• Question: what element in gravity makes the pull factor of gravity?

    Asked by ChrismdTGS to Connor, Jillian, Lidunka, Sarah, Steven on 15 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Lidunka Vocadlo

      Lidunka Vocadlo answered on 15 Jun 2015:

      @ChrismdTGS it is not an element, it is mass (and how far apart any two objects are). The more massive the objects, and the nearer they are to each other, the bigger the gravitational pull. Some elements have a greater mass than others, so will have a higher gravitational pull for the same volume of material.

    • Photo: Jillian Scudder

      Jillian Scudder answered on 17 Jun 2015:

      The intensity of gravity depends on how much mass you have in how small of a region. Gravity can be thought of as a distortion in space-time, so if you have a very massive object in a small region, you’ve pulled spacetime further from its normal shape, and gravity ‘feels’ stronger there. If you have little mass, or the mass is very spread out, the gravity will feel weaker, even though it’s the same force!

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