Friday, 20 February 2015

general relativity - Why gravity is an attractive force?



Why gravity is an attractive force?





One may say that it is because of space time curvature but General Relativity is built on this law: $\displaystyle G \frac{m_1 \times m_2}{r^2}$ (To be more precise, it is derived from it's potentiel form known as Gauss's law for gravity that can be written like this: $\nabla \cdot g = - 4\pi Gp $). So GR can't explain why gravity is attractive. General Relativity only explains how gravity occurs in terms of space time.




Another may stick with the Quantum theory stating that gravitons are responsible for the force of gravity, but why a massless particle with spin 2 will exchange positive momentum?




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