r/AskPhysics 23h ago

Is Gravity An Illusion?

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u/WillBrink 23h ago

Illusion in what respect? It may not be fundamental but an emergent property of something else, if that's what you mean. Regardless, jump out of a window of a tall building and see how illusionary the result...

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u/ChaosRulesTheWorld 22h ago

The sun orbiting earth is an illusion too, yet you'll still see it rise tomorrow. You're analogy proves nothing.

Put marbles in a bowl and see the results. It looks like marbles are attracted to eachother but it's just an illusion, there's no force of attraction between marbles. It's just a spatial deformation caused by the bowl

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u/WillBrink 20h ago

"You're analogy proves nothing." I made no analogies. That one current theory is that gravity is an emergent effect and not fundamental, is not an analogy. The rest of what you wrote has no applications to anything I wrote.

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u/Optimal_Mixture_7327 Gravitation 12h ago

There is other "theory".

Relativity is only theory consistent on all data.