble and do pleanty of work.\n\nWhen dam opens and the water falls gravity still exerts the same force but depending on how far the water falls it does a certian ammount of work.  \n\nGravity is the source of the energy.  Or what ever got the water behind the dam was.\n\nTake a 1 kg rock on the floor.  It has zero potential energy relative to the floor.  Raise the rock one meter and it has one joule of potential energy relative to the floor.  You picked up the rock.  You are the source of the potential energy.  Or you could say the chemical energy in the food you ate was the source.\n\nRelease the rock and gravity exerts  force on the rock over one meter for 1 joules.Gravity is the source of the Kenitic energy.\n\nIf it all seems like we're just making these names up, we are.  Or Newton, Watt and Joules did in order to study them.  So sometimes identifying the "source" of the energy seems arbitrary, but you just have to learn that the terms in physics have very specific uses and limits.\n\nIf your question is how does gravity exert the force on an object over the distance, no one knows.  If I throw a ball at your head, obviously I imparted the ball with kenitic energy and sent the energy through the ball into your head.\n\nBut if I opened up a trap door under your feet and you immediately fall, how did the Earth tell you to fall towards it?  We didn't see anything push or pull you.  You just fell through the hole.  No one really knows.  \n\nThere are lots of theories out there, one of the coolest and hardest to understand is Einstein's theory of General Relativity which says a mass (like ) Earth curves space, so objects which would normaly move straight past it, curve into it.
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There are two way to look at it.\nIn Relativity, gravity isn't thing itself just a bending of space. Just like a bend in the road is only a way to describe something about a road.\nIn Quantum Mechanics, gravity is actually made up of Bosons (particle carriers of force) called Gravitons. To date gravitons are purely theoretical since no one has manages to observe a graviton yet.\nWhile this may sounds weird, both are correct.
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Strickly speaking there are four fundamental forces: electromagnetic, gravity, the strong nuclear, and the weak nuclear force.\n\nOn the other hand, it has been shown that the electromagnetic and weak forces are two aspects of the same thing - sort of like how ice and water are two aspects of the same thing. And it has been shown that this electroweak force is the same as the strong nuclear force.\n\nIn other words, those three forces are really one force that we observe as different aspects.\n\nGravity has yet to be connected. String theories are one way being pursued to try and link all four forces together. I ten to think, and most physics people do, that gravity is related. \n\nBut if it isn't then we have : electroweak-strong and gravity as the two forces.
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The Begy atomic model. It eliminates the nedd for the quite unbelievable strong and weak nuclear forces. It also defines gravity as a force acting upon the universe rather than from within it. This reduces the forces in this universe to just one the electromagnetic force. Is this a unified field theory?\n\nWeb search, "Begy atomic model"
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I don't think anyone has. Some years ago, I read about this topic at a web site called weirdsience.com (or some such thing). The hyposthesis in that article was that wave energy (light, electrons, and so forth) push from all directions. However, only a certain group of wavelengths can fit between a fixed set of points, based on the separation distance. For example, fewer wavelengths can fit between the Earth and the Moon than can fit between either body and the rest of the Universe. Therefore, there are many more waves, hence much more energy, pushing the two bodies towards each other than pushing them apart. On other hand, there is some evidence that gravity is conveyed through a supposed graviton particle. But such a particle has not yet been observed. Short answer, gravity is still one of the major mysteries of physics.
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Gravity is also like another force. it follows Newton's 3rd law. Earth attracts us and we attract Earth.\n\nBut a = f/m. Since our mass is less, we move with greater acceleration. For earth, mass is huge and the effect is negligible.
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No energy source? What source of energy is needed? And the simple presence of mass causes gravitons. And these gravitons interact with one another. And proof, you need proof that gravity works? Dude go jump off of a building and see what happens!
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Gravity is a term to explain a phenomenon. The theory of gravity is a theory to explain a fact. The pull between bodies(known as gravity) is a fact.\n\nWe can measure this pull with a good degree of accuricy since the days of newton. Yet untill this moment we don't have a complete explanation as to why gravity occurs!\n\nNewton didn't really explain gravity, he just offered methods to measure its effect. Modern physics describe gravity as a result of the bend in the fabric of space-time.More theories will develop later.\nThat's what science is about, offering explanations, then making them better with time, then even better and so on. There is no best of final explanation ever, but there are always better ones that could be used to make life easier.
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The force of gravity preforms work by applying a force (weight) over a distance (the distance the object falls).  Energy is required to do work.  The energy required in order for gravity to do work on an object comes from the object's gravitational potential energy which it has inherently by virtue of being at some [non-infinite] distance away from another massive body.\n\nHow the object got to be at its given distance so as to obtain its gravitational potential energy is irrelevant as it only matters that it does have some potential energy which will be lost/converted as gravity does work.  The object could have been placed there by someone lifting it up against gravity, or the obiject could have always been seperated all the way back from the point of the formation of the universe, it does not matter.
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Although it has been stated that heat energy has no bearing on the force of gravity, the opposite is true.  The physics trilogy, E=mc2, m=E/c2 and (c2=E/m) expresses that the force of gravity must have an energy source.  The force of gravity is unable to exist by itself.  In that it performs work, it must have an energy source.  If this were not true, then this force must be being created in all matter at all times.  It is either an energy source or continual creation.  Hawking, in "A Brief History of Time" states on page 92, that as gravitational waves leave a mass they carry away some of the energy of that mass.  In order for our planet to perform the work it does, there is a continual expenditure of 0.00444 kg./sec of energy into gravitational waves.  The sun expends 665 lbs/sec.  \n\nhttp://timebones.blogspot.com  Check Archives, month of October for "The Formation and Collapse of a Gravitational Field".  It is easy reading and only a few pages.
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Every atom has gravitational forces, also known as the "VanderWaal force". This force is linearly related to the mass of the particle. As the mass grows (a cluster of particles, an object, a planet) the gravitational force gets larger, being the sum of all individual gravitational forces. The gravitational force only influences objects that have a mass of there own. So a ball is attracted by the Earth and the ball attracts the Earth.