Question: how is gravity made?

Angus Cook answered on 15 Jun 2016:

That’s an excellent question, and really, REALLY, when you get RIGHT down to it… we don’t know.

We DO know that gravity (or a gravitational field, to get fancy about it) is created by all objects with mass. Even small things create a gravitational field.

The reason we don’t really feel the gravity of most other objects is that the strength of gravity depends on two things:
1) How big the object is (we feel more gravity from the Earth than we do a table).
2) How close to the object we are (we feel the Earth’s gravity more than we do the gravity of the Sun or Moon).

We also know a lot more about it, which is a bit complicated to get into here (it can effect time, and gravity can act like a wave travelling through space), but the bit we don’t know is how it fits in with things like light, magnets and the atomic and sub-atomic side of things.