How does gravity actually work, Veeky Forums?

Like this.

Or this.

Okay if that were true why doesn't the moon smash into us. It would eventually fall towards us if it were like that.

The Moon is gradually receding from the Earth, at a rate of about 4 cm per year. This is caused by a transfer of Earth's rotational momentum to the Moon's orbital momentum as tidal friction slows the Earth's rotation. That increasing distance means a longer orbital period, or month, as well. As the Earth slows in rotation, this effect will lesson, and when rotation finally matches that of the moon, the moon will begin to fall as you suggest, finally being crushed into a ring that will orbit the Earth.

The applied law: Every point mass attracts every single point mass by a force pointing along the line intersecting both points. The force is directly proportional to the product of the two masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the point masses.

The tested theory: General relativity describes gravity not as a force, but as a consequence of the curvature of spacetime caused by the uneven distribution of mass/energy.

The mysterious mechanic: Gravitons are expected to be massless spin-2 tensor bosons. The spin follows from the fact that the source of gravitation is the stress–energy tensor, a second-order tensor (compared to electromagnetism's spin-1 photon). Additionally, it can be shown that any massless spin-2 field would give rise to a force indistinguishable from gravitation. There is no complete theory of gravitons due to an outstanding mathematical problem with renormalization.

Conclusion: We don't fucking know... But we can accurately predict the effects with the established theories and laws.

But space is literally comprised of nothingness. How can sheer nothingness bend like that?

Is it multidimensional?

Gravity constantly pulls on the moon causing it to fall towards us, but it's momentum causes it to continually miss us

Consider Newton's cannon:
I fire a cannon perpendicular to the Earth's surface, it gets pulled toward the center of Earth and eventually hits the ground.
Each time I add more powder to the cannon, the cannon fires a little further, until further is the starting point of the cannon ball. The cannon ball is now considered in orbit.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton's_cannonball

Gravity does not exist, it is various quantities and QUALITIES of magnetism. The same goes for light which is why the speed of light can be slowed down with magnetism and mass. You have to understand how magnetic field work before you can comprehend it all. Basically it is a force that exerts out in a torus shape, much like an atom, a galaxy and most likely our entire universe(there's more to it like precession angles and whatnot). Gather enough magnetic material together in a mass and you have a voidance/distortion of the dielectric plane(the force outside of a magnetic field). It works this way so that there is no energy created nor destroyed.
Newtons first law does not exist because no object is EVER at rest and if it were it would literally blow a hole in the universe and creates its own. This is because we are all traveling far faster than comprehension and stopping a mass of something that exerts a magnetic field....think of popping a balloon. This is why absolute zero is impossible to create and also why space is not a complete vacuum(and therefore not absolute zero).

forgot to add video

youtu.be/9EPlyiW-xGI?t=20m12s

>But space is literally comprised of nothingness. How can sheer nothingness bend like that?
Well, while it doesn't matter from a GR perspective, space isn't nothing. In QM it's instead another energy level, full of potentials. So you can kinda generalize and say that space-time and matter-energy are a continuum of the same thing.

Additionally, all the matter and energy in the universe is unified through fields of force and interact through them. Everything with mass is united through the higgs field (among others). As the field is interacted with it "warps", and the rate of interaction between objects changes depending on the 'depth' of the warps as the other fields are in turn forced to warp as the interactions are displaced. Thus we say space-time is warped by mass.

I'm probably spreading some misnomers here, in the end the exact details a still mysterious, even if the predicted results check out.

Electric universe theory creates far more holes than it closes. It also predicts comets are actually balls of plasma, but as we saw with Rosetta's probe landing on one, this is clearly not the case.

It predicted one thing that ended up being a solid object, but so what? It's trajectory is still influenced by magnetism. Also what you stated about the universe being united by fields and forces is explained by magnetism because it is the only force observed that demonstrates a measurable and warp-able force.

Its trajectory is more easily accounted for by gravity without adding new properties to electromagnetism that would require balls of plasma being flying about throughout the solar system, that apparently aren't there.

Further, the radio emissions predicted aren't there, causing even Alfvén to drop the idea it's all sourced in. It also tends to rely on this idea that something small looks like something big, thus it must be created by the same mechanism, and, in the same vain of creationism, is often used in attacks against dated science (such as attacking the sun's g-mode cycle while ignoring the discovery of p-mode). It further more or less requires a basic inconsistency in physics from one area of the universe to another. The current main advocate, Donald E. Scott, is also a complete nutcase that tells outright lies about past and present scientific theories to defend his case, so that doesn't much help either.